Ann Peacock is a South African-born writer based in the United States. After teaching Law in her native South Africa, she moved to the United States and started a screenwriting career at after doing an Extension Course in screenwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography Peacock was born in 1951 and raised in South Africa. She was educated at the University of Cape Town, where she obtained her law degree, and taught in the faculty of Law.
Her screenwriting career began after she moved to the United States, writing her first screenplay June the 16th as a screenwriting student inspired by a family experience with internal resistance to apartheid. She wrote the HBO film A Lesson Before Dying (1999), for which she won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. In 2000, she adapted the Langston Hughes short story Cora Unashamed into a TV movie of the same name for PBS' The American Collection. In July 2002, Walden Media hired Peacock as the screenwriter for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, for which she was later nominated for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form).
Her screenwriting credits also include In My Comedy (2004), Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007), Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), and The Killing Room (2009) She won the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for her screenplay The First Grader. In 2015, she adapted Alice Hoffman's book The Dovekeepers into a television miniseries of the same name for CBS.
She has a son who was engaged in the anti-apartheid movement.
Filmography Year Title 1999 A Lesson Before Dying 2000 Cora Unashamed 2004 In My Country 2005 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2007 Pictures of Hollis Woods 2008 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 2008 Nights in Rodanthe 2009 The Killing Room 2011 The First Grader 2015 The Dovekeepers
Awards YearTitleAwardResultRef.1999 A Lesson Before DyingPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Movie2006The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeHugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)2012The First GraderNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture
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