Paul Laverty: Biography in Details
Who is Paul Laverty?
Paul Laverty is a lawyer and screenwriter, best known for his emotional screenplays fired by a robust sense of injustice that can verge upon didacticism.
He had a long and fruitful partnership with Ken Loach. His screenplay had a unique feature that shot through with bittersweet comedy and occasionally romance.
Paul Laverty- Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, Education
Paul Laverty was born in 1957, in Calcutta, West Bengal India. He was born to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. However, his parents’ names and other details are not available at the moment.
We do not have any information regarding the famous screenwriter’s siblings. Even though Paul was born in Calcutta India, he holds British nationality and has a mixed Irish-Scottish ethnicity.
Now talking about his educational background, he completed his schooling at Souls School in Wigtown where he grew up.
Later, Paul Laverty obtained a philosophy degree at Gregorian University in Rome. And he obtained his law degree at Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow.
Paul Laverty- Professional Life, Careers
Paul Laverty’s career started in the mid-1980s. He went to Nicaragua and started living there where he worked for a Nicaraguan domestic human rights organization that provided hard evidence of human rights abuses during the war between the elected Nicaraguan Government and the United state-backed “Contras”.
As a lawyer, he traveled to war zones and obtained corroborated eyewitness accounts which were passed on to international human rights organizations.
He made a debut in his writing career with Carla’s song in 1996, with director Ken Loach. He continued writing the screenplay for Ken Loach, My Name is Joe(1998), Bread and Roses(2000), and Sweet Sixteen(2002) are his famous works.
Paul Laverty won the best screenplay award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. After the successful collaboration with Ken, they created The Wind That Shakes The Barly in 2006 which addresses the Irish War of Independence in the early 1920s, and won the 2006 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
His comedy genre movie Looking For Eric was released in 2006 and Route Irish, a film about mercenaries in Iraq released in 2010.
Paul Laverty- Net worth, Salary
65 years old Paul Laverty, a famous Screenwriter, and lawyer has a $ 1 million- @5 million net worth in 2023.
Paul Laverty- Rumors, Controversy
Paul Laverty has kept himself away from controversy. In the present day and previously in past, there are no rumors on the internet.
Body Features- Height, Weight
There is no information available about the famous screenwriter Paul Laverty’s body measurement, so for now all we can do is guess looking at his images and public appearances.
65 years old Paul looks fit and young. He has a pretty impressive height. Paul keeps his hair bald and clean-shaven.
Social Media
The famous screenwriter Paul Laverty is not active on social media sites. After searching a lot we couldn’t find him on any social media sites. It seems as if he prefers to keep his personal life private.