Emma Donoghue

Known for: Writing
Born: October 1, 1969
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland

Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Filmography

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H Is for Hawk 2025
Writer
The Wonder 2022
Executive Producer, Novel, Writer
Room 2015
Novel, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Making “Room” 2016
as Self
Immaculate Conceptions: Inside a Lesbian Baby Boom 2007
Director
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders 2001
as Pamela Taylor

Credits from TMDB.