Krysty Wilson-Cairns

Krysty Norma Lesley Wilson-Cairns (born May 26th 1987) is a Scottish screenwriter. Born and raised in Glasgow, she studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Film and Television School. During her teenage years, she was a runner on television programmes including the detective programme Taggart. Her script for the unproduced science fiction thriller Aether made the 2014 Black List and led to a staff writer role on the television programme Penny Dreadful. Her feature film debut was the screenplay for the Sam Mendes-directed 2019 war film 1917. She co-wrote it with Mendes and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.
She and Edgar Wright wrote Last Night in Soho (2021), a film that features Sandie Shaw's songs "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" and "Puppet on a String".
== External links ==
* Krysty Wilson-Cairns at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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