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Krysty Wilson-Cairns is a Scottish screenwriter born on the 26th of May 1987 in Glasgow. She co-wrote the 2019 war film 1917 with director Sam Mendes and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Krysty Wilson-Cairns co-wrote the screenplay for the 2019 war film 1917 with Sam Mendes. She also co-wrote Last Night in Soho with Edgar Wright in 2021 and wrote The Good Nurse in 2022, an adaptation of Charles Graeber's non-fiction book about serial killer nurse Charles Cullen.
Krysty Wilson-Cairns' breakthrough came in 2014 when her unproduced science fiction script Aether made the top ten of the Black List, an annual survey of the most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Screenwriter John Logan read the script and hired her as a staff writer on Penny Dreadful in 2015.
Krysty Wilson-Cairns received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for her work on 1917. She shared the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film with director Sam Mendes.
Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Sam Mendes first met through Penny Dreadful, where Mendes served as an executive producer. He read her treatment for a separate project, The Good Nurse, was impressed, and suggested they develop a film together, which eventually became 1917.
Krysty Wilson-Cairns is writing a crime drama series for Amazon Studios based on journalist Evan Ratliff's book The Mastermind, about programmer-turned-drug-cartel boss Paul Le Roux. She is also writing a Cleopatra biopic directed by Denis Villeneuve, based on Stacy Schiff's biography Cleopatra: A Life.