Richard Curtis - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!
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Updated on January 08, 2026
Explore Richard Curtis net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Producer, writer, and director. He worked on films such as Notting Hill, Love Actually, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Bridget Jones. In this article, we will discover how old is Richard Curtis? Who is Richard Curtis dating now & how much money does Richard Curtis have?
| Name | Richard Curtis |
| First Name | Richard |
| Last Name | Curtis |
| Occupation | Director |
| Birthday | November 8 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place of Birth | Wellington |
| Home Town | Wellington Region |
| Birth Country | New Zealand |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Jamie Curtis |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Scarlett Curtis, Scarlett Rachel Anne Curtis, Spike Curtis, Charlie Curtis, Jake Curtis |
Richard Curtis Biography
Richard Curtis is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on November 8, 1956 in Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand. He was the director of Love Actually with He directed the film Love Actually with Hugh Grant..
Curtis attended Papplewick School, Ascot, Berkshire (as did his younger brother Jamie). For a short period in the 1970s, Curtis lived in Warrington, Cheshire, where he attended Appleton Grammar School (now Bridgewater High School), before he won a scholarship to Harrow School, where, as head boy, he abolished fagging. He achieved a first-class Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. At the University of Oxford, Curtis met and began working with Rowan Atkinson, after they both joined the scriptwriting team of the Etceteras revue, part of the Experimental Theatre Club. He appeared in the company’s “After Eights” at the Oxford Playhouse in May 1976.
Collaborating with Rowan Atkinson in the Oxford Revue, he appeared alongside him at his breakthrough Edinburgh Fringe show. As a result of this, Curtis was commissioned to co-write the BBC Radio 3 series The Atkinson People with Atkinson in 1978, which was transmitted in 1979. He then began to write comedy for film and TV. He was a regular writer on the BBC comedy series Not the Nine O’Clock News, where he wrote many of the show’s songs with Howard Goodall and many satirical sketches, often with Rowan Atkinson. Curtis was the co-writer with Philip Pope of the Hee Bee Gee Bees’ single “Meaningless Songs (In Very High Voices)” released in 1980 to parody the style of a series of Bee Gees’ disco hits. In 1984 and 1985, Curtis wrote material for ITV’s satirical puppet show Spitting Image.
He married Emma Freud.
He is the author of How to be Your Own Literary Agent.
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956), is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director. One of Britain’s most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films, among them Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019). He is also known for the drama War Horse (2011), and for having co-written the hit sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean, and The Vicar of Dibley. His early career saw him write material for the BBC’s Not the Nine O’Clock News and ITV’s Spitting Image.
Richard Curtis Net Worth
Richard is one of the richest Director from New Zealand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Curtis's net worth $30 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
He was also a writer for The Atkinson People.
| Net Worth | $30 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Director |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Curtis achieved his breakthrough success with the romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. The 1994 film, starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, was produced on a limited budget by the British production company Working Title Films. Curtis chose Mike Newell to direct the film after watching his TV film Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill. Four Weddings and a Funeral proved to be the top-grossing British film in history at that time. It made an international star of Grant, and Curtis’ Oscar nomination for the script catapulted him to prominence (though the Oscar went to Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary for Pulp Fiction). The film was also nominated for Best Picture, but lost to Forrest Gump.
In 1994, Curtis created and co-wrote The Vicar of Dibley for comedian Dawn French, which was a great success. In an online poll conducted in 2004 Britain’s Best Sitcom, The Vicar of Dibley was voted the third-best sitcom in British history and Blackadder the second-best, making Curtis the only screenwriter to have created two shows within the poll’s top 10 programmes.
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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Curtis had by then already begun writing feature films. His first was The Tall Guy in 1989. The romantic comedy starred Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson and was produced by Working Title films. The TV movie Bernard and the Genie followed in 1991.
Who is Richard Curtis Dating?
According to our records, Richard Curtis is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Richard Curtis’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Richard Curtis. You may help us to build the dating records for Richard Curtis!Curtis’ next film was also for Working Title, which has remained his artistic home ever since. 1997’s Bean brought Mr. Bean to the big screen and was a huge hit around the world. He continued his association with Working Title writing the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, which broke the record set by Four Weddings and a Funeral to become the top-grossing British film. The story of a lonely travel bookstore owner who falls in love with the world’s most famous movie star was directed by Roger Michell.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Richard Curtis height 5 ft 11 in Richard weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 5 ft 11 in |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
First with Atkinson, and later with Ben Elton, Curtis then wrote the Blackadder series from 1983 to 1989, each season focusing upon a different era in British history. Atkinson played the lead throughout, but Curtis remains the only person to have been a writer for every episode of Blackadder. The pair continued their collaboration with the comedy series Mr. Bean, which ran from 1990 to 1995.
Curtis followed this in 2004 with work as co-writer on Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the sequel to Bridget Jones’s Diary. Curtis then wrote the screenplay to The Girl in the Café, a television film directed by David Yates and produced by the BBC and HBO as part of the Make Poverty History campaign’s Live 8 efforts in 2005. The film stars Bill Nighy as a civil servant and Kelly Macdonald as a young woman he falls in love with at a fictional G8 summit in Iceland. Macdonald’s character pushes him to ask whether the developed countries of the world cannot do more to help the most impoverished. The film was timed to air just before the Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005. It received three Emmy Awards in 2006, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie, Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Kelly Macdonald, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special trophy for Curtis himself. Curtis said of Yates’ direction that he made “a much more beautiful film, and a surprising film and a better film than I could possibly have made.”
Facts & Trivia
Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in New Zealand. Richard Curtis celebrates birthday on November 8 of every year.
Curtis together with Lenny Henry are co-founders and co-creators of Comic Relief and Red Nose Day. Curtis is also a founder of Make Poverty History. He organised the Live 8 concerts with Bob Geldof to publicise poverty, particularly in Africa, and pressure G8 leaders to adopt his proposals for ending it. He has written of his work in The Observer in the Global development section in 2005.
How much is Richard Curtis worth?
| Born | Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis 8 November 1956 Wellington, New Zealand |
Is Richard Curtis married to Emma Freud?
So it was surprising (well, for me) that the British writer and producer has been romantically involved and cohabiting with script editor and broadcaster Emma Freud, 57, for 28 years and has four children with her — but they’re not married.
How did Emma Freud meet Richard Curtis?
The pair, who are responsible for rom-com classics Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and About Time, first met when Freud interviewed Curtis about his work with Comic Relief for BBC Radio 4.
Who Wrote Love Actually?
Richard Curtis
How much does Julia Roberts worth?
Her fee for Pretty Woman (1990) was $300,000, while she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). As of 2020, Roberts’s net worth was estimated to be $250 million. People magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times.
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