Jane Goldman

Jane Goldman is an English screenwriter, film producer, journalist and author, born in 1970 and raised in north London. She began as a freelance journalist while still a teenager, wrote for newspapers and magazines, published books such as The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, and presented the paranormal series Jane Goldman Investigates on the channel Living in 2003 and 2004. In film she became a frequent collaborator of director Matthew Vaughn, co-writing Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class and the Kingsman films. Her first solo screenplay was The Woman in Black in 2012, and she also wrote The Limehouse Golem and Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Stardust brought the screenwriters a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.