---
name: "Charles Hart"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charles-hart"
fi1m_id: "charles-hart"
imdb_id: "nm1378865"
tmdb_id: 2440123
wikidata_id: "Q4496084"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 June 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T02:59:32.219922+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Charles Hart

## Identity

Charles Hart

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charles-hart
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charles-hart
- **IMDb ID:** nm1378865
- **TMDB ID:** 2440123
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4496084
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hart_(lyricist), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4496084, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1378865/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2440123

Writer. Born 3 June 1961 in London.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 June 1961, London
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hart_(lyricist), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4496084, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1378865/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2440123

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Phantom of the Opera*](https://film.one/film/the-phantom-of-the-opera.md) (49)

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## Biography

Charles Hart is an English lyricist, librettist and songwriter. Born on 3 June 1961 in London, he was educated at Desborough School in Maidenhead, Robinson College, Cambridge, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He is best known for his lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's *The Phantom of the Opera* (1986 stage musical; 2004 film), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for the song "Learn to Be Lonely". His other credits include lyrics for *Aspects of Love* (1989) and additional lyrics for *Love Never Dies* (2012). He has also written for television and collaborated on musicals with Howard Goodall.

Hart has received two Ivor Novello Awards and Tony Award nominations for *The Phantom of the Opera* and *Aspects of Love*. He is the grandson of actress Angela Baddeley and theatre director Glen Byam Shaw.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Phantom of the Opera* (2004), Fi1m 49, Writer, Lyricist — [page](https://film.one/film/the-phantom-of-the-opera.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025* (2025), Music
- *Love Never Dies* (2012), Musical, Lyricist, Writer
- *The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall* (2011), Lyricist, Writer
- *The Phantom of the Opera* (2004), Lyricist, Writer — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/the-phantom-of-the-opera.md)
- *The Vampyr: A Soap Opera* (1992), Lyricist

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2005: Best Original Song (nominated), for *Learn to Be Lonely*

### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Original Score 1990: Tony Award for Best Original Score (nominated), for *Aspects of Love*
- Tony Award for Best Original Score 1988: Tony Award for Best Original Score (nominated), for *The Phantom of the Opera*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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