---
name: "Deborah Moggach"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/deborah-moggach"
fi1m_id: "deborah-moggach"
imdb_id: "nm0595738"
tmdb_id: 36652
wikidata_id: "Q3020878"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 June 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T22:07:53.330691+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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# Deborah Moggach

## Identity

Deborah Moggach

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/deborah-moggach
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** deborah-moggach
- **IMDb ID:** nm0595738
- **TMDB ID:** 36652
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3020878
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Moggach, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3020878, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36652

Writer. Born 28 June 1948 in Hertfordshire.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 June 1948, Hertfordshire
- **Active:** 2005–2012
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 82 (1), 2010s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Moggach, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3020878, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36652

## Biography

Deborah Moggach is an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Born on 28 June 1948 in Middlesex, she was brought up in Hertfordshire and London, and graduated from the University of Bristol in 1971 with a degree in English.

She has written nineteen novels, several of which have been adapted for screen, including *These Foolish Things* (2004), the basis for the film *The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel* (2012), and *Tulip Fever* (1999), which she also adapted as a screenplay for the 2017 film. Her other screen work includes the screenplay for *Pride & Prejudice* (2005), for which she received a BAFTA nomination, and the television adaptation of *The Diary of Anne Frank* (2009).

Moggach was appointed OBE in 2018 for services to literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel* (2012), Fi1m 71, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel.md)
- *Pride & Prejudice* (2005), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/pride-and-prejudice-2005.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Tulip Fever* (2017), Screenplay, Novel
- *The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel* (2012), Novel — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel.md)
- *The Diary of Anne Frank* (2009), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Diary of Anne Frank* (2009), Adaptation
- *Pride & Prejudice* (2005), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/pride-and-prejudice-2005.md)
- *Final Demand* (2003), Writer
- *Love in a Cold Climate* (2001), series, Teleplay
- *Close Relations* (1998), series, Writer
- *Seesaw* (1998), series, Novel
- *Goggle Eyes* (1993), series, Teleplay
- *Stolen* (1990), series, Writer
- *To Have and to Hold* (1986), series, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1999: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (won)

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

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