Biography
Jonathan Perera is a British screenwriter. His first screenplay, Miss Sloane (2016), was produced as a political thriller directed by John Madden and starring Jessica Chastain.
Perera trained as a corporate lawyer before teaching English in China and South Korea. He began screenwriting in his early thirties while living in Asia and completed the script for Miss Sloane without initial plans to submit it. The script was discovered via a query letter in 2014, optioned by FilmNation, and developed with no other writers credited.
Perera received the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Screenplay for Miss Sloane.
