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name: "Lawrence Wright"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lawrence-wright"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 August 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:33:40.891094+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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# Lawrence Wright

Actor. Born 2 August 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 August 1947, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353893, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942590/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59978

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Three Identical Strangers*](https://film.one/film/three-identical-strangers.md) (74)

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## Biography

Lawrence Wright is an American author, screenwriter, playwright and staff writer for The New Yorker. Born in Oklahoma City in 1947, he graduated from Tulane University and the American University in Cairo. He began his career in journalism in 1971 and joined The New Yorker in 1992.

Wright is best known for his 2006 book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film The Siege and authored Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (2013). His 1997 book Twins explored studies of separated siblings and led to his contribution to the 2018 documentary Three Identical Strangers.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Three Identical Strangers* (2018), Fi1m 74, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/three-identical-strangers.md)

## Also known for

- *The Siege* (1998), Screenplay
- *Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief* (2015), Novel
- *The Looming Tower* (2018), Book, Story

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