---
name: "Pete Lawson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pete-lawson"
fi1m_id: "pete-lawson"
tmdb_id: 1819041
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "31 December 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:30:20.880728+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."
---

# Pete Lawson

## Identity

Pete Lawson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pete-lawson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pete-lawson
- **TMDB ID:** 1819041
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1819041

Writer. Born 31 December 1968 in Malawi.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 31 December 1968, Malawi
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1819041

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

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## Biography

Pete Lawson is a British television writer. He has written for *EastEnders* since 2008 and is one of the soap's longest-serving writers, contributing over 240 episodes.

Born on 31 December 1968 in Malawi, he grew up in Birmingham and studied English Literature and Drama at the University of Sheffield. He worked in youth theatre and with the company Steam Factory, and was an Arts Council Writer in Residence for Gay Sweatshop. Lawson began writing for television in the mid-1990s on series including *Capital Lives*, *London Bridge* and *Being April*. He has also written episodes of *The Afternoon Play* and *Casualty*, and contributed to BBC Radio 4.

*Sources: eastenders.fandom.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *The Act* (2020), Screenplay
- *The Afternoon Play* (2003), series, Writer
- *Being April* (2002), series, Writer, Creator
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

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