Biography
Peter Moffat is a Scottish playwright and screenwriter. Born in Edinburgh in 1962, he trained and worked as a barrister before turning to writing. His first play, A Fine and Private Place, was broadcast on BBC Radio in 1997.
Moffat created the legal dramas North Square (2000), Criminal Justice (2008) and Silk (2011). He wrote the television films Hawking (2004) and Einstein and Eddington (2008), the miniseries Cambridge Spies (2003), and an episode of the ShakespeaRe-Told series (2005). He has also written The Village (2013) and, for American television, Your Honor (2020) and 61st Street (2022). He won two BAFTA awards for Criminal Justice.
