---
name: "Phyllis Nagy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/phyllis-nagy"
fi1m_id: "phyllis-nagy"
imdb_id: "nm0619507"
tmdb_id: 1034086
wikidata_id: "Q7188607"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "7 November 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:54:18.280812+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."
---

# Phyllis Nagy

## Identity

Phyllis Nagy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/phyllis-nagy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** phyllis-nagy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0619507
- **TMDB ID:** 1034086
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7188607
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Nagy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7188607, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619507/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1034086

Writer. Born 7 November 1962 in New York, New York, U.S.A..

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 7 November 1962, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Nagy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7188607, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619507/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1034086

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Carol*](https://film.one/film/carol.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Phyllis Nagy is an American screenwriter, playwright and film director. Born in New York City on 7 November 1962, she moved to London in 1992. Her playwriting career developed at the Royal Court Theatre, where she served as writer-in-residence in the mid-1990s.

Nagy wrote the screenplay for the 2015 film *Carol*, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel *The Price of Salt*, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. She had previously written and directed the television film *Mrs. Harris* (2005), earning Emmy nominations for writing and directing. Her feature directorial debut, *Call Jane* (2022), premiered at Sundance.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, latimes.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Carol* (2015), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/carol.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Call Jane* (2022), Director
- *Carol* (2015), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/carol.md)
- *Mrs. Harris* (2005), Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Film director Phyllis Nagy at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/122540/gallery-088296d69149.jpg) Film director Phyllis Nagy at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Phyllis_Nagy-5997.jpg/1280px-Phyllis_Nagy-5997.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Film director Phyllis Nagy at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/122540/gallery-ffef2f703a45.jpg) Film director Phyllis Nagy at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Phyllis_Nagy-5998.jpg/1280px-Phyllis_Nagy-5998.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Phyllis Nagy](https://film.one/media/person/122540/gallery-88f7d07940bd.jpg) Phyllis Nagy — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Phyllis_Nagy-6015.jpg/1280px-Phyllis_Nagy-6015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Film director Phyllis Nagy at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/122540/gallery-9c92f518767b.jpg) Film director Phyllis Nagy at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Phyllis_Nagy-6026.jpg/1280px-Phyllis_Nagy-6026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Phyllis Nagy](https://film.one/media/person/122540/gallery-2fb6ac488ba8.jpg) Phyllis Nagy — Image via TMDB
- ![Phyllis Nagy](https://film.one/media/person/122540/gallery-e296d725f1ec.jpg) Phyllis Nagy — Image via TMDB
- ![Film director Phyllis Nagy at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/122540/gallery-5c66c2b30110.jpg) Film director Phyllis Nagy at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Phyllis_Nagy-6056.jpg/1280px-Phyllis_Nagy-6056.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2016: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Carol*

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

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