---
name: "Sally Rooney"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sally-rooney"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "20 February 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-18T10:36:01.302560+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."
---

# Sally Rooney

Writer and producer. Born 20 February 1991 in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 20 February 1991, Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Rooney, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54861296, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10745607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2814307

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Normal People*](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md) (84)

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

## Biography

Sally Rooney is an Irish writer. She was born on 20 February 1991 in Castlebar, County Mayo.

Her debut novel *Conversations with Friends* was published in 2017 and adapted into a 2022 television series. Her second novel *Normal People* (2018) was adapted into a 2020 series for which she received a writing credit.

Rooney has since published two further novels, *Beautiful World, Where Are You* (2021) and *Intermezzo* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Conversations with Friends* (2022), Fi1m 55, Novel, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/conversations-with-friends.md)
- *Normal People* (2020), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer, Novel, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Conversations with Friends* (2022), series, Novel, Executive Producer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/tv/conversations-with-friends.md)
- *Normal People* (2020), series, Novel, Executive Producer, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)

## Gallery

- ![Sally Rooney](https://film.one/media/person/201880/gallery-f64cab551fb2.png) Sally Rooney — Frank Barat, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Sally_Rooney.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Toni Morrison and friends (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/201880/gallery-5d41d6724dbb.jpg) Toni Morrison and friends (2023) — MagdaBarascu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Toni_Morrison_and_friends.jpg/1280px-Toni_Morrison_and_friends.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won, 1 nominated

- Time 100 2022: Time 100 (won)
- Encore Award 2019: Encore Award (won), for *Normal People*
- Booker Prize 2018: Booker Prize (nominated), for *Normal People*
- Costa Book Award for Novel 2018: Costa Book Award for Novel (won), for *Normal People*

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

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