---
name: "Shawn Slovo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shawn-slovo"
fi1m_id: "shawn-slovo"
imdb_id: "nm0806256"
tmdb_id: 15539
wikidata_id: "Q7491459"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T08:12:14.807296+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."
---

# Shawn Slovo

## Identity

Shawn Slovo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shawn-slovo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shawn-slovo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0806256
- **TMDB ID:** 15539
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7491459
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Slovo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7491459, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806256/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15539

Writer. Born 1 January 1950 in South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1950, South Africa
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Slovo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7491459, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806256/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15539

## Biography

Shawn Slovo is a South African screenwriter. She was born in South Africa in 1950, the daughter of anti-apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First. Her family moved to the United Kingdom in 1964 as political refugees. In the late 1970s she worked as Robert De Niro's personal assistant on the films *Raging Bull* (1980) and *The King of Comedy* (1982).

Slovo's first screenplay was *A World Apart* (1988), directed by Chris Menges, which drew on her childhood experiences. It won the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1988. She later wrote the screenplays for *Captain Corelli's Mandolin* (2001), *Catch a Fire* (2006) and *Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight* (2013). She lives in London.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Captain Corelli's Mandolin* (2001), Fi1m 48, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/captain-corellis-mandolin.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight* (2013), Writer
- *Catch a Fire* (2006), Screenplay
- *Captain Corelli's Mandolin* (2001), Screenplay — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/captain-corellis-mandolin.md)
- *A World Apart* (1988), Writer, Associate Producer
- *Ballad of Dog Beach* (1987), Dialogue
- *Good Morning, Mr. Mandela*, Screenplay

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