Biography
William Ivory is a British screenwriter, playwright and actor. Born in 1964 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, he worked as a binman before becoming a stagehand and then an actor at the Nottingham Playhouse. His first television writing credit was the 1991 drama Journey to Knock.
Ivory wrote episodes of the series Minder in the early 1990s and created the BAFTA-nominated series Common as Muck. He wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film Made in Dagenham and later works including Burton and Taylor (2013) and The Great Escaper (2023). He is a three-time BAFTA nominee and has also written stage plays.
