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name: "Zinnie Harris"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "23 December 1972"
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T08:18:37.863642+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."
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# Zinnie Harris

Writer. Born 23 December 1972 in Oxford.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 23 December 1972, Oxford
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinnie_Harris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8072439, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1906409/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1903424

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Spooks*](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md) (77)

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## Biography

Zinnie Harris is a British playwright, screenwriter and director. She was born in Oxford on 23 December 1972 and studied zoology at Oxford University before taking an MA in theatre direction at Hull University.

She has written episodes for the BBC series *Spooks* (2006–2009) and the miniseries *Partners in Crime* (2015), as well as the Channel 4 dramas *Born with Two Mothers* (2005) and *Richard Is My Boyfriend* (2007). Her stage plays include *Further than the Furthest Thing* (2000), *How to Hold Your Breath* (2015) and *This Restless House* (2016). She is Professor of Playwriting and Screenwriting at the University of St Andrews and Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, st-andrews.ac.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Spooks* (2002), Fi1m 77, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *A Glimpse* (2022), Director, Writer
- *When? An Extract from Further than the Furthest Thing* (2020), Director, Writer
- *Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives* (2018), series, Writer
- *Partners in Crime* (2015), series, Writer, Creator
- *Born With Two Mothers* (2005), Writer
- *Spooks* (2002), series, Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md)

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