Christopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwans Atonement.
Hampton was born in Faial, Azores, to British parents Dorothy Patience and Bernard Patrick Hampton, a marine telecommunications engineer for Cable amp Wireless. His fathers job led the family to settle in Aden and Alexandria in Egypt and later Hong Kong and Zanzibar. The Suez Crisis in 1956 necessitated that the family flee under cover of darkness, leaving their possessions behind.
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