St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast
Alma mater
King's College London
Occupation(s)
Novelist and screenwriter
Spouse
Georgina Henry
Children
2 (including Finn Bennett)
Ronan Bennett (born 14 January 1956) is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the drug and gang-related crime drama television series Top Boy. His other writing credits include the 1997 crime film Face, the 2009 Michael Mann crime biopic Public Enemies and the 2017 BBC historical drama miniseries Gunpowder.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he moved to live in Hackney, East London with his wife and two children. Inspired by witnessing a twelve-year-old boy dealing drugs at his local Tesco supermarket in Hackney, Bennett created and wrote Top Boy, a British crime drama television series focusing on gang culture and drug dealing in a predominantly black council estate in East London. Originally airing for two series on Channel 4, the show was cancelled in 2014 but was revived as an original Netflix series, produced by rap artist Drake.
RonanBennett (born 14 January 1956) is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive...
Prior in True Detective: Night Country (2024). Bennett is the son of RonanBennett, an Irish novelist and screenwriter, and Georgina Henry, a British journalist...
Boy is a British crime drama television series created and written by RonanBennett. The series is set on the fictional Summerhouse estate in the London...
as director and executive producer alongside the creator of Top Boy RonanBennett on the Ray Donovan spin-off series The Donovans for the streaming service...
King's College London, where she read history. At King's College she met RonanBennett, subsequently a writer, who became her lifelong partner. Always known...
as showrunner and director and Suparn Verma as co-director. In 2023, RonanBennett will write and create a British remake series for Paramount+ titled...
plant Love Lies Bleeding (1993 film), a British television film by RonanBennett in the anthology series ScreenPlay Love Lies Bleeding, a 1993 BBC Northern...
adaptation of the novel, produced by Carnival Films and Sky Studios with RonanBennett as showrunner and Brian Kirk as director. Eddie Redmayne will play the...
Together with screenwriter RonanBennett, Fassbender has formed a production company, Finn McCool Films. Fassbender and Bennett are currently developing...
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is a direct descendant of Robert Catesby. He, along with co-creators RonanBennett and Daniel West, produced a three-part dramatization called Gunpowder...
Reasonable Bunch, Little Lamb, Tedy Productions HBO 2019–2023 Top Boy RonanBennett SpringHill Entertainment Netflix 2021–present Chillin Island Josh Safdie...
Offshoot Series Set At Paramount+ From Guy Ritchie & 'Top Boy' Creator RonanBennett". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 28, 2024. Rice, Lynette (March...
Retrieved 8 February 2011. "Philip Glenister returns to BBC One in RonanBennett's complex new thriller, Hidden", BBC Press Office, 28 March 2011, updated...
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