Daisy Goodwin

Daisy Goodwin
Goodwin at the 2023 Chiswick Book Festival
Goodwin at the 2023 Chiswick Book Festival
BornDaisy Georgia Goodwin
(1961-12-19) 19 December 1961 (age 62)
London, England[1]
Occupation
  • Screenwriter
  • novelist
  • television producer
Period1985–present
ParentsRichard B. Goodwin
Jocasta Innes
RelativesJason Goodwin (half-brother)
Robert Traill (great-great-great-grandfather)

Daisy Georgia Goodwin (born 19 December 1961) is an English screenwriter, TV producer and novelist. She is the creator of the ITV/ PBS show Victoria which has sold to 146 countries. She has written four novels: My Last Duchess or The American Heiress, The Fortune Hunter, Victoria, and “Diva”; all of which have been New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into more than ten languages.[2][3] She has also curated eight poetry anthologies, including 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life. Goodwin spent twenty-five years working as a TV producer, where she created and produced shows like Grand Designs which has now been on Channel 4 for more than twenty years, and Escape to the Country which is in its twentieth year on BBC2.

  1. ^ "Daisy Goodwin interview: 'Queen Victoria would have approved of Meghan Markle'". The Daily Telegraph. 24 March 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Home". daisygoodwin.co.uk.
  3. ^ "Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006". www.findmypast.co.uk.