Daisy Goodwin | |
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Born | Daisy Georgia Goodwin 19 December 1961 London, England[1] |
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Period | 1985–present |
Parents | Richard B. Goodwin Jocasta Innes |
Relatives | Jason 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.