Rupert Wainwright

Rupert Wainwright

Rupert Wainwright is an English film and television director, writer, and actor. Rupert Wainwright is an award-winning director who brings a unique visual style and driving sense of storytelling to the worlds of features, tv and commercials. His feature Stigmata (MGM) starring Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne and Jonathan Pryce, is an original vision of a classical horror film blended with a personal search for faith. Praised for its striking imagery, Stigmata opened #1 in the US and made over $100 million worldwide. The Fog (Sony Pictures) starring Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair also opened #1 in theatres in the US. The Sadness of Sex, a festival favorite, was described by the Los Angeles Times as “an inspired tour de force”, and Wainwright’s debut feature Blank Check (Disney) has been described as a kids' favorite. His newest feature project is the New York Times best-seller Not Without Hope, a true life thriller of endurance in the face of an ocean tragedy, shooting spring 2020.

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