Christopher Hampton

Biography

Christopher Hampton (born January 26, 1946) is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses and the film Dangerous Liaisons.

Hampton was born to British parents in Fayal, Azores and as a child, lived in Aden, Egypt and Zanzibar. At the age of 13 went to Lancing College, where he won house colours for boxing and distinguished himself as a sergeant in the CCF. In 1964 he went to New College, Oxford, as Sacher Scholar, to study German and French and graduated with a First Class Degree in 1968.

He became involved in theatre at Oxford University and moved on to become the youngest writer ever to have a play performed in the West End in 1966. From 1968-70 he worked as the Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

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