Jane Loretta Anne Goldman (born 11 June 1970) is an English screenwriter, author and producer. She is mostly known for co-writing, with Matthew Vaughn, the screenplays of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015), X-Men: First Class (2011), Kick-Ass (2010) and Stardust (2007). Both met high critical praise for their partnership works. The Woman in Black (2012) is the first solo screenplay by Goldman. She is also known for writing the books Dreamworld (2000) and The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1997), and presenting her own paranormal TV series, Jane Goldman Investigates, on the channel Living, between 2003 and 2004.
Goldman worked on the story of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), the sequel to First Class, and on the screenplay of Kingsman: The Secret Service (the 2015 adaptation of the comic book by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons). Both films were partnerships with Matthew Vaughn. Goldman also wrote the script for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, a 2016 film adaption of the novel, for Tim Burton.
Professional career
Journalism, books and TV
As a journalist, Goldman worked on newspapers and magazines such as Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, The Times, Evening Standard, Zero, Daily Star, Total Guitar, Game Zone and Sega Zone. At the age of 19, she became a freelance writer.[2][3][4]
Goldman also wrote books: Thirteen-Something (1993), Streetsmarts: A Teenagers Safety Guide (1996), Sussed and Streetwise (1997), the two-volume best-selling series The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1997), her first and only novel Dreamworld (2000) and Do the Right Thing (2007).
Between 2003 and 2004 she had her own television series. Jane Goldman Investigates researched about the paranormal and was transmitted by channel Living. Goldman is also in the production team of a number of TV shows, such as The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
Jane Goldman net worth: Jane Goldman is an English screenwriter, producer, and author who has a net worth of $7 million. Jane Goldman was born in Hammersmith, London, England in June 1970. Goldman worked as a journalist for publications such as Cosmopolitan, The Times, Total Guitar, and Evening Standard. She wrote the books Thirteen-Something in 1993, Streetsmarts: A Teenagers Safety Guide in 1996, and Sussed and Streetwise in 1997. She also wrote the two-volume best-selling book series The X-Files Book of the Unexplained in 1997, Dreamworld in 2000, and Do the Right Thing in 2007. She had her own series titled Jane Goldman Investigates from 2003 to 2004. Goldman co-produced the 2010 movie Kick-Ass and has produced or executive produced for The Big Fat Quiz TV movie series. She wrote for the movies Stardust, Kick-Ass, The Debt, X-Men: First Class, The Woman in Black, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Kingsman: The Secret Service. She won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form in 2008 for Stardust and A Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award in 2010 for Best Original Film Screenplay for Kick-Ass. Jane married English television and radio presenter Jonathan Ross in 1998.
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