Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis CBE (born 8 November 1956) is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director. One of Britain’s most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films, among them Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019).
Richard Curtis Children: Meet Scarlett Curtis, Spike Curtis, Scarlett Rachel Anne Curtis, Charlie Curtis, Jake Curtis
‘Scarlett, who’s my most activist daughter, goes about her activism in a very different way from me, and if anyone ever attacks me, she defends me as being someone who did what seemed right in the way they thought right at that time.’
Richard shares activist and writer daughter Scarlett, 21, and sons Jake, 24, Charlie, 20, and Spike, 16, with his wife Emma Freud.
The Blackadder and Mr. Bean creator added: ‘All my conversations with my children now, they don’t like 20 percent of my jokes, because they think they’re old fashioned and wrong in some way.