Abigail Louise Morgan OBE (born 1968) is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter known for her works for television, such as Sex Traffic and The Hour, and the films Brick Lane, The Iron Lady, Shame and Suffragette.
[5] Having not dared to show any of her writing "to anyone for five years", she gained her first professional stage credit in 1998 with Skinned, produced at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton.
[5] Her next film was The Iron Lady, which starred Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, closely followed by a smaller-budget production, Shame, co-written with Steve McQueen.
[10] Her next film, The Invisible Woman, was an adaptation of the book of the same name by Claire Tomalin, about the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, which lasted for thirteen years until his death in 1870.
The film was released to critical acclaim in 2013, but its production was reportedly strained after clashes between lead actress Kristin Scott Thomas and Morgan on set, the source of which was never disclosed.
[11] A staunch opponent of Brexit, Morgan was one of nine leading playwrights to contribute to a series of online dramas in 2017 responding to the causes and consequences of the EU referendum result.
[13] In 2015 Morgan was living in the north London neighbourhood of Stroud Green in Haringey[14] with her husband, actor Jacob Krichefski.