Steven Moffat (photo ©Ewen Roberts) was born on November 18, 1961 in Paisley, Scotland.

Steven Moffat studied at the University Glasgow, where he worked with the local student television station, the GUST (Glasgow University Student Television). After graduating in English, Moffat worked as a school teacher for three and a half years.

During the ’80s, Steven Moffat wrote a stage play and a musical. His father was also a teacher and when the school where he worked was used for the TV show “Highway” he told the producers that his son had an idea for a television series. Steven Moffat submitted a sample screenplay, which became the basis of the series “Press Gang” that was later created.

After the second season of “Press Gang” there were doubts about the continuation of the series and Steven Moffat was going through a difficult period in his personal life because of the separation with his first wife. Bob Spiers, the main director of “Press Gang”, suggested that he wrote something about his experience in school and the evolution of that idea became the sitcom “Chalk”, which however aired only in 1997.

Once again influenced by his personal life, Steven Moffat wrote “Joking Apart”, a sitcom about a writer who is left by his wife in which he inserted many dialogues based on what he and his ex-wife actually said.

In 1996, Steven Moffat met Sue Vertue, who became his second wife and gave him two children. This new relationship inspired him to create a new series, “Coupling”, which aired from 2000. In 2003 Moffat contributed to the creation of the American version of the series, but it had no success due to the interference of the NBC in its production.

When in 2005 the legendary series “Doctor Who” returned to television, Steven Moffat, who was a fan since his childhood, fulfilled his dream becoming one of the authors of the new series. In 2010 he also became “Doctor Who” executive producer. In these roles he won the Hugo Award with the episodes “The Empty Child” / “The Doctor Dances”, “The Girl in the Fireplace”, “Blink” and “The Pandora Opens” / “The Big Bang”.

In recent years Steven Moffat produced and wrote other projects as well. “Jekyll”, in 2007, reinvented in a modern way the classic “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. “Sherlock”, a series that updates the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, debuted in 2010. For cinema, Steven Moffat wrote the screenplay for the movie “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn”. Originally he was to write the whole trilogy but first the authors strike and then his commitment with “Doctor Who” forced him to give up writing the other two movies.

Steven Moffat won many awards, especially in Great Britain. He’s a brilliant writer who surely will delight us for many more years with many great stories!