Biography
Laura Jones is an Australian screenwriter. She began her career writing teleplays for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation before her first feature credit, the original screenplay for High Tide (1987), directed by Gillian Armstrong.
Her adaptation of Janet Frame’s autobiography An Angel at My Table (1990), directed by Jane Campion, was followed by further literary adaptations including The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Oscar and Lucinda (1997). Other credits include Angela’s Ashes (1999), A Thousand Acres (1997), Possession (2002) and Brick Lane (2007). She is the daughter of novelist Jessica Anderson.
Jones has received the Australian Writers’ Guild Award three times, the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Screen Writing twice, and the Australian Film Institute’s Byron Kennedy Award.
