Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He first made independent short films before making his first feature film, A Fistful of Fingers, in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In 2004, Wright directed the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, starring Pegg and Frost, the first film in Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. The film was co-written with Pegg—as were the next two entries in the trilogy, the buddy cop film Hot Fuzz (2007) and the science fiction comedy The World's End (2013). In 2010, Wright co-wrote and directed the action comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, an adaptation of the graphic novel series. Along with Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat, he adapted The Adventures of Tintin (2011) for Steven Spielberg. Wright and Cornish co-wrote the screenplay for the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man in 2015, which Wright intended to direct but abandoned, citing creative differences. He has also written and directed the action film Baby Driver (2017), the documentary The Sparks Brothers, and the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (both 2021).

Filmography

• 2025Snow White — Thanks
• 2025The Running Man — Producer, Director, Screenplay
• Digman! — Chap Kingsley (voice)
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off — Executive Producer
• 2021Last Night in Soho — Story, Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 2021Sing 2 — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2021The Sparks Brothers — Self, Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2021What the Hell Is It This Time? Sparks: Live in London — Director
• 2020Shadows — Writer
• 2017Baby Driver — Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• DuckTales — Alistair Boorswan (voice)
• 2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Resistance Trooper (uncredited)
• 2017The Shape of Water — Thanks
• 2017Tour de Pharmacy — Commentator
• 2016Sing — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2015Ant-Man — Screenplay, Story, Executive Producer
• 2013Completing the Golden Mile: The Making of The World's End — Self, Producer
• 2013The World's End — Construction Worker (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2012Sightseers — Executive Producer
• 2011Attack the Block — Executive Producer
• 2011Paul — Script Editor
• 2011The Adventures of Tintin — Screenplay
• 2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2010The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' — Self, Producer
• 2007Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz — Self, Producer
• 2007Grindhouse — Other
• 2007Hot Fuzz — Shelf Stacker / Voice of Dave (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 2007Son of Rambow — Metal Work Teacher
• 2005Land of the Dead — Photo Booth Zombie
• 2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Deep Thought Technician (uncredited)
• 2004Shaun of the Dead — Rabid Monkeys Newsreader / Prat-falling Zombie / Italian Restaurant Voice (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 2003Mint Royale: Blue Song — Director, Writer
• Look Around You — Scientist, Floor manager, Technician, Eddie Yorque
• 2001Calcium
• 2001Forced Hilarity — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• Sir Bernard's Stately Homes — Director, Creator
• Spaced — First Sleeping Ex-flatmate, Director, Creator
• Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round — Director
• Is It Bill Bailey? — Director
• Asylum — Director, Writer, Creator
• Mash and Peas — Director
• 1996Very Important Pennis: Uncut — Second Unit Director
• 1995A Fistful of Fingers — Cheesy Voiceover Artist / Two Bit Farmer Cameo, Director, Screenplay, Story, Producer
• 1993Dead Right — The Director (uncredited), Writer, Editor, Producer
• 1992Carbolic Soap — Abner / Mum / Careers Man, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 1992Help! — Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
• 1991I Want to Get Into the Movies! — Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
• Murder Most Horrid — Director
• Barbarella — Director
• Dodge & Twist — Director
• Seconds — Producer, Screenplay
• Set My Heart to Five — Director, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (19)

• Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast — Self
• 2021I Am Alfred Hitchcock — Self
• 2020Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis — Self - Scene Headings
• 2018Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2 — Self
• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
• 2018Friedkin Uncut — Self
• The Russell Howard Hour — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014Lennon or McCartney — Self
• 2014Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe — Self (uncredited)
• 2014Out of Print — Self
• 2011Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope — Self
• 2007One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead — Self
• 2007Suck My Geek! — Self
• 2007The Fuzzball Rally — Self
• 2006Halloween: 25 Years of Terror — Self
• 2005When Shaun Met George — Self
• 2004Spaced: Skip to the End — Self