Maggie O'Farrell FRSL (born 1972) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was co-adapted for the screen with Chloe Zhao in 2025. Her 2022 historical novel, The Marriage Portrait, was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie O'Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- May 27, 1972 (54)
- Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK
- Producer and writer
- 1 on MovieCove · 3 credits in all
Known for
Where can I watch Maggie O'Farrell's films?
As of October 24, 2026, their 1 MovieCove title streams on a subscription or free service, on Netflix (1).
Subscription and free streaming for Maggie O'Farrell's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
3 credits, 1 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Hamnet(2025)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all filmsLand (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Marriage Portrait (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Awards
a BAFTA Award from 6 major nominations, 2026.
- Oscar, nominated · Best Adapted Screenplay
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
- BAFTA Award, won · Outstanding British Film of the Year
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Screenplay (Adapted)
+2 other major bodies · 2 nominations
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · Adapted Screenplay
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Adapted Screenplay
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.