Writing

Fay Weldon

Born 1931-09-22 · Birmingham, England, UK

Fay Weldon (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was a British author, essayist and playwright. Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffball (1980), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), Wicked Women (1995) and The Bulgari Connection (2000), but was most well-known as the writer of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) which was televised by the BBC in 1986.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Mrs. Weekley's Lover poster
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Mrs. Weekley starts an affair with a young writer named D.H. Lawrence.

Mrs. Weekley's Lover

2025

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Abschiedsparty

1975

Poor Cherry poster
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A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.

Poor Cherry

1967

Office Party poster
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Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.

Office Party

1971

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7.0

The perfect middle-class couple are holding a dinner party when Nicholas gets a telephone call from Sheila, the mother of his teenage daughter Joan, saying that she can no longer stand to be with her and he must look after her now.

A Catching Complaint

1966

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Die Geschichte einer dicken Frau

1973

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Based on a true story about a mountaineer named Lucy Walker who becomes the first woman to climb the Matterhorn in 1871.

A Dangerous Kind of Love

1986

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6.5

A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?

Life for Christine

1980

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Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she discovers that the wine he has brought is not intended for her.

Poor Mother

1970

A Splinter of Ice poster
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Fay Weldon's play about adultery, middle age, and ambition.

A Splinter of Ice

1972

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1964. During a general election campaign, lecturer Terry Iverson is forced to question his own beliefs and values when he's faced with a potentially campaign-ending family situation.

Age of Hypocrisy

1977