Gaby Chiappe

Gaby Chiappe (born c. 1964) At Cambridge, where she met future husband Dominic Gray, she "did as much acting as possible", and wanted to continue after graduating. However, she found that lifestyle unsatisfying and felt that her playwriting was not building a career. Chiappe and husband moved to Leeds in 1997. At the same time, she was offered the opportunity to write a trial script, like a writing audition, for television show Family Affairs, which a friend was working on. Chiappe got the job, and while she was writing commissioned scripts for the show, she realised that "script writing was the culmination of all that interested her". Chiappe and Batty were praised for their presented the subject. In this process, Chiappe is said in Gibraltar Magazine to have "found there wasn't too big a difference between writing scripts for television and film".

Expanding into more films, Chiappe co-wrote the 2020 film, Misbehaviour, with Rebecca Frayn, about the 1970 Miss World pageant and Women's liberation movement. In 2019, she was set to write for the Ed Rubin television development The Beast Must Die. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chiappe was one of the writers who contributed to ITV's Isolation Stories.

Filmography Sources: Gibraltar Magazine; WGGB