Shaun Grant

Shaun Grant is an Australian screenwriter and producer. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with Justin Kurzel; Snowtown, True History of the Kelly Gang (2020) and Nitram (2021). Grant has also written screenplay adaptions for several Australian novels and worked on David Fincher's Mindhunter.

Biography Early life Grant grew up living in a pub, located in the rural Victorian town of Kyneton. While Grant always knew he wanted to be a filmmaker, his family convinced him there was no money in the profession.

Grant went on to spend eight and a half years working as a school teacher. After finishing the book in one evening, Grant was compelled to put up his own money to option the screenplay rights. The script was found by a pair of producers, Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw, who encouraged Grant to develop the screenplay with then up-and-coming director Justin Kurzel.

Kurzel and Grant's debut film Snowtown was released in 2011. The film received acclaim upon its screening at Cannes. and began writing for television. He secured a job on the show Killing Time, following a recommendation from the Snowtown script supervisor.

Grant wrote the screenplay for the adaptations of two Australian books Berlin Syndrome and Jasper Jones, both of which were released in 2017.

In 2019, Grant continued his collaboration with Kurzel on The True History of the Kelly Gang, an adaption of Peter Carey's novel. The pair also began developing a series based on Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize winning Narrow Road to the Deep North. The series entered production in 2023, with Jacob Elordi attached in the starring role.

After Charlize Theron and David Fincher were impressed by Grant's work, they invited him to write the finale of the second season of Mindhunter. The episode, which aired in 2019, marked Grant's American television writing debut and became the series' final episode following its cancellation.

While Grant was living in Los Angeles in 2018, his wife narrowly missed experiencing a mass shooting in a supermarket.

Personal life Grant is married to Australian/American actress Annabel Marshall-Roth.

He is an avid supporter of Hawthorn Football Club.

Filmography Screenwriter

Marx and Venus (2008) - 1 Episode Snowtown (2011) Killing Time (2011) - 2 Episodes SLiDE (2011) - 2 Episodes Janet King (2014) - 2 Episodes Deadline Gallipoli (2015) - 2 Episodes Berlin Syndrome (2017) Jasper Jones (2017) Mindhunter (2019) - 1 Episode True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Penguin Bloom (2020) Nitram (2021) The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2024) - 5 Episodes

Producer

True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Nitram (2021) Exposure (2024) The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2024)