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Ronan Bennett (born 14 January 1956) is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the drug and gang-related crime drama television series Top Boy.
Ronan Bennett was born in 1956 in Northern Ireland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Top Boy (2011), Public Enemies (2009) and Gunpowder (2017).
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Apr 15, 2024 · Half a year on from the spectacular conclusion to the fifth and (maybe, maybe not) final season of his acclaimed TV drama, series creator Ronan Bennett reflects on the show’s sometimes tortured...
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Top Boy is a British crime drama television series created and written by Ronan Bennett. The series is set on the fictional Summerhouse estate in the London Borough of Hackney. It focuses on two drug dealers, Dushane ( Ashley Walters) and Sully ( Kane Robinson ), along with others involved with drug dealing and gang violence in London.
Screenwriter Ronan Bennett, who conceived of the show’s premise after seeing a 12-year-old boy dealing drugs in 2009 in Hackney, East London — where he lives, and the show is set — has written of how the struggles in his own life – such as raising two children after losing his wife to cancer – bled into the tone of the scripts as he ...
Sep 5, 2023 · The Independent' Nick Hilton awarded three stars as Irish screenwriter Ronan Bennett's "bleak but cinematic vision of modern urban life smashes to a close".
Ronan Bennett was born in 1956 in Northern Ireland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Top Boy (2011), Public Enemies (2009) and Gunpowder (2017).