Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy—comprising Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013)—made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg, Nira Park, and Nick Frost. He had previously collaborated with them as the director of the television series Spaced (1999–2001).
In 2010, Wright co-wrote, produced, and directed the comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Along with his friends Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat, he co-wrote Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011). Wright and Cornish co-wrote the screenplay for the Marvel Studios film Ant-Man in 2015, which Wright intended to direct but abandoned, citing creative differences. In 2017, Wright wrote, directed, and produced the action-thriller Baby Driver.
Wright was born in Poole, Dorset, but grew up predominantly in Wells in Somerset. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, he directed many short films, first on a Super-8 camera which was a gift from a family member and later on a Video-8 camcorder won in a competition on the television programme Going Live. These films were mostly comedic pastiches of popular genres, such as the super hero-inspired Carbolic Soap and Dirty Harry tribute Dead Right (which was eventually featured on the DVD release of Hot Fuzz).