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Harold Pinter, (1930 – 2008) was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter, with a career that spanned more than 50 years. His plays include The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and Betrayal and his screenplays include The Servant, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Sleuth. Pinter directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. He was born and raised in Hackney, east London, was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, and worked in repertory theatre before achieving success as a writer. In his later years, he was known for his political activism and opposition to the war in Afghanistan, and the invasion of Iraq. Pinter's last stage performance was as Krapp in Becketts's play Krapp's Last Tape, for the Royal Court Theatre, in 2006.(more...)