Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis CBE (born 8 November 1956) is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director. One of Britain’s most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films, among them Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019).

Richard Curti’s Wife: Who Is Emma Freud?

Curtis lives in Notting Hill and has a country house in Walberswick, Suffolk with broadcaster Emma Freud; they have four children, including writer and activist Scarlet.

Freud was born in London on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud (1924–2009) and June Flewett, known as the actress Jill Freud. She is the great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Her younger brother is Matthew Freud, and her uncle was the painter Lucian Freud. Her father’s family were Jewish refugees.

In 1990 and 1991, Freud presented two series of Plunder,[4] a BBC2 chat show in which she interviewed guests including Spike Milligan, Harriet Harman, and Joanna Lumley, and co-hosted the BAFTA Craft Awards with Kenneth Branagh.