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class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Screenwriter</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">2003–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="white-space:nowrap;">Notable work</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Writer of <i><a href="/wiki/Wild_Child_(film)" title="Wild Child (film)">Wild Child</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Michael Faircloth</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1987; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1991)<wbr /></div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">John LaViolette</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2002; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2016)<wbr /></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2, including <a href="/wiki/Phoebe_Dahl" title="Phoebe Dahl">Phoebe Dahl</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Neal" title="Patricia Neal">Patricia Neal</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Olivia_Dahl" title="Olivia Dahl">Olivia Dahl</a> (sister)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tessa_Dahl" title="Tessa Dahl">Tessa Dahl</a> (sister)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theo_Dahl" class="mw-redirect" title="Theo Dahl">Theo Dahl</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ophelia_Dahl" title="Ophelia Dahl">Ophelia Dahl</a> (sister)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Dahl" title="Sophie Dahl">Sophie Dahl</a> (niece)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Logsdail" title="Nicholas Logsdail">Nicholas Logsdail</a> (first cousin)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lucy Neal Dahl</b> (born 4 August 1965) is a British screenwriter. She is one of the daughters of British author <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a> and American actress <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Neal" title="Patricia Neal">Patricia Neal</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucy_Dahl&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dahl wrote the screenplay for <i><a href="/wiki/Wild_Child_(2008_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wild Child (2008 film)">Wild Child</a></i> based on her own experience at the independent school <a href="/wiki/Abbot%27s_Hill_School" title="Abbot's Hill School">Abbot’s Hill</a> in Hertfordshire, and the experiences of her daughters growing up in LA. She also served as a consultant on <i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_(film)" title="Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a></i>, based on her father's book of the same name. She is also a content contributor to the online food and wine magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Zester_Daily" title="Zester Daily">Zester Daily</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucy_Dahl&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dahl was born at <a href="/wiki/John_Radcliffe_Hospital" title="John Radcliffe Hospital">John Radcliffe Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has been married twice. She married first, in 1987, Michael Faircloth, with whom she has two daughters, <a href="/wiki/Phoebe_Dahl" title="Phoebe Dahl">Phoebe Dahl</a> (born 4 November 1988) and Chloe Michaela Dahl (born 12 September 1990). The couple divorced in 1991. Dahl's second marriage was in 2002, to John LaViolette. They divorced in 2016.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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href="/wiki/Kiss_Kiss_(book)" title="Kiss Kiss (book)">Kiss Kiss</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twenty-Nine_Kisses_from_Roald_Dahl" title="Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl">Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Switch_Bitch" title="Switch Bitch">Switch Bitch</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_and_Six_More" title="The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_Roald_Dahl" title="The Best of Roald Dahl">The Best of Roald Dahl</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(short_story_collection)" title="Tales of the Unexpected (short story collection)">Tales of the Unexpected</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/More_Tales_of_the_Unexpected" title="More Tales of the Unexpected">More Tales of the Unexpected</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Roald_Dahl_Omnibus" title="The Roald Dahl Omnibus">The Roald Dahl Omnibus</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Two_Fables" title="Two Fables">Two Fables</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ah,_Sweet_Mystery_of_Life:_The_Country_Stories_of_Roald_Dahl" title="Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl">Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Collected_Short_Stories_of_Roald_Dahl" title="The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl">The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Roald_Dahl_Treasury" title="The Roald Dahl Treasury">The Roald Dahl Treasury</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Automatic_Grammatizator" title="The Great Automatic Grammatizator">The Great Automatic Grammatizator</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Skin_and_Other_Stories" title="Skin and Other Stories">Skin and Other Stories</a></i> (2000)</li> 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(2016 film)">The BFG</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Revolting_Rhymes_(film)" title="Revolting Rhymes (film)">Revolting Rhymes</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry:_Willy_Wonka_and_the_Chocolate_Factory" title="Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory">Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Witches_(2020_film)" title="The Witches (2020 film)">The Witches</a></i> (2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical_(film)" title="Matilda the Musical (film)">Matilda the Musical</a></i> (2022)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_(film)" title="The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (film)">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</a></i> (2023)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wonka_(film)" title="Wonka (film)">Wonka</a></i> (2023)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_and_Three_More" title="The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More</a></i> (2024)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Twits_(film)" title="The Twits (film)">The Twits</a></i> (2025)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Film scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bells_of_Hell_Go_Ting-a-ling-a-ling#1966_film" title="The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling">The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling</a></i> (1966, unfinished)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)" title="You Only Live Twice (film)">You Only Live Twice</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang" title="Chitty Chitty Bang Bang">Chitty Chitty Bang Bang</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Digger" title="The Night Digger">The Night Digger</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Willy_Wonka_%26_the_Chocolate_Factory" title="Willy Wonka & 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