#𝚄𝙽𝚂𝙲𝚁𝙸𝙿𝚃𝙴𝙳𝚂 : dependent original character, daniel riley, for starstruckrpg.
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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚜𝚎𝚝. 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚔𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚍𝚒𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚜, 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎. 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛, 𝚕𝚘𝚠, 𝚋𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎; 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚎𝚝 𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚔𝚢, 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗, 𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚣𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝙳𝙻𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃𝚂, 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙲𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚢𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝙷𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜.
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full name: daniel gregory riley. d.o.b: june 2, 1982. age: forty. place of birth: belfast, ireland. current residence: los angeles, california. occupation: screenwriter & producer. marital status: married, currently separated. wife: julia sayre-sullivan. sexuality: heterosexual. positive traits: ambitious, meticulous, roguish. negative traits: abstracted, stubborn, workaholic. face claim: jamie dornan.
» daniel riley is the only son of seamus riley, a famed novelist known for his formulaic mystery-thrillers turned BBC productions, and josephine riley ( née kennedy ), an acclaimed stage actress who left the limelight to pursue her passion as a theatre director. on the cusp of daniel’s fifteenth birthday, the riley’s moved from belfast to london when a more prestigious career opportunity opened up for josephine at the west end theatre. here, daniel was exposed to a wider artistic circle of playwrights and scriptwriters who introduced him to various styles of writing and nurtured his affinity for storytelling.
» eleanor shaw, a family friend and creative writer, becomes a lasting influence in daniel’s life and on his career. she decides to take him under her wing and mentor him after daniel spends a year at uni and drops out. the burgeoning storyteller flourished under her tutelage, broadening his creative horizons and with eleanor’s thoughtful insight, encouraged daniel to delve deeper into his narratives to find the truth of each story.
» at the age of twenty-five, daniel published his first and only novella: kenmare. a story of a peaceful irish town that quickly becomes trapped in the depths of paranoia when a killer begins stalking its residents and a young journalist who tasks himself with solving the string of serial murders in the face of police incompetence. the novella initially had a tepid response, but gained a cult following due to the fact that it was redistributed as a product of seamus riley. quite literally. his father’s name was printed on every cover, joint interviews between father and son were booked, and seamus even wrote a foreword, enthusing over the prospect of his son following in his own footsteps.
» kenmare catches the eye of an up-and-coming director and after negotiations, acquiring a distributor, and scrounging up enough funding, daniel pens the screenplay and the novella is adapted into a short film. it’s met with critical success and quickly gained popularity among filmgoers, earning a BAFTA nomination for best short film. though, no accolades were bestowed upon the film from the nose bleeds of the royal albert hall, their little film proved to be the launching point of daniel’s screenwriting career.
» within the next few years, daniel pads up his resume with a handful of films, mostly in the horror and thriller genre, and establishes himself as a promising young writer in the industry. even securing an invite to variety’s writers on writers when one of his films receives some award season buzz and where he has a memorable roundtable discussion with charlotte sayre.
» and that’s how he was put into the path of julia sayre-sullivan. once the psychological thriller limited series emerged as a profitable medium and on the heels of audiences’ true crime obsession, daniel was approached by HBO to adapt kenmare into a miniseries. with some rewrites, the protagonist was changed to a seasoned, female journalist and the location was moved to the state of georgia. daniel and julia worked closely on developing this new iteration of his beloved character, and surprising nobody, that very same intimacy bled into a private, offscreen relationship that the writer and actress worked steadily to keep to themselves. always hungry for a new hollywood power couple to latch onto, the media settled for scraps and playful evasion during press tour until the pair tossed all caution to the wind, arriving together at the emmy awards and confirming every rumor. they both walked away with trophies that evening, though a few eagle-eyed fans noticed another prize glittering on julia’s ring finger.
» the union and success of kenmare brought new found fame and scrutiny to daniel’s life, earning him a contract with warner bros. to produce more streaming content in the same vein as his emmy and SAG winning series. much of his appeal, at least to the press, was being the husband of hollywood’s darling, which daniel didn’t mind. the accolades continued to roll in over the next few years, but it came at the detriment of his marriage which slowly, and oblivious to him, began to deteriorate. he had often laughed at the old adage that success came at a price, having enjoyed the luxury of an idyllic marriage and a flourishing career for a handful of years, but the other shoe inevitably dropped — after so many lauded projects, daniel felt immense pressure to constantly out-do himself with every new script.
» 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐌𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐄𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐍 after being blindsided and served with divorce papers. his contract with warner bros. is at its end and the network, now facing budget cuts, is giving him the runaround on renewing the contract. daniel’s focus as of late is salvaging his marriage while, ironically, becoming inspired enough by recent events to start penning a script in an attempt to reignite the flame. this is also to say that he’s been making a concentrated effort to keep his current ordeal under wraps and root himself in his work so as to not have his whole life become a complete spectacle.
𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨: alex garland, ari aster, johnny case (holiday), walter burns (his girl friday), c.k. dexter haven (the philadelphia story).
𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 : kenmare (short film, 2012), the guest (2014), the invitation (2016), nocturnal animals (2016), kenmare (limited series, 2017), upgrade (2018), the undoing (2020), the rental (2020), mothers’ instinct (adapting), sudden fear (upcoming).












