- Peter is actress Helen Mirren's good luck charm in that he wrote The Queen (2006), for which she won her first Best Actress Oscar, and the play "The Audience" (2015), for which she won her first Tony Award.
- Began his writing career when he was head-hunted to write training videos on the strength of a student play (co-written with Mark Wadlow) he had staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
- Ranked #28 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
- He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama. He is a screenwriter and playwright.
- Has a degree in Fine Art from the University of Leeds.
- Was in a relationship with actress Gillian Anderson from 2016 to 2020.
- Is fluent in English and German.
- Tends to write screenplays about real-life characters and events.
- His father, Arthur Morgenthau, a German Jew, fled the Nazis. His mother, Inga (Bojcek), was Polish, and fled the Soviets. After they had emigrated to the UK, they chose the new surname Morgan, an Anglicization of Morgenthau.
- One of 115 invitees to join AMPAS in 2007.
- His play, "Frost/Nixon", at the TimeLine Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for the 2011 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Play (Midsize).
- Is the father of five children: daughter Gioia Maria and sons Robin Leopold, Karel Benjamin, Victor and László.
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