Sally Wainwright (born 1963) is a British
BAFTA winning television writer and playwright. She won the 2009 Writer of the Year Award given by the
RTS in 2009 for
Unforgiven. She is known for work on the BBC dramas
Happy Valley and
Last Tango in Halifax. The latter won BAFTA's award for best series, and Wainwright was voted best writer.