David Yates Net Worth

As a prolific television director he is was responsible for the acclaimed directing of the political Thriller State of Play in 2003, the two-part drama Sex Traffic in 2004 and the HBO production The Girl in the Café in 2005. His parents died when he was young, he grew up in the village of Rainhill. After watching the 1975 Steven Spielberg film Jaws, he was inspired to pursue a career in the film industry. He completed the courses of sociology, political studies and literature at St Helens College, and then moved on to the University of Essex and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is married to Yvonne Walcott, who is the aunt of Arsenal football player Theo Walcott; they do not have any children together.