Filmmakers

Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand has established a worldwide cinema audience with roles in a variety of films, including her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Marge Gunderson in the acclaimed Coen Brothers film Fargo. Other films include Nicole Holofcener's Friends with Money (Spirit Award nomination); Niki Caro's North Country (Academy Award, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominations); Lisa Cholodenko's critically acclaimed Laurel Canyon; Nancy Meyers' Something's Gotta Give; Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (Golden Globe, BAFTA Award, and Academy Award nominations, and several critics' awards); Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys; Michael Caton-Jones' City by the Sea, opposite Robert De Niro; Daisy Von Scherler Mayer's Madeline; Gregory Hoblit's Primal Fear; John Sayles' Lone Star; Alan Taylor's Palookaville; Mick Jackson's Chattahoochee, with Gary Oldman; Sam Raimi's Darkman, opposite Liam Neeson; Ken Loach's Hidden Agenda; Robert Altman's Short Cuts (Venice International Film Festival award for Best Ensemble and a Golden Globe Award for Best Ensemble Cast); John Boorman's Beyond Rangoon; Bruce Beresford's Paradise Road; and Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (Academy Award nomination).

With the Coen Brothers, she has made four other films; Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn't There, and the upcoming Focus Features release Burn After Reading, with George Clooney, Richard Jenkins, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, and Tilda Swinton.

Ms. McDormand has starred in the television films The Good Old Boys, directed by Tommy Lee Jones; Talking With… , directed by Kathy Bates; Crazy in Love, directed by Martha Coolidge; and Hidden in America (Emmy Award nomination), opposite Jeff Bridges and directed by Martin Bell.

She studied at the Yale School of Drama. Her stage successes include Caryl Churchill's Far Away, directed by Stephen Daldry, at the New York Theatre Workshop; her Tony Award-nominated performance as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire; The Sisters Rosenzweig, at Lincoln Center; The Swan, at the Public Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire (this time as Blanche), at the Gate Theater in Dublin; and Dare Clubb's Oedipus, at the Blue Light Theater Company, opposite Billy Crudup. Recently, she spent two years with The Wooster Group workshopping and then performing To You, The Birdie!

She will return to the Broadway stage this spring in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl, directed by Mike Nichols and starring opposite Morgan Freeman.

Amy Adams

Academy Award nominee Amy Adams recently starred for director Kevin Lima in the Disney film Enchanted, opposite Patrick Dempsey James Marsden, and Susan Sarandon. The film has grossed over $100 million to date. She also recently costarred in Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War, with Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Ms. Adams has completed filming Doubt, opposite Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by John Patrick Shanley, the film is based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

She is currently filming Julie & Julia, again starring with Meryl Streep. The film is based on Julie Powell's book of the same name and is being directed by Nora Ephron. Due out soon is Christine Jeffs' Sunshine Cleaning, in which Ms. Adams stars opposite Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin, a world premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2005, Phil Morrison's Junebug premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where Ms. Adams won a Special Jury Prize for Acting. For her performance in the film, she would later receive Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations; and win an Independent Spirit Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics' Choice Award, a National Society of Film Critics award, a San Francisco Film Critics Society award, and a Gotham Award.

Her other film credits include Adam McKay's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, opposite Will Ferrell; Clare Kilner's The Wedding Date, opposite Debra Messing; Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio; and Michael Patrick Jann's Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Ms. Adams' television appearances include ones on The Office and The West Wing.

Lee Pace

In his career overall, and in the past year alone, Lee Pace has starred on film, television, and stage.

He first came to industry attention at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival with his breakthrough performance in Soldier's Girl, written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Frank Pierson. Mr. Pace's portrayal in the feature earned him a Gotham Award as well as nominations for Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Awards.

He currently stars on the critically acclaimed hit television series Pushing Daisies, with Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, and Swoosie Kurtz. He had previously starred for series creator and executive producer Bryan Fuller in another show, Wonderfalls, opposite Caroline Dhavernas; the role of Ned in the new series was written for Mr. Pace.

His film work includes starring in Tarsem Singh's epic fantasy The Fall (which world-premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival), as well as roles in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd; Douglas McGrath's Infamous; Merchant Ivory's The White Countess; and Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist's soon-to-be-released Possession, in which he plays the male lead opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar.

An alumnus of NYC's Juilliard School, Mr. Pace began his acting career in theater. He most recently starred off-Broadway in Jason Moore's Culture Project staging of Peter Morris' play Guardians, opposite Kate Moenning, and earned a 2007 Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Leading Actor. He previously was nominated for that Award for his performance in Mark Wing-Davey's Playwrights Horizons production of Craig Lucas' play Small Tragedy, for which he shared an Obie Award with the ensemble cast.

His other off-Broadway works include Michael Mayer's Playwrights Horizons staging of Keith Bunin's The Credeaux Canvas and Lisa Peterson's Vineyard Theater production of Janusz Glowacki's The Fourth Sister.

Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds is currently starring on Broadway in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer.

He began his acting career with The Glasgow Citizens Theatre, and was a company member for many years. In Ireland, he has performed with the Lyric Theatre in Belfast; the Druid Theatre in Galway; and at the Project and the Abbey in Dublin, where he last appeared as Cuchulain in The Yeats Cycle. At Dublin's Gate Theatre, he has appeared in The Field Day Company's stagings of Antigone, The School for Wives, and The Yalta Game.

Mr. Hinds has toured internationally with Peter Brook's company in The Mahabharata and has starred with and/or at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court, the Donmar Warehouse and the National Theatre. It was at the latter that he originated the role of Larry in Patrick Marber's Closer, which he also played in the Broadway production.

Worldwide television audiences recently saw him as Julius Caesar in the series Rome; his portrayal was honored with an Irish Film & Television (IFTA) Award. This followed his starring roles in such telefilms and miniseries as David Thacker's The Mayor of Casterbridge, for which he also an IFTA Award; David Drury's Prime Suspect 3; and Robert Young's Jane Eyre, opposite Samantha Morton.

Mr. Hinds' many feature film credits include John Boorman's Excalibur and The Tiger's Tail; Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, The Wife, and Her Lover; Thaddeus O'Sullivan's December Bride; Pat O'Connor's Circle of Friends; Roger Michell's Persuasion and Titanic Town; Terry George's Some Mother's Son; Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda; Chris Menges' The Lost Son; Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight of Water; Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition; Phil Alden Robinson's The Sum of All Fears; Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls; Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin, for which he was an IFTA Award nominee, and The Phantom of the Opera; Steven Spielberg's Munich; Michael Mann's Miami Vice; Michael Apted's Amazing Grace; Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story; David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe; Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding; Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood; and Kimberley Peirce's soon-to-be-released Stop Loss.

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson grew up in Fife, Scotland and studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Since graduation, her stage career has included stints at the National Theatre (under the direction of Sir Peter Hall), the Royal Court, the Traverse, Hampstead, and the Citizens. She most recently starred in Anna Weiss at the Whitehall Theatre, directed by Michael Attenborough.

She starred on the television series Hamish Macbeth while also embarking on a film career. Her early credits include Michael Caton-Jones' Rob Roy and Danny Boyle's Trainspotting. Michael Winterbottom then cast Ms. Henderson in Wonderland; she has since reunited with the director on The Claim, 24 Hour Party People (for which she received a London Film Critics Circle award nomination), and Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.

She won a Scottish BAFTA Award for her performance in Juliet McKoen's Frozen, which also brought her Best Actress honors at the 2005 Marrakech International Film Festival and the 2006 Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film. She is the only actress to have won the latter award twice, having won three years prior for her work in Don Coutts' American Cousins. For the latter film, she was also voted Best Actress in the 2003 Bowmore/Scottish Screen/Sunday Times film awards, which are Scotland's Oscars equivalent.

Ms. Henderson was a British Independent Film Award nominee for Frank Van Passel's Villa des Roses and Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, for which she won the Best Actress award at the 2003 Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema.

Her other films include Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy, for which she was a London Film Critics Circle award nominee; John Crowley's Intermission; Sally Potter's Yes; Alison Peebles' award-winning AfterLife; Sharon Maguire's Bridget Jones's Diary and Beeban Kidron's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Shane Meadows' Once Upon a Time in the Midlands; Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette; Oliver Parker's I Really Hate My Job; Nick Moore's soon-to-be-released Wild Child; and, directed by Chris Columbus and Mike Newell, respectively, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Ms. Henderson's telefilms and miniseries include Joe Wright's award-winning Charles II: The Power and the Passion (a.k.a. The Last King); David Richards' The Taming of the Shrew; David Yates' The Way We Live Now; Adrian Shergold's Dirty Filthy Love; and Philip John's Wedding Belles.

Mark Strong

Mark Strong will soon be seen in a host of upcoming feature films. These include Ridley Scott's Body of Lies, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Jean-Marc Vallée's The Young Victoria, opposite Emily Blunt; Vicente Amorim's Good, with Viggo Mortensen; Mathieu Kassovitz' Babvlon A.D., opposite Vin Diesel; Baillie Walsh's Flashbacks of a Fool; and Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla.

Filmgoers have previously seen him in Matthew Vaughn's Stardust; Danny Boyle's Sunshine; Guy Ritchie's Revolver; Stephen Gaghan's Syriana; Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist; Kevin Reynolds' Tristan + Isolde; Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love; Mike Figgis' Hotel; David Evans' Fever Pitch; and István Szabó's Sunshine (1999), among other works.

Mr. Strong was a BAFTA Award nominee for his performance in Bille Eltringham's miniseries The Long Firm. His other telefilm and miniseries credits include Our Friends in the North, in segments directed by Simon Cellan Jones and Stuart Urban; Adrian Shergold's Low Winter Sun (which won the Scottish BAFTA Award for Best Drama) and Births, Marriages and Deaths; Pete Travis' The Jury and Henry VIII; David Drury's Trust; Diarmuid Lawrence's Emma, opposite Kate Beckinsale; Roger Michell's The Buddha of Suburbia; Danny Boyle's Screenplay episode "Not Even God Is Wise Enough;" and, opposite Helen Mirren for directors David Drury and Tom Hooper, respectively, Prime Suspect 3 and Prime Suspect 6.

He has also performed in radio and stage plays, and was an Olivier Award nominee for his performance in Sam Mendes' Donmar Warehouse staging of Twelfth Night (which he played in repertory with Uncle Vanya). U.K. audiences have seen him perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Danny Boyle's staging of Hess is Dead, among other productions; with the National Theatre, in four productions for Richard Eyre and Patrick Marber's Closer, among other shows; at the Royal Court, in Lindsay Posner's production of The Treatment and Hettie MacDonald's staging Thickness of Skin; and Peter Gill's New Ambassadors production of Speed-the-Plow.

Tom Payne

Tom Payne makes his feature film debut in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, and was cited in 2007 as one of Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow."

The U.K. native is a graduate of London's Central School of Speech and Drama, from which he earned his BA in Acting in 2005. At the School, he appeared in stagings of such plays as Class Enemy, The Balcony, The Rivals, Three Sisters, A Midsummer Night's Dream (as Bottom), Richard III, and The Man Who Had All the Luck.

Post-graduation, Mr. Payne starred in a lead role in David Grindley's sold-out New Ambassadors revival of Journey's End in London's West End; and played opposite Imogen Stubbs in Maria Aberg's Soho Theatre staging of Shrieks of Laughter.

He has also made appearances on U.K. television, in episodes of Skins and Casualty. He had a regular role on the hit show Waterloo Road; and has costarred in the telefilms Miss Marie Lloyd (directed by James Hawes) and He Kills Coppers (directed by Adrian Shergold) for Ecosse Films.

Bharat Nalluri

Bharat Nalluri most recently directed the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath, which was honored with Golden Globe Award nominations for actors Toni Collette, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Sophie Okonedo; and with three Emmy Award nominations, including one for Mr. Nalluri's direction.

Also for the production company Kudos Film & Television Ltd., he has directed episodes of the cop fantasy series Life on Mars, including the pilot (which earned him a BAFTA Award nomination); of the BAFTA Award-winning spy drama series Spooks (titled MI-5 in the U.S.); and of the hit caper series Hustle (which was based on an original idea of Mr. Nalluri's).

His previous features as director include a trio of thrillers. These are The Crow [III]: Salvation, which starred Kirsten Dunst opposite Eric Mabius; Downtime, starring Paul McGann opposite Susan Lynch; and Killing Time, starring Craig Fairbrass and Kendra Torgan.

Additionally, Mr. Nalluri directed the short film "Cyclops" for the U.K. anthology series Shockers; has produced and directed documentaries and entertainment shows; and was the second-unit director on Paul W.S. Anderson's Alien vs. Predator and Resident Evil.

Born in Guntur, India, he lives and works in the U.K.

David Magee

David Magee's first screenplay, Finding Neverland (which he adapted from Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan), was made into a feature film directed by Marc Forster and starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. The screenplay earned Mr. Magee an Academy Award nomination; he was also nominated for the Humanitas Prize and the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and BAFTA Awards, among others.

He originally studied theater directing and design. He worked for several years as an actor, performing in regional theaters across the U.S. and appearing on soap operas and performing voiceover work. During this time, he also supported himself by building sets for off-Broadway productions.

Mr. Magee's acting assignments narrating audiobooks led to an opportunity to write abridgements of novels. Over the course of five years, he wrote audio abridgements of more than 80 books by notable authors, including best-sellers from nearly every genre.

It was at a theater in East Hampton, Long Island that he wrote and performed his first play, Buying the Farm; the production was produced and directed by Nellie Bellflower, one of the producers of both Finding Neverland and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

Mr. Magee is currently developing a film about Kenyan naturalist and filmmaker Joan Root, for Julia Roberts and Working Title Films.

Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy's original screenplay for The Full Monty earned him the London Film Critics Circle award as well as Academy Award, BAFTA and Writers Guild of America Award nominations. The film, directed by Peter Cattaneo, was also nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, among other honors.

The U.K. native's other screenwriting credits include Among Giants, directed by Sam Miller and starring Pete Postlethwaite and Rachel Griffiths; and This Is Not a Love Song. The latter film was directed by Bille Eltringham, with whom Mr. Beaufoy co-directed the feature The Darkest Light, from his own original screenplay.

For Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day production company Kudos, Mr. Beaufoy most recently scripted the miniseries Burn Up. The thriller, revolving around the politics of oil depletion and climate change, will premiere on BBC2 in June 2008. Burn Up stars Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell and is directed by Omar Madha. Also at Kudos, Mr. Beaufoy's adaptation of Eva Ibbotson's children's novel The Journey to the River Sea is in development.

He is currently at work adapting Steven Hall's novel The Raw Shark Texts into a feature for Film4; his script Slumdog Millionaire, based on true events, is currently being filmed with Danny Boyle directing.

Nellie Bellflower

Nellie Bellflower founded the NYC-based independent film production company Keylight Entertainment in 2001. Keylight continues to develop feature projects.

Three years prior to forming Keylight, she had optioned the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, by Allan Knee; she subsequently commissioned David Magee to script the screen adaptation. As producer of the retitled Finding Neverland (with Richard Gladstein), Ms. Bellflower was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and the Producers Guild of America Award. The film, directed by Marc Forster, received many other honors and accolades around the world.

Ms. Bellflower began her industry career as an actress in film and television. In the early 1990s, she began directing plays in Los Angeles and then New York. Her first NYC show was Women in Heat, which she staged at the West Bank Café's Downstairs Theater. This was followed by her staging of Doris Davis' Summer Share, at Theater Row.

She produced and directed a series of stagings of new works, under the umbrella title "Champagne & Sunset," at the John Drew Theater in East Hampton, NY's Guild Hall. Spotlighting both new and established playwrights, the series was a premiere showcase for works by Christopher Durang, Tom Dulack, Murray Schisgal, Ron McLarty, and the aforementioned Allan Knee and David Magee.

Stephen Garrett

Stephen Garrett is joint managing director, with Jane Featherstone, of Kudos Film & Television Ltd., which he founded and which is now Britain's premier independent producer of television drama.

Mr. Garrett was executive producer of David Cronenberg's award-winning Eastern Promises (also a Focus Features release), which was the first project for the Kudos' new film division, headed by Paul Webster, to reach movie screens.

Since its inception in 1992, Kudos has produced such notable projects as the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath, helmed by Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day director Bharat Nalluri, which was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards; the hit caper series Hustle; the BAFTA Award-nominated cop fantasy series Life on Mars; Paul Lynch's International Emmy Award-winning The Magician's House; Grant Gee's Grammy Award-nominated feature documentary on Radiohead, Meeting People is Easy; and the BAFTA Award-winning spy drama series Spooks (titled MI-5 in the U.S.), which was based on an original idea of Mr. Garrett's and which gave Matthew Macfadyen his breakout role.

Currently in production, written by Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, is the miniseries Burn Up, directed by Omar Madha and starring Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell. On the feature side, Kudos is in production on the documentary The Crimson Wing, co-directed by Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward.

Mr. Garrett's producing credits also include Gillies MacKinnon's Pure, starring Keira Knightley; and Sam Miller's Among Giants, written by Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and starring Pete Postlethwaite and Rachel Griffiths.

Winifred Watson

Winifred Watson (1906-2002) resided in her native Newcastle for her entire life. Educated at St. Ronan's boarding school in Berwick-on-Tweed, it was expected that she would follow her older sisters to university. But shortly after World War I, her father's shoe stores business collapsed, and she was taken out of school at 16. After attending Commercial College, she started work as a secretary.

Challenged by her brother-in-law to write a better novel than the "awful nonsense" one she was reading, she wrote her first novel, Fell Top, during uneventful mornings at work and then stuck the manuscript in her attic and forgot about it.

Several years later, her eldest sister saw an agent's notice asking for new novelists to submit work and she and Winifred dug out Fell Top and sent it off - to an interested response. Winifred was advised to tell the agent she had a second novel in preparation, and as a result she was put under contract for her next four books at Methuen Publishing. The non-existent second novel then had to be written, and her wedding to Leslie Pickering was moved up by five months so that she could leave work and concentrate on writing the historical novel Odd Shoes.

Fell Top, a rustic tale of sexual jealousy and murder, was published in 1935 and made an instant name for the novelist. A radio adaptation of the novel followed, and Odd Shoes was published in 1936.

Winifred changed course with her next effort, and when presented with the draft of the progressive Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Methuen representatives were taken aback; they wanted "women's fiction." The author said to them in direct response, "You are wrong, Miss Pettigrew… is a winner," but she obliged with Upyonder - on the condition that Methuen also publish Miss Pettigrew… When both were published in 1938, the reception accorded Miss Pettigrew… proved its author right. There followed an American edition and a translation into French. In 1939, Winifred received a request for a German translation, while remarking, as she posted the letter agreeing to the deal, that she knew England would be at war with Germany by the time the letter was received.

By the time WWII broke out, she had written her fifth novel, Hop, Step and Jump (published in 1939) as well as her sixth and last novel, Leave and Bequeath (published in 1943).

Her son Keith Pickering was born during WWII. At the age of four months, he and his mother were alone in their house when it was demolished by a bomb. Obliged to move in with relatives, Winifred believed, "You can't write if you are never alone." In time, she and her husband and son again had a home of her own. By then she had reluctantly abandoned writing, as something which belonged to a different era.

She lived the next several decades as a homemaker, spending all of the earnings from her writing on Keith's education. In 2000, Persephone Books republished Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, which had remained her favorite of the works she had created so long ago.

Paul Webster

Paul Webster produced Joe Wright's award-winning Atonement and Pride & Prejudice for Focus Features and Working Title Films.

He is an independent film producer based in London. In 2004, he launched - with partners Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone - the feature film division of Kudos Film & Television Ltd., Britain's premier independent producer of television drama.

Mr. Webster most recently produced David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, also for Focus Features. The award-winning thriller starred Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, and Vincent Cassel, and was the first project for Kudos' new division to reach movie screens. Since its inception in 1992, Kudos has produced such notable projects as the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath, helmed by Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day director Bharat Nalluri, which was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards; the hit caper series Hustle; the BAFTA Award-nominated cop fantasy series Life on Mars; Paul Lynch's International Emmy Award-winning The Magician's House; Grant Gee's Grammy Award-nominated feature documentary on Radiohead, Meeting People is Easy; and the BAFTA Award-winning spy drama series Spooks (titled MI-5 in the U.S.), which gave Matthew Macfadyen his breakout role.

Currently in production, written by Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, is the miniseries Burn Up, directed by Omar Madha and starring Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell. On the feature side, Kudos is in production on the documentary The Crimson Wing, co-directed by Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward, for Walt Disney Pictures.

Mr. Webster was executive producer of Walter Salles' award-winning The Motorcycle Diaries (also a Focus release).

As the creator and head of FilmFour, the feature film arm of the U.K.'s Channel Four, he oversaw a slate of original productions from 1998 through 2002 that included such movies as Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers; Jez Butterworth's Birthday Girl; Gillian Armstrong's Charlotte Gray; and Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast (for which Sir Ben Kingsley received an Academy Award nomination).

Prior to forming FilmFour, Mr. Webster was head of production at Miramax Films for over two years. In that capacity, he supervised such Academy Award-winning films as Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting, and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love.

He had previously worked as a producer, both independently and with Working Title Films, during which time he produced such films as Mel Smith's The Tall Guy; Peter Medak's Romeo is Bleeding; and James Gray's Little Odessa, which won the Silver Lion Award at the 1994 Venice International Film Festival. He subsequently reteamed with the latter filmmaker as producer of The Yards.

Prior to segueing into his producing career, he ran Palace Pictures, the theatrical distribution arm of the U.K. production company Palace. Mr. Webster began working in the film industry in the mid-1970s, clerking at the (Notting Hill) Gate cinema.

Jane Frazer

Jane Frazer was co-producer on Joe Wright's award-winning Atonement and Pride & Prejudice, for Focus Features and Working Title Films.

She began her producing career in the mid-1980s, working with directors Stephen Frears (on My Beautiful Laundrette, as production manager) and Bernard Rose (on Paperhouse and Chicago Joe and the Showgirl, as associate producer), and then on Peter Medak's Let Him Have It (as associate producer).

From 1992 through 1999, Ms. Frazer worked as head of production for Working Title. Among the notable films that she oversaw there were Mike Newell's smash Four Weddings and a Funeral; the Academy Award-winning Dead Man Walking (directed by Tim Robbins) and Elizabeth (directed by Shekhar Kapur); Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, and Academy Award-winning Fargo; Roger Michell's blockbuster Notting Hill; and Stephen Frears' The Hi-Lo Country and High Fidelity.

She has also been co-producer on Robert Altman's Gosford Park, for which Julian Fellowes won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; and Mira Nair's Vanity Fair, also for Focus Features.

John de Borman

John de Borman was a BAFTA Award nominee for his cinematography of the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath, which was his first collaboration with Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day director Bharat Nalluri.

Mr. de Borman was an Independent Spirit Award nominee for his work on Michael Almereyda's Hamlet. In 2000, he was honored with the Evening Standard British Award for Best Technical/Artistic Achievement, given for his body of work in general and for his cinematography of Gillies Mackinnon's Hideous Kinky in particular. For the latter director, he has also shot the feature films Tara Road, Pure, Small Faces, and Trojan Eddie.

His other feature credits include as cinematographer include Peter Chelsom's The Mighty, Serendipity, and Shall We Dance; Nigel Cole's Saving Grace and A Lot Like Love; Bill Forsyth's Gregory's Two Girls; Tommy O'Haver's Ella Enchanted; Daisy V.S. Mayer's The Guru; and Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty, written by one of the Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy.

Mr. de Borman recently completed filming Joel Hopkins' Last Chance Harvey, starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.

Sarah Greenwood

Sarah Greenwood was an Academy Award nominee for her production design on Focus Features and Working Title Films' Pride & Prejudice. She has also collaborated with that film's director Joe Wright on the miniseries Nature Boy, Bodily Harm, and Charles II: The Power & the Passion (a.k.a. The Last King), earning a BAFTA Award nomination for her work on the latter; and, most recently, on Focus Features and Working Title Films' Atonement.

She had earlier been nominated for a BAFTA Award as production designer of Mike Barker's miniseries The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, for which she won a Royal Television Society Award.

Ms. Greenwood's other credits as production designer include Robert Bierman's Keep the Aspidistra Flying (a.k.a. A Merry War); Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, for the BBC; Sandra Goldbacher's The Governess; David Kane's This Year's Love and Born Romantic; and Tom Vaughan's Starter for Ten.

After graduating with a BA from the Wimbledon School of Art, she designed extensively for stage productions and later joined the BBC as a designer. She has also designed for television commercials.

Barney Pilling

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is the first feature film edited by Barney Pilling.

He has twice been nominated for a BAFTA Award, for his editing on episodes of the hit series Spooks (titled MI-5 in the U.S.) and Life on Mars. On the latter, he edited the first two installments, both helmed by Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day director Bharat Nalluri. The duo also teamed for the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath.

The first of Mr. Pilling's two years of work on another program, As If, earned him a Royal Television Society Award. He has also edited episodes of Hustle, Sea of Souls, and Hotel Babylon; and two seasons of the series No Angels.

Paul Englishby

Initially engaged to compose the "temp track" score for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Paul Englishby was subsequently asked to compose the film's complete original score.

This followed his composing the original scores for Debbie Isitt's Confetti and Andrew O'Connor's Magicians; the theme music score for the series of "Ten Minutes Older" short films by such directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, and Jim Jarmusch; and orchestrating the original music for such films as Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane (scored by Adrian Johnston), and John Madden's Proof and Michael Radford's Flawless (both scored by Stephen Warbeck).

Mr. Englishby has scored stage plays for The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and the Royal National Theatre, among other troupes; and such West End shows as the revival of Bedroom Farce. His music was most recently heard in the RSC hit Merry Wives, staring Dame Judi Dench.

As orchestrator and pianist, he has been in concert halls with some of the U.K.'s leading ensembles, such as The London Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, London Musici, Tallis Chamber Choir, Fibonacci Sequence, and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

While still a student, Mr. Englishby was commissioned by the BBC and the Arts Council to devise and compose a short music film. The result was Pictures on the Piano. He has continued to work with the BBC and other production companies on radio and television music and film scores.

Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor was the costume designer on Kevin Macdonald's The Last King of Scotland, starring Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker; and most recently completed work on Saul Dibb's The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes.

His other feature credits as costume designer include Ismail Merchant's The Mystic Masseur; Dave Moore's telefilms The Star, Tom Brown's Schooldays, and Wallis & Edward; and Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane.

Mr. O'Connor was assistant costume designer on such features as Chris Columbus' Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Philip Kaufman's Quills; and Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy, on which he worked with Academy Award winner Lindy Hemming.

He has also designed the costumes for a number of U.K. stage productions, among them the New End Theater's staging of Benchmark.