
Keira Knightley is one of today's true rising stars in films.
She is known to audiences worldwide for her performances in Gore Verbinski's blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, starring opposite Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom for producer Jerry Bruckheimer; Gurinder Chadha's sleeper hit Bend It Like Beckham (for which she was honored with the London Critics Circle Award for British Newcomer of the Year); and Richard Curtis' ultimate romantic comedy Love Actually, also for Working Title Films.
Ms. Knightley next stars in Tony Scott's action thriller Domino, as real-life bounty hunter Domino Harvey. She is currently at work filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (the first of two sequels to be filmed back-to-back), reunited with the original cast and filmmakers and joined by Pride & Prejudice costar Tom Hollander.
The U.K. native acquired an agent at an early age, and appeared in her first television drama (Ferdinand Fairfax' Royal Celebration) at the age of 6. Her subsequent television credits included playing Lara in Giacomo Campiotti's miniseries remake of Doctor Zhivago (opposite Hans Matheson).
Ms. Knightley's first big-screen role was as a handmaiden in George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Among her subsequent films were Gillies Mackinnon's Pure; Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (again for producer Jerry Bruckheimer), as Guinevere; and John Maybury's The Jacket.
Matthew Macfadyen has become best known to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for his compelling portrayal of government agent Tom Quinn in the hit series MI-5 (originally titled Spooks in the U.K.).
The series (costarring Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, and Peter Firth) has enjoyed three successful seasons on the BBC and, subsequently (in the U.S.), on the A&E Network. The program takes an authentic and dramatic look inside the operations of Britain's national security service and at the high personal and professional stakes for its agents.
Mr. Macfadyen is now also making a name for himself in films. After small but pivotal roles in Ben Elton's Maybe Baby (with Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson), Michael Apted's Enigma (with Dougray Scott and Kate Winslet), and Paul McGuigan's The Reckoning (with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe), he played his first lead film role (opposite Miranda Otto) in Brad McGann's In My Father's Den. The dramatic thriller attracted attention from the worldwide film industry.
Mr. Macfadyen's acting career began with extensive schooling. He attended Oakham School in Rutland, Leicestershire, where he was a drama scholar from 1990 to 1992. On leaving Oakham, he was accepted at the famed Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
He graduated from RADA to join the innovative Cheek by Jowl theatre company, and made his professional stage debut in the troupe's production of The Duchess of Malfi. He also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and School for Scandal, and on international tours.
In 1998, Mr. Macfadyen starred again with Cheek by Jowl, as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, opposite Saskia Reeves as Beatrice. The production "crossed the pond" to the U.S., playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
In 1999, he was nominated for the prestigious RSC Ian Charleson Award for Best Classical Actor under 30.
At that time, Mr. Macfadyen began working in U.K. television, taking a role in David Skynner's telefilm remake of Wuthering Heights. He was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for his first television starring role, in Peter Kosminsky's BAFTA Award-winning BBC drama Warriors. He subsequently starred opposite Sir Michael Gambon in Stephen Poliakoff's miniseries Perfect Strangers, again winning acclaim.
His subsequent U.K. television miniseries appearances include David Yates' BAFTA Award-winning The Way We Live Now and Peter Kosminsky's The Project.
Mr. Macfadyen's most recent stage appearance is in Nicholas Hytner's National Theater production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, starring as Prince Hal opposite Sir Michael Gambon's Falstaff, through August 2005.
Brenda Blethyn will next be seen starring onscreen in another Focus Features release, Gaby Dellal's On a Clear Day, opposite Peter Mullan.
Her performance in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies gained the actress international recognition, as she won Best Actress honors from the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, the Cannes International Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. She was also nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Academy Award.
Ms. Blethyn was again nominated for an Academy Award, as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance in Mark Herman's Little Voice, which also brought her BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, and Golden Globe Award nominations. She has been nominated a third time for the latter, for her performance in Nigel Cole's Saving Grace.
Her other film credits include Cherie Nowlan's upcoming Clubland; John McKay's Piccadilly Jim (with Tom Hollander of Pride & Prejudice); Kevin Spacey's Beyond the Sea; Nicole Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing; Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It; and Nicolas Roeg's The Witches.
Ms. Blethyn was an Emmy Award nominee for her performance in Robert Dornhelm's miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story. Her other notable television credits include Christopher Menaul's Belonging (for which she earned a BAFTA Award nomination); Benjamin Ross' RKO 281 (as Louella Parsons) and Roger Michell's miniseries The Buddha of Suburbia.
She has been acting on the stage for 30 years, and recently starred on Broadway in Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother, opposite Edie Falco for director Michael Mayer.
In 2000, Ms. Blethyn was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
Donald Sutherland's career as an actor encompasses over 100 films.
These include such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's MASH; Alan J. Pakula's Klute (opposite Jane Fonda); Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (opposite Julie Christie); John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Federico Fellini's Casanova; John Landis' National Lampoon's Animal House; Robert Redford's Ordinary People (opposite Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton); and Oliver Stone's JFK.
Mr. Sutherland's many other films include Paul Mazursky's Alex in Wonderland; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Bob Clark's Murder by Decree; Richard Marquand's Eye of the Needle; Richard Pearce's Threshold; Euzhan Palcy's A Dry White Season; Fred Schepisi's Six Degrees of Separation; Barry Levinson's Disclosure; Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill; Robert Towne's Without Limits; Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys; F. Gary Gray's The Italian Job; and Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain.
In addition to Pride & Prejudice, he will shortly be seen starring in Griffin Dunne's Fierce People (opposite Diane Lane); Robert Edwards' Land of the Blind (opposite Ralph Fiennes); Aric Avelino's American Gun (opposite Sissy Spacek); James C.E. Burke's Aurora Borealis (opposite Louise Fletcher and Juliette Lewis); and Robert Towne's Ask the Dust (opposite Salma Hayek).
Mr. Sutherland won Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for his performance in Chris Gerolmo's Citizen X, and won a second Golden Globe Award for his performance in John Frankenheimer's Path to War.
He is currently at work on the new ABC dramatic series Commander in Chief, in which he stars as the Speaker of the House, opposite Geena Davis as the first female U.S. President.
While at Cambridge, Tom Hollander was in the university's Cambridge Footlights revue and played a much-celebrated Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Sam Mendes. His honors include a Best Actor nod from Time Out; and four Ian Charleson Awards from the London Critics Circle.
His stage and radio credits include productions of The Judas Kiss; The Government Inspector; Tartuffe; Mojo; and The Threepenny Opera (again directed by Sam Mendes, at the Donmar Warehouse). On U.K. television, he has appeared on Absolutely Fabulous, among other series; in the miniseries Wives and Daughters (directed by Nicholas Renton, with Rosamund Pike of Pride & Prejudice); and in the telefilms The Lost Prince (directed by Stephen Poliakoff) and Cambridge Spies (as Guy Burgess, directed by Tim Fywell).
Mr. Hollander's film credits include Robert Altman's Academy Award-winning Gosford Park; Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter's The Lawless Heart; Neil LaBute's Possession (also for Focus Features); Michael Apted's Enigma; Ben Elton's Maybe Baby; Rose Troche's Bedrooms and Hallways; Terry George's Some Mother's Son; Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty; John McKay's Piccadilly Jim (with Brenda Blethyn of Pride & Prejudice); Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine (again with Rosamund Pike of Pride & Prejudice); Robert Edwards' Land of the Blind (with Donald Sutherland of Pride & Prejudice); and, now in production, Gore Verbinski's two back-to-back Pirates of the Caribbean sequels (with Keira Knightley of Pride & Prejudice).
Rosamund Pike will shortly be seen starring in Andrzej Bartkowiak's sci-fi action thriller Doom.
At 16, she joined the National Youth Theatre, while continuing her studies at Oxford University and gaining a degree in English literature. Her first television roles were also undertaken during her studies - including leading roles in the miniseries Wives and Daughters (directed by Nicholas Renton, and with Pride & Prejudice costar Tom Hollander) and Love in a Cold Climate (directed by Tom Hooper, and adapted by Pride & Prejudice screenwriter Deborah Moggach).
In her recent return to the stage, Ms. Pike won critical praise for her starring role in Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde.
Her other films include Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine (again with Pride & Prejudice costar Tom Hollander) and Lee Tamahori's blockbuster Die Another Day (opposite Pierce Brosnan as James Bond).
Jena Malone made an unforgettable debut in the lead role of Anjelica Huston's Bastard Out of Carolina (based on the Dorothy Allison book of the same name), which aired on Showtime. Her performance earned her CableACE, Screen Actors Guild, and Independent Spirit Award nominations as well as a Young Artist Award.
A number of projects followed, with roles that firmly established her as a gifted young actor. She starred in another acclaimed Showtime telefilm, Martin Bell's Hidden in America; Robert Zemeckis' blockbuster Contact (as the young Jodie Foster character); Goldie Hawn's telefilm Hope (which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination); John Erman's "Hallmark Hall of Fame" telefilm Ellen Foster; Chris Columbus' popular Stepmom; and John Stockwell's telefilm Cheaters.
More recently, Ms. Malone has starred onscreen in one of the most talked-about films of recent years, Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko; Irwin Winkler's Life as a House; Peter Care's The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; Jordan Brady's American Girl (which she co-produced); Anthony Minghella's award-winning Cold Mountain; Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose; and Brian Dannelly's Saved!
Since playing Ophelia in Hamlet at the Old Vic 40 years ago, Judi Dench has received worldwide acclaim for a career marked by outstanding performances in both classical and contemporary roles and notable for encompassing the full range of the stage, television, and motion pictures. She has won 9 BAFTA Awards to date.
Ms. Dench received the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1970 for services to the theatre, and subsequently became a DBE (Dame of the British Empire) in 1998.
She won the Academy Award for her performance in John Madden's Shakespeare in Love, in addition to a BAFTA Award and the National Society of Film Critics citation. An earlier collaboration with the director, Mrs. Brown, earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination.
Ms. Dench was again an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee for both Lasse Hallström's Chocolat (for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award) and Richard Eyre's Iris (for which she won a BAFTA Award).
Her other feature film credits include David Hare's Wetherby; Merchant Ivory's A Room with a View (for which she won a BAFTA Award); David Jones' 84 Charing Cross Road; Charles Sturridge's A Handful of Dust (for which she won a BAFTA Award); Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet; Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini; Lasse Hallström's The Shipping News; Charles Dance's Ladies in Lavender; and four movies as spy boss "M" opposite Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, the most recent of which was Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day (which costarred Rosamund Pike of Pride & Prejudice).
Ms. Dench will soon be seen starring opposite Bob Hoskins in the title role of Stephen Frears' Mrs. Henderson Presents, and next begins work on Richard Eyre's Notes on a Scandal.
Her television work includes the long-running series As Time Goes By (starring opposite Geoffrey Palmer); the animated series Angelina Ballerina (starring opposite her daughter, Finty Williams); and Gillies Mackinnon's telefilm (also for Working Title) The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, for which she won BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards.
In recent years, Ms. Dench has starred onstage in David Hare's Amy's View (winning a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway production); Peter Hall's staging of The Royal Family; David Hare's The Breath of Life, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, with Dame Maggie Smith; and All's Well That Ends Well, for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and then the West End.
Joe Wright won a BAFTA Award for his work on the miniseries Charles II: The Power & The Passion (which aired in the U.S. as The Last King), which was his most recent directorial project. The miniseries, which starred Rufus Sewell, won two additional BAFTA Awards, and was nominated for three more.
His prior credits as director include another highly acclaimed miniseries, the epic drama Nature Boy (for which he was a BAFTA Award nominee), starring Lee Ingleby; the miniseries Bodily Harm, starring Timothy Spall; and the telefilm Bob & Rose (which won several international awards).
Mr. Wright has also directed two short films, The End (written by Kathy Burke, and aired on the U.K.'s Channel 4) and Crocodile Snap (starring Claire Rushbrook, and aired on the BBC). The latter was a BAFTA Award nominee.
He directed his first short film, Whatever Happened to Walthamstow Marshes, back in 1991, while enrolled at the Camberwell School of Arts. From 1991 to 1994, he studied Fine Art, Film and Video at St. Martin's.
In 1993, Mr. Wright was awarded a Fuji Film Scholarship to make The Middle Ground. As part of the development process, he spent six weeks teaching drama at Islington Green School, where the short was cast and subsequently filmed.Working Title Films, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since 1992, has become Europe's leading film production company, making movies that defy boundaries as well as demographics.
Working Title, founded in 1983, was recently presented with the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema at the Orange British Academy Film Awards [BAFTA, Britain's equivalent of the Oscar] and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. Together, Messrs. Bevan and Fellner have made more than 70 films that have grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide. Their films have won 4 Academy Awards (for Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking, Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo, and Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth), 20 BAFTA Awards (including ones for Richard Curtis' Love Actually and Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral), and prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals, among other honors. Messrs. Bevan and Fellner were recently made CBEs (Commanders of the British Empire).
In addition to those films mentioned above, Working Title's other worldwide successes include Roger Michell's Notting Hill; Mel Smith's Bean; Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; Peter Howitt's Johnny English; Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Chris and Paul Weitz' About a Boy; and both Bridget Jones movies (directed by Sharon Maguire and Beeban Kidron, respectively). The company has enjoyed long and successful creative collaborations with writer/director Richard Curtis; actors Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant; and the Coen Brothers filmmaking team, among others.
Upcoming Working Title films include Kirk Jones' Nanny McPhee, written by and starring Emma Thompson and also starring Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, and Kelly Macdonald; and Phillip Noyce's Hotstuff, starring Tim Robbins and Derek Luke.
In 1999, a new division, WT, was formed with the purpose of providing an energetic and creatively fertile home for key emerging U.K. film talent and lower-budgeted productions. Its first film, Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot, was released in 2000 and became an international critical and commercial hit. The film grossed over $100 million worldwide, earned three Academy Award and two Golden Globe Award nominations, and was named Best Feature at the British Independent Film Awards. The film's director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Lee Hall have reunited for a stage musical version, with newly composed songs by Sir Elton John. The production, marking Working Title's debut theatrical venture (co-produced with Old Vic Prods.), opened at London's Victoria Theatre in May 2005 to glowing reviews.
WT's subsequent films have included Mark Mylod's Ali G Indahouse, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, which was a smash in the U.K.; Marc Evans' acclaimed thriller My Little Eye; Terry Loane's Mickybo & Me; Damien O'Donnell's Rory O'Shea Was Here (also a Focus Features release), which won the Audience Award at the 2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival; and Edgar Wright's award-winning sleeper hit rom zom com (romantic zombie comedy) Shaun of the Dead (a Rogue Pictures release).
Paul Webster is an independent feature film producer based in London. In 2004, he formed Kudos Pictures with Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone.
He was executive producer of two recent award-winning features, Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries (also a Focus Features release) and Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void. He intends to continue his collaborations with Joe Wright and Working Title while nurturing his Kudos Pictures projects.
As the creator and head of FilmFour, the feature film arm of the U.K.'s Channel Four, Mr. Webster oversaw a slate of original productions from 1998 through 2002 that included such movies as Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers (starring Joaquin Phoenix); Jez Butterworth's Birthday Girl (starring Nicole Kidman); Gillian Armstrong's Charlotte Gray (starring Cate Blanchett); 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 (starring Emma Thompson), Peter Medak's Romeo is Bleeding (starring Gary Oldman), 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.
Deborah Moggach is a screenwriter and novelist.
She has written the screenplays for a number of television miniseries. These include Love in a Cold Climate (which she adapted from Nancy Mitford's novel, and which was directed by Tom Hooper and starred Rosamund Pike of Pride & Prejduice); Goggle Eyes (for which she won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, and which was adapted from Anne Fine's novel and directed by Carol Wiseman); Seesaw (directed by George Case, and for which she adapted her own novel); Final Demand (directed by Tom Vaughan); and Close Relations (directed by Michael Whyte).
Ms. Moggach's novels include the best-selling Tulip Fever and Porky.
The longtime head of film for Working Title Films, Debra Hayward recently transitioned into an exclusive deal to work as executive producer on a slate of films. The restructuring follows her being creatively responsible for Working Title's motion pictures, in conjunction with U.S. counterpart Liza Chasin.
Ms. Hayward joined Working Title in 1989 as producer's assistant on such films as Pat O'Connor's Fools of Fortune and Nick Ward's Dakota Road. She then segued into development, working on such diverse features as Hanif Kurieshi's London Kills Me and Vincent Ward's Map of the Human Heart.
Her credits as executive producer include Beeban Kidron's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Michael Lehmann's 40 Days and 40 Nights; Richard Loncraine's Wimbledon; Daisy von Scherler Mayer's The Guru; and Kirk Jones' upcoming Nanny McPhee, written by and starring Emma Thompson.
Ms. Hayward has co-produced, among other films, Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; Richard Curtis' Love Actually; Peter Howitt's Johnny English; Paul and Chris Weitz' About A Boy; John Madden's Captain Corelli's Mandolin; Sharon Maguire's Bridget Jones's Diary; Peter Hewitt's The Borrowers; and Shekhar Kapur's Academy Award-winning Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett.
As development executive, she was instrumental in bringing to the screen such films as Roger Michell's Notting Hill; Jake Scott's Plunkett & Macleane; Lawrence Kasdan's French Kiss; David Anspaugh's Moonlight and Valentino; Mario Van Peebles' Panther and Posse; and Mike Newell's smash Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Liza Chasin has served as president of U.S. production at Working Title Films since 1996. She most recently co-produced Sydney Pollack's hit The Interpreter, starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.
She was executive producer of Catherine Hardwicke's highly acclaimed debut feature Thirteen; Beeban Kidron's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; and Jonathan Frakes' Thunderbirds. Additionally, she co-produced Richard Curtis' Love Actually; and produced Richard Loncraine's Wimbledon, starring Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany.
Over the past decade, Ms. Chasin has been involved in the development and production of such acclaimed films as Tim Robbins' Academy Award-winning Dead Man Walking; Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Academy Award-winning Fargo; and Roger Michell's smash Notting Hill. She also co-produced Paul and Chris Weitz' About A Boy; Sharon Maguire's Bridget Jones's Diary; Stephen Frears' High Fidelity; and Shekhar Kapur's Academy Award-winning Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett.
A graduate of NYU Film School, Ms. Chasin first joined Working Title in 1991 as director of development. She was then promoted to vice president of production and development, becoming the head of the Los Angeles office and overseeing the company's creative affairs in the U.S. Prior to joining Working Title, she worked for several years in various production capacities at New York-based production companies.
Jane Frazer was co-producer of Robert Altman's Gosford Park, for which Julian Fellowes won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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 Films. 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 most recently co-produced Mira Nair's Vanity Fair (also a Focus Features release).
For his cinematography of Asif Kapadia's award-winning epic The Warrior, Roman Osin won Best Cinematography at the San Sebastian International Film Festival; was honored with a British Independent Film Award; and was selected for Competition at the Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography. He recently reteamed with the director as cinematographer of an untitled supernatural thriller starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, to be released by Rogue Pictures.
Mr. Osin's other feature credits as cinematographer include Terry Loane's Mickybo and Me (for Working Title's WT² division); Paul Feig's I Am David; Maria von Heland's Big Girls Don't Cry; and Christos Georgiou's Under the Stars.
Pride & Prejudice marks Sarah Greenwood's fourth collaboration with director Joe Wright, following the miniseries Nature Boy, Bodily Harm, and Charles II: The Power & the Passion (a.k.a. The Last King). She earned a BAFTA Award nomination for her work on the latter.
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; and David Kane's This Year's Love and Born Romantic.
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.
Ms. Greenwood is currently at work on Tom Vaughn's Starter for Ten, which David Nichols has adapted from his novel of the same name.
Paul Tothill first worked with Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright on the miniseries Charles II: The Power & The Passion (a.k.a. The Last King).
He started his editing career at the BBC. In addition to several Royal Television Society Award nominations, he has received five BAFTA Award nominations, for his work on the following television miniseries: Bille Eltringham's The Long Firm; Stephen Poliakoff's Perfect Strangers; Andy Wilson's Gormenghast; Metin Hüseyin's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; and Anthony Page's Middlemarch.
Mr. Tothill's other credits include Stephen Poliakoff's miniseries Shooting the Past; Beeban Kidron's miniseries Murder; Simon Cellan-Jones' segments of the epic miniseries Our Friends in the North; and Shane Meadows' A Room for Romeo Brass.
Jacqueline Durran began her career as costume designer working with Mike Leigh on All or Nothing. They collaborated again on Vera Drake, starring Imelda Staunton, for which Ms. Durran won the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design.
Her other credits include David Mackenzie's Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor, and Sally Potter's Yes, starring Joan Allen and Sam Neill. Prior to those, Ms. Durran's credits, as assistant costume designer, include Mike Leigh's Academy Award-winning Topsy-Turvy; Simon West's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; and Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day (which costarred Rosamund Pike of Pride & Prejudice).
Fae Hammond has been responsible for hair and make-up on a number of films. These include Peter Medak's Let Him Have It; Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth; Antonia Bird's Ravenous (on which her make-up work earned her a Saturn Award nomination); Guy Ritchie's Snatch and Swept Away; Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale; Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers; and Charles Dance's Ladies in Lavender (starring Judi Dench of Pride & Prejudice).
She was the make-up designer for Giacomo Campiotti's miniseries remake of Doctor Zhivago, which starred Pride & Prejudice leading lady Keira Knightley.
Ms. Hammond is currently at work on Tom Hooper's miniseries Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons.
Dario Marianelli's film credits as music composer include two BAFTA Award winners, Michael Winterbottom's In This World (which also won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival) and Asif Kapadia's The Warrior.
He has also composed the music for Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm; David Thewlis' Cheeky; Tim Fywell's I Capture the Castle; Julien Temple's Pandaemonium; Philippa Collie-Cousins' Happy Now; Paddy Breathnach's I Went Down (which won four awards at the San Sebastián International Film Festival); and Ailsa; and two soon-to-be-released films, Michael Caton-Jones' Shooting Dogs and Peter Cattaneo's Opal Dream.
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