Andrea Calderwood is a British film and television producer, born in
Paisley, Scotland.
She won a
British Academy of Film and Television Award for Best British Film for her work on ''
The Last King of Scotland
''The Last King of Scotland'' is a novel by journalist Giles Foden,
published by Faber and Faber in 1998. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and pol ...
''. She produced the HBO television mini-series ''
Generation Kill''.
In 2012, Scottish newspaper
''The Herald'' put her as number 42 in its list of Scotland's top 50 influential women of 2012. She produced the film ''
Half of a Yellow Sun'', which premiered in 2013 at the
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ...
.
In 2019, she produced ''
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind'', distributed by
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a ...
.
Filmography
Films
Television
References
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Living people
British television producers
British women television producers
British film producers
Year of birth missing (living people)