Robyn Slovo is a South African film producer, based in the UK. Her work includes the 2000 film ''

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'', the 2006 film ''

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'', and the 2011 film '' Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy''.

Biography

Slovo started her career in theatre, before moving into the television and film industry, working first as a script editor and development executive for the

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, and then as a film producer for

Company Pictures Company Pictures is an independent British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. It was set up in 1998 by Charles Pattinson and George Faber, colleagues at BBC Films. Their first film was ''Mo ...

and

Working Title Films Working Title Films is a British film studio that produces motion pictures and television programs and is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a division of Comcast. The company was founded by Ti ...

. Slovo's family is

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. She is the daughter of

Joe Slovo Joe Slovo (born Yossel Mashel Slovo; 23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995) was a South African politician, and an opponent of the apartheid system. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Pa ...

and

Ruth First Heloise Ruth First (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti- apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police. Family and e ...

— both major figures in the anti-apartheid struggle who lived perilous lives of exile, armed resistance, and occasional imprisonment, culminating in her mother's assassination in 1982. A family memoir in the form of a feature film, '' A World Apart'', was written by her sister Shawn Slovo and starred

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. She played her mother in the film ''

'', also written by her sister Shawn Slovo. She is the youngest sister of novelist

Gillian Slovo Gillian Slovo (born 15 March 1952) is a South African-born writer who lives in the UK. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award. Early life and education Gillian Slovo was born on 15 March 1952 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her family moved ...

and screenwriter Shawn Slovo.

References

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Biography at Working Title FilmsBiography at Company Pictures
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