
Production
Pippa Harris
Born 1967-03-27 · Lewisham, London, England, UK
Dame Philippa Jill Olivier Harris DBE (born 27 March 1967) is a British film and television producer. She co-founded Neal Street Productions in 2003 with Sam Mendes and Caro Newling. Harris was a script editor at ITV and Channel Four before becoming a development executive at BBC Films and then an executive producer for BBC Drama Serials. In that role, her projects included Warriors and Love in a Cold Climate. Harris became Head of Drama Commissioning for the BBC in 2001. Commissions during her time there included Daniel Deronda and The Lost Prince. Harris has executive produced several films, including Things We Lost in the Fire and Revolutionary Road, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. For TV, Harris produced Stuart: A Life Backwards, featuring Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch, and the executive produced Call the Midwife, Penny Dreadful, The Hollow Crown, and Britannia. Harris served as Adviser to the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg MP, with whom she had studied at Robinson College, Cambridge. For the film 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, Harris received various accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pippa Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
2016
6.5Learn how the one shot, 360-degree format was executed and the pivotal role Academy Award® winner Roger Deakins served in bringing Sam Mendes’ vision to life.
Allied Forces: Making 1917
2020
Behind the camera
7.7The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Hamnet
2025
8.0At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
1917
2019
6.2A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to fantastical lands, rekindling their family bond through adventures.
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026
NROne of four biopics, focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the perspective of John Lennon.
The Beatles: John
2028
6.6The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.
Empire of Light
2022
5.9When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert to investigate main suspect Jason Buliegh, a local sex offender and social outcast. Forced to release Jason from police custody, the Fairburns take matters into their own hands in an attempt to coerce a confession.
Blood
2012
6.4In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
Starter for 10
2006
7.4Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007
NROne of four biopics, focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the perspective of Paul McCartney.
The Beatles: Paul
2028
NROne of four biopics, focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the perspective of George Harrison.
The Beatles: George
2028
NROne of four biopics, focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the perspective of Ringo Starr.
The Beatles: Ringo
2028
7.5In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024