Andrea Calderwood
British film and television producer
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Andrea Calderwood is a British film and television producer. She produced Mrs Brown (1997) and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019), which was distributed by Netflix.
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Andrea Calderwood | |
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in 2019 by Scotland Malawi Partnership | |
| Born | Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Education | University of Stirling |
| Occupations | Film producer, television producer |
Life
Calderwood was born in Paisley, Scotland.[1][2] She took film and media studies at University of Stirling.[3] Aged 28, she was appointed BBC Scotland head of drama.[4] In 2000, she founded the production company Slate Films.[5]
She won a British Academy of Film and Television Award for Best British Film for her work on The Last King of Scotland (2006).[6] She produced the HBO television mini-series Generation Kill (2008).[7]
In 2012, Scottish newspaper The Herald put Calderwood as number 42 in its list of Scotland's top 50 influential women.[8] She produced the film Half of a Yellow Sun, which premiered in 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival.[9][10] In 2019, she produced The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, distributed by Netflix.
Filmography
Films
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Die, My Love | Producer | |
| 2024 | Rob Peace | ||
| 2019 | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | ||
| 2018 | The Little Stranger | ||
| 2017 | Woman Walks Ahead | ||
| 2016 | Our Kind of Traitor | ||
| 2015 | Trespass Against Us | ||
| 2014 | A Most Wanted Man | ||
| 2013 | Half of a Yellow Sun | ||
| Kiss the Water | Executive producer | ||
| 2010 | I Am Slave | Producer | |
| 2006 | The Last King of Scotland | ||
| Cargo | |||
| 2002 | Once Upon a Time in the Midlands | ||
| 2001 | Hotel | Executive producer | |
| The Hole | |||
| 2000 | The Claim | ||
| It Was an Accident | |||
| There's Only One Jimmy Grimble | |||
| Love's Labour's Lost | Associate producer | ||
| 1999 | The Darkest Light | Executive producer | |
| Ratcatcher | |||
| An Ideal Husband | |||
| 1998 | Jilting Joe | ||
| 1997 | Mrs Brown | ||
| 1996 | Initiation | ||
| Small Faces | |||
| 1995 | Nervous Energy | ||
| 1994 | Marooned | Producer | |
| 1992 | Sealladh | ||
| Blue Black Permanent | Location Manager | ||
| 1988 | The Dressmaker | Production Trainee | |
Television
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Field of Blood | Executive producer | Mini-series |
| 2008 | Generation Kill | Producer | |
| 1998 | Invasion: Earth | Executive producer | |
| Looking After Jo Jo | Various episodes | ||
| 1997 | Bumping the Odds | TV movie | |
| The Missing Postman | |||
| 1996 | The Crow Road | 5 episodes | |
| Flowers of the Forest | TV movie | ||
| Nightlife | |||
| Truth or Dear | |||
| 1995–1997 | Hamish Macbeth | 15 episodes | |