Alison Owen

Owen was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, into a Roman Catholic family.^[3] Her parents were Mary Kathleen (née Hitchiner), a Royal Navy dockyard worker, and Peter Ronald Owen, chief petty officer in the Royal Navy, and was the younger of two daughters. Her sister is Jill Beatrice Owen.^[4]

Owen's first marriage (other sources simply say "relationship") started when she was a teenager in the 1970s, producing her first child, Sarah, in late December 1979, when Owen was an 18-year-old university student.^[5] She married actor Keith Allen in 1984, and they had two children together, pop singer Lily Allen and actor Alfie Allen, before divorcing in 1989.^[6] She also had a relationship with comedian Harry Enfield who was a common-law stepfather to Owen's children.^[7] She is married to art director Aaron Batterham.^[8]

In 2017, the National Portrait Gallery acquired an early portrait of Owen by photographer David Gwinnutt for its permanent collection.^[6]

She first started working at Limelight Records producing music videos. Later she produced her first film Hear My Song and a TV series called Diary of a Teenage Health Freak. She subsequently worked for Working Title Films, where she set up the low-budget film division.^[9] Her production company is Ruby Films.^[10]