Tessa Ross
Tessa Sarah Ross CBE (born 1961) is an English film producer and executive. She received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. She was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour in 2013. She is an honorary fellow of the National Film and Television School. In the 2010 New Year Honours, she was appointed a CBE for services to broadcasting. Ross was designated Head of Film at Channel 4 in 2000 and ran Film4 and Film4 Productions from 2002 to 2014. In 2011, she was appointed to the Board of the Royal National Theatre and became Chief Executive in 2014. She resigned in April 2015, citing concerns over the new leadership structure, but continued working with the National Theatre as a consultant. Ross has been the executive producer of a number of notable British films, including Billy Elliot (2000), The Last King of Scotland (2006), This Is England (2006), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Hunger (2008), Four Lions (2010), 127 Hours (2010), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Under the Skin (2013), Ex Machina (2015), 45 Years (2015), Room (2015), and Carol (2015). For her work producing Conclave (2024), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture & won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tessa Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (51)
Conclave
Starve Acre
Bird
The Iron Claw
The Zone of Interest
The Wonder
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Our Kind of Traitor
Ex Machina
Room
Life
Carol
The Lobster
Suffragette
Macbeth
45 Years
Under the Skin
Frank
Cuban Fury
A Most Wanted Man
The Riot Club
Mr. Turner
The Double
Black Sea
'71
12 Years a Slave
Trance
How I Live Now
Seven Psychopaths
Hyde Park on Hudson
On the Road
Attack the Block
Submarine
Shame
The Iron Lady
Wuthering Heights
One Day
Four Lions
127 Hours
Another Year
Never Let Me Go
The Lovely Bones
Nowhere Boy
In Bruges
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Incendiary
This Is England
The Last King of Scotland
Isolation
Dead Man's Shoes
