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Debra Hayward
Frost/Nixon, exce produced by Debra Hayward
Debra Hayward is an Executive Producer who serves as Head of Film for Working Title Films. She is creatively responsible for the company’s entire slate of motion pictures in conjunction with her US counterpart, Liza Chasin.
Debra joined The Script Factory as a '' in Autumn 2009.
Hayward joined Working Title in 1989 as a producer’s assistant on such films as Fools of Fortune and Dakota Road and then moved to the development department, where she worked on such diverse films as 1991’s London Kills Me and 1993’s Map of the Human Heart. Hayward most recently served as executive producer on Frost/Nixon (nominated for 5 Oscars® and 6 BAFTAS), Atonement (Winner of Best Film at the BAFTAs and Best Motion Picture –Drama at the Golden Globes), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (in which Cate Blanchett was Oscar®-nominated for reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth), and the Paul Greengrass-directed historical drama United 93. She served in the same capacity on The Boat That Rocked, a comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s, directed by Richard Curtis, and thriller State of Play, based on the BBC TV mini series, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Kevin Macdonald.
She also served as co-producer on the international hit, Mr Bean’s Holiday, the suspenseful thriller The Interpreter, starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn and directed by Sydney Pollack. Additional recent co-producer credits include; Richard Curtis’ worldwide hit Love Actually; Johnny English, starring Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbruglia and John Malkovich; and the award-winning About a Boy. She also executive-produced Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Nanny McPhee.
Hayward’s additional co-producing credits include the worldwide smash Bridget Jones’s Diary, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, the lauded Elizabeth, The Matchmaker and The Borrowers. As a development executive, she was instrumental in helping to bring such films as Notting Hill, Plunkett & Macleane, French Kiss, Moonlight and Valentino, Panther, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Posse to the screen. She also served as associate producer on Loch Ness.
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