Andrea Calderwood

Andrea Calderwood
in 2019 by Scotland Malawi Partnership
Born
Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom
EducationUniversity of Stirling
OccupationsFilm producer, television producer

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.

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

YearTitleCreditNotes
2025Die, My LoveProducer
2024Rob Peace
2019The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
2018The Little Stranger
2017Woman Walks Ahead
2016Our Kind of Traitor
2015Trespass Against Us
2014A Most Wanted Man
2013Half of a Yellow Sun
Kiss the WaterExecutive producer
2010I Am SlaveProducer
2006The Last King of Scotland
Cargo
2002Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
2001HotelExecutive producer
The Hole
2000The Claim
It Was an Accident
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Love's Labour's LostAssociate producer
1999The Darkest LightExecutive producer
Ratcatcher
An Ideal Husband
1998Jilting Joe
1997Mrs Brown
1996Initiation
Small Faces
1995Nervous Energy
1994MaroonedProducer
1992Sealladh
Blue Black PermanentLocation Manager
1988The DressmakerProduction Trainee

Television

YearTitleCreditNotes
2011The Field of BloodExecutive producerMini-series
2008Generation KillProducer
1998Invasion: EarthExecutive producer
Looking After Jo JoVarious episodes
1997Bumping the OddsTV movie
The Missing Postman
1996The Crow Road5 episodes
Flowers of the ForestTV movie
Nightlife
Truth or Dear
1995–1997Hamish Macbeth15 episodes

References

  1. ↑ "Andrea Calderwood interview: In the line of fire". The Scotsman. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Mother of invention Andrea Calderwood was once written off as a wee lassie in a big job. Eight years later she was emerging as a creative heavyweight in the world of films". Herald Scotland. 31 August 2002. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Synnot, Siobhan (9 May 2014). "I got malaria and Thandie Newton was one of 40 of the cast and crew who got typhoid.. it's the toughest shoot I've done, says Scot Andrea Calderwood". Daily Record.
  4. ↑ "Surprise and anger at BBC's selection for head of drama". The Herald. 5 November 1993.
  5. ↑ "Scotland's top 50 powerful women". The Scotsman. 31 Aug 2004. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
  6. ↑ Solomons, Jason; French, Philip (14 February 2010). "Who's tipped for glory at the Baftas?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  7. ↑ "Andrea Calderwood". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  8. ↑ "Meet Scotland's top 50 influential women | numbers 39–46". The Herald. 12 January 2012.
  9. ↑ Daniels, Nia (23 April 2013). "Half of a Yellow Sun producer Andera Calderwood on filming in Nigeria". KFTV.
  10. ↑ Calderwood, Andrea (11 May 2014). "The importance of Nigerian film Half a Yellow Sun". Screendaily. Retrieved 5 September 2022.


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