Alison Owen

Alison Owen is one of the U.K.'s leading film and television producers. Finding international success with Shekhar Kapur's multi-Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning historical drama Elizabeth (1998), starring Cate Blanchett, Owen has consistently produced award-winning film and television projects. Additional credits include The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Jane Eyre (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Suffragette (2015), and The Seven Time, as well as the Emmy Award-winning Temple Grandin (2010) and Small Island (2009). In 2016, Owen produced Me Before You for MGM, and collaborated again with MGM on The Hustle (2019), starring Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway.

In 2014, Owen founded the film and television company Monumental Pictures with fellow U.K. powerhouse producer Debra Hayward. Strong woman-driven stories make up Monumental's film and television slate, which includes the feature film How To Build A Girl (2019), adapted from Caitlin Moran's comedic bestselling novel of the same name and starring Beanie Feldstein, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim and won the FIPRESCI Prize. Owen soon begins prep on an Amy Winehouse biopic for Studio Canal with director Sam Taylor-Johnson.

For television, Owen has served as executive producer on three seasons of Hulu's critically acclaimed Harlots (2017-20). She is the executive producer of the hit BBC One sitcom Ghosts, now in its fifth season, as well as the U.S. version, now in its second season on CBS. Owen also executive produced Murder in Provence for Britbox and three seasons of Anne with an E (2017-20) for Netflix. She has also executive produced Riches for Amazon and ITV, the upcoming Mrs. Sidhu Investigates with Meera Syal for Acorn, Maryland with Suranne Jones for ITV, and Sanctuary, a seven-part returning series for AMC.