Alison Mary Owen (born 18 February 1961) is an English film producer.Profile, The Guardian, 19 February 2004.POwerlist, The Guardian, 8 March 2012. Her credits as a producer include Moonlight and Valentino (1995), Elizabeth (1998), Sylvia (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Proof (2005), The Other Boleyn Girl (2007), Brick Lane (2007), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Tulip Fever (2017) and Back to Black (2024).
Life Owen was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, into a Roman Catholic family.Lily Allen "Big Read" interview, nme.com. Retrieved 11 July 2022. 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.Profile, The Daily Telegraph, 19 May 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
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. 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. She also had a relationship with comedian Harry Enfield who was a common-law stepfather to Owen's children. She is married to art director Aaron Batterham.
In 2017, the National Portrait Gallery acquired an early portrait of Owen by photographer David Gwinnutt for its permanent collection.
Career 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. Her production company is Ruby Films.
Filmography YearFilmDetail1991Hear My Song1993The Young Americans1995Moonlight and Valentino1998Elizabeth2001Happy Now?2003Sylvia2004Shaun of the Dead2005Proof2007Brick Lane2008The Other Boleyn Girl2011Jane Eyre2013Saving Mr. Banks2014The GiverExecutive producer2015Suffragette2017Tulip Fever2019How to Build a Girl2024Back to Black
Awards and nominations
|1995 |Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era |BAFTA TV Award for Best Best Light Entertainment (Programme or Series)
|rowspan="3"|1999 |rowspan="3"|Elizabeth |BAFTA Award for Best British Film
|Academy Award for Best Picture
|BAFTA Award for Best Film
|rowspan="2"|2010 |Temple Grandin |Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie
|Small Island |BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial
|2011 |Temple Grandin |Producers Guild of America Award for Best Long-Form Television
|rowspan="2"|2014 |Saving Mr. Banks |BAFTA Award for Best British Film
|Saving Mr. Banks |Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
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