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. She took film and media studies at University of Stirling. Aged 28, she was appointed BBC Scotland head of drama. In 2000, she founded the production company Slate Films.
She won a British Academy of Film and Television Award for Best British Film for her work on The Last King of Scotland (2006). She produced the HBO television mini-series Generation Kill (2008).
In 2012, Scottish newspaper The Herald put Calderwood as number 42 in its list of Scotland's top 50 influential women. She produced the film Half of a Yellow Sun, which premiered in 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2019, she produced The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, distributed by Netflix.
Filmography Films Year Title Credit Notes 1988 The Dressmaker Production Trainee 1992 Blue Black Permanent Location Manager Sealladh Producer short film 1994 Marooned 1995 Nervous Energy Executive producer 1996 Small Faces Initiation 1997 Mrs Brown 1998 Jilting Joe 1999 An Ideal Husband Ratcatcher The Darkest Light 2000 Love's Labour's Lost Associate producer There's Only One Jimmy Grimble Executive producer It Was an Accident The Claim 2001 The Hole Hotel 2002 Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Producer 2006 Cargo The Last King of Scotland 2010 I Am Slave 2013 Kiss the Water Executive producer Half of a Yellow Sun Producer 2014 A Most Wanted Man A Little Chaos 2015 Trespass Against Us 2016 Our Kind of Traitor Executive producer 2017 Woman Walks Ahead Producer 2018 The Little Stranger Yuli 2019 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2024 Rob Peace Mother Mother 2025 Die My Love
Television Year Title Credit Notes 1995–1997 Hamish Macbeth Executive producer 15 episodes1996 Truth or Dear TV movie Nightlife Flowers of the Forest The Crow Road 5 episodes1997 The Missing PostmanTV movie Bumping the Odds 1998 Looking After Jo Jo Various episodes Invasion: Earth Mini-series 2008 Generation Kill Producer 2011 The Field of Blood Executive producer 2022-2024 Funny Woman 10 episodes 2023 The Buccaneers Producer 8 episodes 2026 Secret Service Executive producer 5 episodes
References
External links "On the Art of 'Making Movies Happen': An Interview with Andrea Calderwood", The International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, April 2011.