Andrea Calderwood

Andrea Calderwood
in 2019 by Scotland Malawi Partnership
Born	Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)	Film producer, television producer

Andrea Calderwood is a British film and television producer. She produced Mrs Brown and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind which was distributed by Netflix.

Life

Calderwood was born in Paisley, Scotland. ^{[1] [2]} She won a British Academy of Film and Television Award for Best British Film for her work on The Last King of Scotland . ^[3] She produced the HBO television mini-series Generation Kill . ^[4]

In 2012, Scottish newspaper The Herald put her as number 42 in its list of Scotland's top 50 influential women. ^[5] She produced the film Half of a Yellow Sun , which premiered in 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival. ^{[6] [7]} In 2019, she produced The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind , distributed by Netflix.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2025	Die, My Love	Producer
2024	Rob Peace
2018	The Little Stranger
2017	Woman Walks Ahead
2016	Our Kind of Traitor
2015	Trespass Against Us
2014	A Most Wanted Man
2013	Half of a Yellow Sun
	Kiss the Water	Executive producer
2010	I Am Slave	Producer
2006	The Last King of Scotland
	Cargo
2002	Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
2001	Hotel	Executive producer
	The Hole
2000	The Claim
	It Was an Accident
	There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
	Love's Labour's Lost	Associate producer
1999	The Darkest Light	Executive producer
	Ratcatcher
	An Ideal Husband
1998	Jilting Joe
1997	Mrs Brown
1996	Initiation
	Small Faces
1995	Nervous Energy
1994	Marooned	Producer
1992	Sealladh
	Blue Black Permanent	Location Manager
1988	The Dressmaker	Production Trainee

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2011	The Field of Blood	Executive producer	Mini-series
2008	Generation Kill	Producer
1998	Invasion: Earth	Executive producer
	Looking After Jo Jo		Various episodes
1997	Bumping the Odds		TV movie
	The Missing Postman
1996	The Crow Road		5 episodes
	Flowers of the Forest		TV movie
	Nightlife
	Truth or Dear
1995-1997	Hamish Macbeth		15 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. Solomons, Jason; French, Philip (14 February 2010). "Who's tipped for glory at the Baftas?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
4. "Andrea Calderwood". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
5. "Meet Scotland's top 50 influential women | numbers 39–46". The Herald. 12 January 2012.
6. Daniels, Nia (23 April 2013). "Half of a Yellow Sun producer Andera Calderwood on filming in Nigeria". KFTV.
7. Calderwood, Andrea (11 May 2014). "The importance of Nigerian film Half a Yellow Sun". Screendaily . Retrieved 5 September 2022.