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Tessa Sarah Ross CBE (born 1961) is an English film producer and executive. She received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. She was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour in 2013. She is an honorary fellow of the National Film and Television School. In the 2010 New Year Honours, she was appointed a CBE for services to broadcasting. Ross was designated Head of Film at Channel 4 in 2000 and ran Film4 and Film4 Productions from 2002 to 2014. In 2011, she was appointed to the Board of the Royal National Theatre and became Chief Executive in 2014. She resigned in April 2015, citing concerns over the new leadership structure, but continued working with the National Theatre as a consultant. Ross has been the executive producer of a number of notable British films, including Billy Elliot (2000), The Last King of Scotland (2006), This Is England (2006), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Hunger (2008), Four Lions (2010), 127 Hours (2010), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Under the Skin (2013), Ex Machina (2015), 45 Years (2015), Room (2015), and Carol (2015). For her work producing Conclave (2024), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture & won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tessa Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
January 1, 1961 (age 65)
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Filmography
76 films, 9 shows


The Zone of Interest
2023 · 1h 45m
country: United States
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.


The Day Shall Come
2019 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
An impoverished leader of a small religious commune in Miami is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for an FBI agent, who plans to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.


Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.


They Shall Not Grow Old
2018 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.


Trespass Against Us
2016 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad Cutler ends up caught between his father's archaic principles and trying to do right by his kids, whilst the full force of the law is finally catching up with him.


Our Kind of Traitor
2016 · 1h 48m
country: France
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.


Carol
2015 · 1h 58m
country: United Kingdom
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.


Suffragette
2015 · 1h 46m
country: France
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.


Room
2015 · 1h 58m
country: Canada
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.


The Lobster
2015 · 1h 59m
country: France
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.


Macbeth
2015 · 1h 53m
country: France
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.


Life
2015 · 1h 52m
country: Australia
In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.


45 Years
2015 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.


Ex Machina
2015 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.


Black Sea
2014 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.


Mr. Turner
2014 · 2h 30m
country: France
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.


'71
2014 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.


The Riot Club
2014 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.


A Most Wanted Man
2014 · 2h 1m
country: Germany
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.


Frank
2014 · 1h 35m
country: Ireland
A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.


The Double
2014 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.


Under the Skin
2014 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.


Cuban Fury
2014 · 1h 38m
country: France
Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to reignite his Latin fire.


12 Years a Slave
2013 · 2h 14m
country: United Kingdom
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.


How I Live Now
2013 · 1h 41m
country: Canada
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.


The Look of Love
2013 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.


Trance
2013 · 1h 41m
country: United Kingdom
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.


Hyde Park on Hudson
2012 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.


Seven Psychopaths
2012 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.


A Running Jump
2012 · 34m
country: United Kingdom
Gary attempts to buy a second-hand car. What should be a straightforward task is turned into something of a quest by various people, including dodgy East End car dealer Perry, Perry's taxi-driver dad, a garage owner called Derek, Perry's wife Debbie and couple of twins.


On the Road
2012 · 2h 22m
country: Brazil
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.


The Iron Lady
2011 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.


Shame
2011 · 1h 42m
country: Canada
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.


The Woman in the Fifth
2011 · 1h 24m
country: Poland
An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.


Wuthering Heights
2011 · 2h 4m
country: United Kingdom
Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, an isolated farm, develops over the years an insane passion for Cathy, his foster sister, a sick obsession destined to end tragically.


Attack the Block
2011 · 1h 28m
country: France
A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.


Submarine
2011 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.


One Day
2011 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.


127 Hours
2010 · 1h 34m
country: France
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.


Another Year
2010 · 2h 9m
country: United Kingdom
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.


Four Lions
2010 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.


Never Let Me Go
2010 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.


The Lovely Bones
2009 · 2h 16m
country: United Kingdom
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.


Nowhere Boy
2009 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.


Genova
2009 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.


Far North
2008 · 1h 29m
country: France
In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all who become involved with her. Saiva is cast out of her tribe of herders and grows up to live a nomadic existence with Anja, a young woman she adopts as an infant. Then Loki, an injured and starving soldier, stumbles into their isolated lives. The women nurse him back to health, but treachery, violence and doom await them all.


How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.


Happy-Go-Lucky
2008 · 1h 58m
country: United Kingdom
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.


In Bruges
2008 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.


Incendiary
2008 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.


Brick Lane
2007 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim (Simpson).


And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007 · 1h 32m
country: Ireland
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.


This Is England
2007 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.


Mischief Night
2006 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Everyone has Halloween, but in Yorkshire, they have Mischief Night, where madness and mayhem rule. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families—one white, one Asian—come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks—changing all their lives forever.


The Last King of Scotland
2006 · 2h 3m
country: United States
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.


Venus
2006 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.


Brothers of the Head
2006 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.


Isolation
2005 · 1h 35m
country: Ireland
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.


Enduring Love
2004 · 1h 40m
country: France
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...


Dead Man's Shoes
2004 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.


Like Father
2001 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
The last pits have closed, the redundancy money has been spent and a family is in crisis. 70 year old pigeon man Arthur Elliott is losing his allotment to the local authority’s coastal redevelopment scheme. Working as a trumpeter, teacher, club singer and club act agent, his son, 40 year old ex-miner Joe can just about scrape a living, but his marriage is breaking up. 10 year old Michael is left to grapple with his own realities as coalfield culture begins to disintegrate. Three generations struggle to come to terms with the past and find the ties that still bind them; three worlds unfold against the rich and extraordinary backdrop of East Durham.
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
2001 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
While hiding his own rapidly deteriorating eyesight, a detective investigates the murder of a black youth leader.


Liam
2001 · 1h 30m
country: France
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.


Billy Elliot
2000 · 1h 51m
country: France
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.


The Gift
1998 · 1h 30m
country: United States
When housewife Lynn learns of her terminal cancer she decides that her daughter Amy will not be left with the same sad legacy that she herself was left from her mother.


Our Boy
1998 · 1h 22m
country: United Kingdom
A parent's grief has no bounds. Our Boy tells the moving and tragic story of one couple’s struggle to come to terms with the disappearance and death of their only son. Woody, Sonia and their son, Lee, live contentedly in West Ham, London. When Lee is killed in a hit-and-run everyone grieves but Woody’s grief has no limit. His best friend, Phil, counsels revenge, while in the view of the ambitious Detective Constable Spence, Woody himself is the prime suspect. Woody searches for a way to react with extraordinary and touching results. Features award-winning performances by Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke.


Cold Enough for Snow
1997 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.


Robinson in Space
1997 · 1h 18m
country: United Kingdom
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly concentrate on ports, power stations, prisons, and manufacturing plants, but they also bring in various literary connections, as well as a few conventional landscapes.


Deep Secrets
1996 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
Gripping drama about an undercover police officer who infiltrates the Manchester underworld to investigate a brutal murder, and his method of getting to know what's happening is to seduce the gang leader's sexy wife


Eskimo Day
1996 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.