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Tessa Ross

Producer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1961 (64 years)
Tessa Sarah Ross CBE (born 1961) is a British film producer and executive. She was appointed Head of Film at Channel 4 in 2000 and ran Film4 and Film4 Productions from 2002 to 2014. Ross was appointed to the Board of the Royal National Theatre in 2011, and became Chief executive in 2014. She resigned in April 2015, citing concerns over the new leadership structure, but remained working with the National Theatre as a consultant. Ross received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award and was named as 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 awarded the CBE for services to broadcasting.

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).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Iron Lady
  • Submarine
  • '71
  • Nowhere Boy
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Life
  • Incendiary
  • The Woman in the Fifth
  • A Summer in Genoa

Known For

  • Conclave
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • The Lovely Bones
  • One Day
  • In Bruges
  • The Iron Claw
  • Never Let Me Go
  • The Wonder
  • Billy Elliot
  • Attack the Block
  • Four Lions
  • They Shall Not Grow Old
  • Sherwood (2022)
  • The Eagle
  • Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Hyde Park on Hudson
  • The Riot Club
  • Another Year
  • Brexit
  • Trespass Against Us
  • Incendiary
  • A Summer in Genoa
  • Bird
  • When Did You Last See Your Father?

Filmography

2024
2024
2023
2023
The Zone of Interest · as Executive Producer
2023
2023
The Good Mothers (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2023
Six Four (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2022
The Wonder · as Executive Producer
2022
Sherwood (2022) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2022
Life After Life (2022) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2020
Trigonometry (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2019
The Day Shall Come · as Executive Producer
2019
Brexit · as Executive Producer
2018
They Shall Not Grow Old · as Executive Producer
2016
Trespass Against Us · as Executive Producer
2016
Our Kind of Traitor · as Executive Producer
2015
Room · as Executive Producer
2015
Carol · as Executive Producer
2015
The Lobster · as Executive Producer
2015
Suffragette · as Executive Producer
2015
Macbeth · as Executive Producer
2015
Life · as Executive Producer
2015
45 Years · as Executive Producer
2014
Ex Machina · as Executive Producer
2014
Black Sea · as Executive Producer
2014
Mr. Turner · as Executive Producer
2014
'71 · as Executive Producer
2014
The Riot Club · as Executive Producer
2014
A Most Wanted Man · as Executive Producer
2014
Frank · as Executive Producer
2014
Cuban Fury · as Executive Producer
2013
The Double · as Executive Producer
2013
12 Years a Slave · as Executive Producer
2013
How I Live Now · as Executive Producer
2013
Under the Skin · as Executive Producer
2013
The Look of Love · as Executive Producer
2013
Trance · as Executive Producer
2012
Hyde Park on Hudson · as Executive Producer
2012
Seven Psychopaths · as Executive Producer
2012
A Running Jump · as Executive Producer
2012
On the Road · as Executive Producer
2011
The Iron Lady · as Executive Producer
2011
The Woman in the Fifth · as Executive Producer
2011
Wuthering Heights · as Executive Producer
2011
Shame · as Executive Producer
2011
One Day · as Executive Producer
2011
Attack the Block · as Executive Producer
2011
The Eagle · as Executive Producer
2010
Submarine · as Executive Producer
2010
127 Hours · as Executive Producer
2010
Another Year · as Executive Producer
2010
Never Let Me Go · as Executive Producer
2010
Four Lions · as Executive Producer
2009
Nowhere Boy · as Executive Producer
2009
The Lovely Bones · as Executive Producer
2008
Slumdog Millionaire · as Executive Producer
2008
Incendiary · as Executive Producer
2008
A Summer in Genoa · as Executive Producer
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People · as Executive Producer
2008
Happy-Go-Lucky · as Executive Producer
2008
In Bruges · as Executive Producer
2007
Far North · as Executive Producer
2007
Brick Lane · as Executive Producer
2007
When Did You Last See Your Father? · as Executive Producer
2006
Mischief Night · as Executive Producer
2006
This Is England · as Executive Producer
2006
Venus · as Executive Producer
2006
The Last King of Scotland · as Executive Producer
2005
Isolation · as Executive Producer
2005
Brothers of the Head · as Executive Producer
2004
Enduring Love · as Executive Producer
2004
Dead Man's Shoes · as Executive Producer
2001
Like Father · as Executive Producer
2001
In a Land of Plenty (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2000
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind · as Executive Producer
2000
Billy Elliot · as Executive Producer
2000
Liam · as Executive Producer
2000
Clocking Off (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2000
Second Sight (TV Series)
1999
Second Sight · as Executive Producer
1999
Births Marriages and Deaths (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1998
Maisie Raine (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1997
Our Boy · as Executive Producer
1997
Cold Enough for Snow · as Executive Producer
1997
Robinson in Space · as Executive Producer
1996
Deep Secrets · as Executive Producer
1996
Interview Day · as Executive Producer
1984
Screen Two (TV Series) · as Executive Producer

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