Andrea Gibb

Andrea Gibb

Nacimiento : , Greenock, Scotland, UK

Historia

Gibb was born in Greenock, Scotland. She studied drama and sociology at Glasgow University and then did a post-graduate teaching degree at Manchester Polytechnic before going on to do an acting course at the Drama Studio London. She acted regularly in theatre and television before she started writing. Her most high-profile role was as Deirdre, Calum Buchanan's girlfriend in All Creatures Great and Small. "When I was doing All Creatures, I had absolutely no desire, no intention, no belief that I could write," recalled Gibb in 2016. "It never occurred to me, and it was never something I imagined myself doing in the future. My writing career just happened, almost accidentally, and now I don't act very much at all. Occasionally I'll do the odd short film for a friend. I did a theatre job about three years ago that I absolutely loved. I miss actors and I miss that sense of camaraderie. You become a family." "I had just moved from London up to Liverpool because my partner at the time was made the associate director of the Everyman Theatre, so I moved with him. I was doing a fair bit of acting in the North West around Liverpool, including at the Everyman, but I still had a London agent, so I was going down for auditions all the time. She rang me and asked if I'd be interested in going up for All Creatures Great and Small because they were looking for a Scottish character. At first I thought it was to play a vet and I was really excited, then I read the script and, of course, it transpired that Deirdre worked at the Ministry of Agriculture." Gibb was also a regular presenter on the children's television programme Let's Pretend.[citation needed] She was shortlisted for The Dennis Potter Award with her screenplay Lucky Bag and then went on to win a Mental Health Media Award for the film Golden Wedding, which she wrote for BBC Scotland. She then wrote the screenplays for Dear Frankie and AfterLife. Both these films were shot in her home town of Greenock at exactly the same time. She has a small cameo role in Dear Frankie. Gibb was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Scotland award for best Screenwriter. She was nominated for a Scotland on Sunday/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award and won the Scottish Screen Bowmore filmmaker of the year award in 2005. She also won the Women in Film and Television Script award for her work on these two films.[citation needed] Gibb is currently in development with several projects including high-profile adaptations of Swallows and Amazons for BBC Films, Vikram Seth's An Equal Music for Cuba Pictures, Rose Tremain's The Road Home for BBC 2 and Andrea Gillies's Keeper for BBC1.

Perfil

Andrea Gibb

Películas

Elizabeth Is Missing
Writer
La mejor amiga de Maud, Elizabeth, ha desaparecido, pero mientras intenta resolver el misterio, la demencia amenaza con borrar todas las pistas, lo que le da a la búsqueda una urgencia conmovedora.
Golondrinas Y Amazonas
Screenplay
Cuatro niños sueñan con escapar del tedio de unas vacaciones de verano con su madre. Cuando por fin les dan permiso para acampar por su cuenta en una isla en medio de un gran lago, todos están encantados. Pero cuando llegan allí descubren que puede que no estén solos.
Nina's Heavenly Delights
Writer
Nina Shah es una joven mujer indo-escocesa que sufre una crisis de la identidad que regresa a su hogar cuando su padre muere repentinamente, Nina es forzada entonces a volver, para hacer funcionar el negocio familiar, un restaurante de comida hindú: el Curry House. Así vuelve a encontrarse con su amigo Bobbi, una drag queen bollywoodense. Asímismo conoce a Lisa, una carismática joven a quien el padre de Nina (sumido en deudas) le vendió la mitad del negocio. Nina se embarca en una misión personal que consistirá en ganar la competencia de restaurantes, Best of the West, un trofeo altamente apreciado en el mundo de la cocina hindú. Mientras tanto los sentimientos de Nina también se van complicando cuando comienza a descubrir que se está enamorando de Lisa.
Mi querido Frankie
Waitress
Historia de un niño de nueve años llamado Frankie (Jack Mcelhone) y de su madre, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), que siempre están moviéndose de un lugar para otro. Como no quiere contarle a su hijo la verdad, Lizzie se ha inventado una historia para satisfacer la curiosidad del pequeño Frankie. Cada cierto tiempo manda una carta a Frankie de su supuesto padre, que está embarcado en un navío viajando a tierras lejanas.
Mi querido Frankie
Screenplay
Historia de un niño de nueve años llamado Frankie (Jack Mcelhone) y de su madre, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), que siempre están moviéndose de un lugar para otro. Como no quiere contarle a su hijo la verdad, Lizzie se ha inventado una historia para satisfacer la curiosidad del pequeño Frankie. Cada cierto tiempo manda una carta a Frankie de su supuesto padre, que está embarcado en un navío viajando a tierras lejanas.
AfterLife
Writer
High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.