Barbara Broccoli

Barbara Dana Broccoli, OBE ( born June 18, 1960 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film producer. She is the daughter of the famous James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli ( 1909-1996 ).

Life

After visiting the St. Vincent 's College in Los Angeles, broccoli graduated in film and television communications at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles ) and began working then in the casting and production departments of the film production company Eon Productions Ltd..

At the age of 22, she took over in 1983 the assistant director for the James Bond film Octopussy, and later on in the face of death. At the productions of The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989 ) she has been involved as a production assistant. The death of her father (who died at an old age in 1996 ) led them to continue his work. She took over since the Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan mid-1990s, along with her ​​step- brother Michael G. Wilson ( born 1943 ) the post of producer. She sat by, among other things, that the role of M was occupied by Judi Dench with a woman.

Away from " Bond" Broccoli has her own independent production company Astoria Productions, with which she the television film Crime of the Century produced in 1996 for the American pay-TV network HBO, directed by Mark Rydell. This film about the kidnapping of the 14- month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was nominated in the category of TV movies or mini-series for four Golden Globes.

She is Chair of the " First Light " program, the filmmaker initiative of the British Film Council. In addition, she is responsible for the excellent musical version of the Fleming children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was a great success in London and New York with Michael G. Wilson.

Barbara Broccoli has been married to producer Frederick Zollo.