Sue Birtwistle

Sue Birtwistle Elizabeth (* 1945 in Northwich, Cheshire, England) is a British television producer.

Life

Sue Birtwistle was born as the daughter of a railway worker in the English county of Cheshire. After she studied Drama and English at Coventry College of Education, she worked as a theater director from 1970 to 1972 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre and from 1973 to 1978 at the Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout. The early 1980s, she moved to television, where they henceforth produced several television films and series.

In 1986, she decided, along with screenwriter Andrew Davies, Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice ( Pride and Prejudice ) to adapt for television. 1993, production came with the help of the BBC rolling and there was a six-part television adaptation Pride and Prejudice ( Pride and Prejudice, 1995) starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth in the lead roles. Both in Britain and in the United States, the miniseries was a street sweeper. As a producer, it was Birtwistle, who convinced the then little-known British actor Colin Firth to accept the role of Mr. Darcy. Both had worked in 1987 for the television film Dutch Girls and Birtwistle was sure that Firth would be the ideal candidate for Darcy. Thanks to this role Firth eventually rose to become the star. For Pride and Prejudice Birtwistle was also nominated for the BAFTA TV Award and an Emmy. 1996 produced with Emma Birtwistle another adaptation of Austen novel for television in which Kate Beckinsale played the title role. For Pride and Prejudice and Emma Birtwistle wrote the accompanying book The Making of Pride and Prejudice (1995) and The Making of Jane Austen's Emma (1996). From 2007 to 2009 she was also responsible for the production conceived by her television series Cranford.

1969 Birtwistle met in Edinburgh to British theater and film director Richard Eyre, whom she married in 1973 and with whom she a daughter named Lucy (* 1975). Together they live in London and Gloucestershire.

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Awards

BAFTA TV Award

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