Alison Owen is an Emmy and Bafta-winning and Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated film and television producer.
Alison founded Monumental with Debra Hayward in 2014, where she has executive produced five series of the BAFTA-nominated comedy series Ghosts for BBC One, alongside Maryland for ITV, starring Suranne Jones, Eve Best and Stockard Channing, Sanctuary for AMC/Sundance Now, written by Debbie Horsfield, and Mrs Sidhu Investigates for Acorn, starring Meera Syal. Previously Alison produced crime series Murder In Provence, starring Roger Allam, Nancy Carroll and Keala Settle, for Britbox and ITV, and four seasons of Ghosts US for CBS. Alison also recently served as Executive Producer on Riches, created by Abby Ajayi, for ITVX/Amazon. Prior to this, Alison produced the critically acclaimed series Harlots for Hulu and ITV, starring Samantha Morton and Lesley Manville, Moira Walley-Beckett’s Anne of Green Gables adaptation Anne with an E for Netflix, and Shekhar Kapur’s Will for TNT.
Alison recently produced Back To Black, the Amy Winehouse biopic for StudioCanal/Focus and previously produced feature film How to Build a Girl (2019) starring Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen and Emma Thompson.
Finding international success producing Shekhar Kapur’s multi-Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning historical drama Elizabeth (1998), starring Cate Blanchett, subsequent producer credits include: The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Jane Eyre (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Suffragette (2015) and the Emmy award-winning Temple Grandin (2010). In 2016, Owen produced Me Before You for MGM, directed by Thea Sharrock and starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. 2019 saw another collaboration with MGM on The Hustle (2019), starring Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway.
Under her previous banner, Ruby Film and Television, Alison executive produced Stephen Poliakoff’s Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Dancing on the Edge, an original series for the BBC and Starz, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, John Goodman and Jacqueline Bisset, two series of the detective show Case Histories for the BBC and Masterpiece, starring Jason Isaacs, Emmy award-winning Small Island starring David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ruth Wilson and Naomie Harris and S. J. Clarkson’s Toast starring Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott and Oscar Kennedy.