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Beeban Kidron

  • Director
  • Producer
  • Writer
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Beeban Kidron in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
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She came to prominence with the much lauded adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'. Since then she's directed feature films, television dramas and documentaries. In 2008, she founded the charity called Filmclub with Lindsay Mackie. It has since grown to be one of the largest and most influential after-school clubs in the UK, attracting over 150,000 children and young people each week.

Filmclub screens 100 years of film from all over the world to its members. Inspirational, entertaining and with positive outcomes on literacy, social behaviour and cultural awareness, Filmclub members have the opportunity to review, discuss and meet professional film-makers.

In 2006, she was asked to build a web-site for the Guardian newspaper to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Greenham camp.
BornMay 2, 1961
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BornMay 2, 1961
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    • Won 1 BAFTA Award
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Known for

    Charlotte Coleman in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989)
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    7.7
    TV Mini Series
    • Director
    John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes, and Patrick Swayze in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
    To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
    6.9
    • Director
    • 1995
    InRealLife (2013)
    InRealLife
    5.7
    • Director
    • 2013
    Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger, and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
    Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    6.0
    • Director
    • 2004

    Credits

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    Director



    • InRealLife (2013)
      InRealLife
      5.7
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Storyville (1997)
      Storyville
      8.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2011
    • Antony Gormley: Making Space
      6.2
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2007
    • Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger, and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
      Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
      6.0
      • Director
      • 2004
    • Murder (2002)
      Murder
      7.3
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2002
    • Cinderella (2000)
      Cinderella
      5.6
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2000
    • Texarkana
      7.4
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1998
    • Vincent Perez and Rachel Weisz in Swept from the Sea (1997)
      Swept from the Sea
      6.7
      • Director
      • 1997
    • Omnibus (1967)
      Omnibus
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1996
    • John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes, and Patrick Swayze in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
      To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
      6.9
      • Director
      • 1995
    • John Hurt, Jonathan Pryce, and Vanessa Redgrave in Shades of Fear (1994)
      Shades of Fear
      6.1
      • Director
      • 1994
    • Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns (1993)
      Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns
      7.1
      • Director
      • 1993
    • Marcello Mastroianni, Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Marcia Gay Harden, and Jessica Tandy in Used People (1992)
      Used People
      6.2
      • Director
      • 1992
    • 4 Play (1989)
      4 Play
      6.1
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1991
    • Screenplay (1986)
      Screenplay
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1990

    Producer



    • Judi Dench and Ali Fazal in Victoria & Abdul (2017)
      Victoria & Abdul
      6.8
      • produced by
      • 2017
    • Streetkids United II: The Girls from Rio (2015)
      Streetkids United II: The Girls from Rio
      • executive producer
      • 2015
    • InRealLife (2013)
      InRealLife
      5.7
      • producer
      • 2013
    • Antony Gormley: Making Space
      6.2
      TV Movie
      • producer
      • 2007
    • Vincent Perez and Rachel Weisz in Swept from the Sea (1997)
      Swept from the Sea
      6.7
      • producer
      • 1997
    • Omnibus (1967)
      Omnibus
      7.2
      TV Series
      • producer
      • 1996
    • Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns (1993)
      Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns
      7.1
      • producer
      • 1993

    Writer



    • InRealLife (2013)
      InRealLife
      5.7
      • story
      • 2013
    • Storyville (1997)
      Storyville
      8.5
      TV Series
      • Writer
      • 2011

    Videos2

    InRealLife
    Trailer 1:44
    InRealLife
    Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Trailer 2:31
    Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Trailer 2:31
    Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

    Personal details

    • Alternative names
      • Baroness Beeban Kidron
    • Born
      • May 2, 1961
      • North London, England, UK
    • Spouse
      • Lee Hall2003 - present

    Did you know

    • Trivia
      In 1994, she gave birth to her first child, a son named Noah Kidron-Style (by her relationship with Spencer Style), on the last day of filming To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995). Noah is listed on the film's crew credits as "Best Baby" (a word play on the crew term "Best Boy"). She and Spencer Style later had a second child, a daughter, Blaze Kidron-Style.
    • Quotes
      So long as I haven't dropped the crown jewels, so long as people think that their Bridget is safe, so long as people know it's still OK to have a big arse and say the wrong thing and not be able to live up to this or that , all these expectations of what being a woman is, and they will still find romance and love and happiness, and all the things you want in a good life, then I've done my job. And maybe if the world was some other world, then it wouldn't be enough, but, right now, I think it's important. I don't want to be grand, but I think it's a little bit important.

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