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Jan 19, 2009 · Ross, 47, has become like a mother figure to Britain's film industry, nurturing new talent and nursing more established directors who might be feeling unloved.
Ross was born to a Jewish family in 1961 in London. The daughter of a lawyer and teacher, she attended Westminster School, and graduated from Somerville College, Oxford in 1980. Ross read oriental studies and Chinese at Oxford and became interested in theatre.
Mar 1, 2010 · A married mother of three who studied Chinese at Oxford and previously worked at the BBC, Ross is bright and chatty but endlessly self-effacing in that British don’t-mind-me sort of way.
Mar 26, 2014 · Mike Leigh, who has just finished Mr Turner with Film4, said: “An inspired producer, a profoundly intelligent commissioner, a tough leader and British Cinema’s first true Earth Mother, Tessa...
Oct 4, 2013 · All these films have one thing in common: Tessa Ross, the ridiculously self-effacing head of Film4, who picked up a Bafta for outstanding contribution to cinema earlier this year, is behind...
Tessa Ross was born in 1961 in London, England, UK. She is a producer, known for Billy Elliot (2000), The Wonder (2022) and Carol (2015). She is married to Scantlebury.
Tessa Ross, currently controller of Film and Drama for Channel 4 television, is to join the National Theatre as chief executive.
