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Biography
Alison Mary Owen (born 18 February 1961) is an English film producer.
Her credits as a producer include Moonlight and Valentino (1995), Elizabeth (1998), Sylvia (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Proof (2005), The Other Boleyn Girl (2007), Brick Lane (2007), Chatroom (2010), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Tulip Fever (2017).
Personal life
Owen was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, to Mary Kathleen (née Hitchiner), a Royal Navy dockyard worker, and Peter Ronald Owen, chief petty officer in the Royal Navy, and was the younger of two daughters. Her elder sister is Jill Beatrice Owen (born 1959).
Alison Owen has three children: pop singer Lily Allen and actor Alfie Allen (by her ex-husband, Keith Allen), and Sarah Owen, a daughter from a previous relationship. She is married to art director Aaron Batterham, who has four children of his own.
Career
She first started working at Limelight doing music videos. Later she then produced her first movie Hear My Song and a TV series called Diary of a Teenage Health Freak. Then she worked for Working Title (who were part owned by PolyGram). She set up the low-budget film division.
Filmography
- Tulip Fever
- Suffragette (2015)
- The Giver (2014; executive producer)
- Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
- Jane Eyre (2011)
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
- Brick Lane
- Proof (2005)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Happy Now? (2001)
- Elizabeth (1998)
- Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
- The Young Americans (1993)
- Hear My Song (1991)