Barbara Broccoli

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Barbara Broccoli at a film premiere with Daniel Craig (2015)

Barbara Dana Broccoli OBE (born June 18, 1960 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American film producer , best known for producing the James Bond series of films , which she took over from her father.

Life

Broccoli is the daughter of the famous James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli (1909–1996) and the actress Dana Wilson Broccoli (née Natol). After the St. Vincent's College had visited in Los Angeles, broccoli graduated in film and television communications at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles) and began working then in the casting - and production departments of the film production company Eon Productions .

In 1983, at the age of 22, she became assistant director for the James Bond film Octopussy and later for In the Face of Death . She was already involved as a production assistant in the productions The Breath of Death (1987) and License to Kill (1989) . The death of her father (who died very old in 1996) prompted her to continue his work. She took over the post of producer along with her half-brother Michael G. Wilson since the Bond films with Pierce Brosnan in the mid-1990s . Among other things, she ensured that the role of M was filled with a woman by Judi Dench .

Apart from Bond , Broccoli has her own independent production company Astoria Productions , with which she produced the television film Crime of the Century , directed by Mark Rydell , for the American pay-TV broadcaster HBO . This film about the kidnapping of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards in the television feature or mini-series category. In 2017 she was involved in the production of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool .

She chairs the “First Light” program, the filmmaking initiative of the British Film Council. Furthermore, it is with Michael G. Wilson for the combined musical version of Fleming - children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang responsible was the great London and New York appeal.

Barbara Broccoli was married to the film and theater producer Frederick Zollo , with whom she has a daughter and from whom she divorced.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brooks Barnes: A Family Team Looks for James Bond's Next Assignment . In: The New York Times , November 6, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2015. 
  2. ↑ Meet your makers, Mr Bond ... how Cubby Broccoli kept it in the family , Evening Standard , August 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Broccoli, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broccoli, Barbara Dana (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , USA