Rosie Alison
Rosie Alison, Lady Waterstone is a British television documentary director, film producer and novelist. Her debut novel, The [Very Thought of You (novel)|The Very Thought of You] was nominated for the 2010 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
Biography
Rosie Alison, was born in 1964. She studied English at Keble College, Oxford. She then spent over ten years working in television, as a producer-director of arts documentaries.Her documentary credits include The [South Bank Show], Omnibus, Bookmark, and Grand Designs. In 2001 Alison moved away from documentaries and into drama, joining David Heyman's production company Heyday Films.
She was a co-producer of The [Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)|The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas], and Is Anybody There?, an executive producer of Paddington and Paddington 2, and The [Light Between Oceans (film)|The Light Between Oceans], and a producer of Testament of Youth, and the 2020 adaptation of The [Secret Garden (2020 film)|The Secret Garden].
She has been a producer on several BBC TV dramas, including David Hare's intelligence thriller Page Eight, Christopher Hampton's ghost story The [Thirteenth Tale (film)|The Thirteenth Tale], the Andrea Levy adaptation The [Long Song (TV series)|The Long Song], and the BBC1 surveillance thriller The Capture.
She is married to Tim Waterstone, the founder of the Waterstones bookshop chain; their daughter is actress Daisy Waterstone.