Beeban Kidron

Quick Facts

Full Name	Beeban Kidron
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	May 2, 1961(1961-05-02)
Age	63
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Beeban Kidron Biography

Beeban Kidron is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on May 2, 1961 in London, England, United Kingdom. Beeban Tania Kidron Baroness Kidron OBE (born 2 May 1961) is an English film producer, director and campaigner for children’s rights. She is also a an elected member of the UK House of Lords. As a director , she is most well- known for her directing her adaptations of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Kidron and her ex-partner, Spencer Style, have two sons together: Noah, son of Spencer Style Noah (born in 1994) as well as her daughter Blaze (born in 1997). She got married to writer Lee Hall in 2003.

Over the next few years Kidron made a number of TV films both at home and abroad, including Cinderella, Texarkana and Murder, for which she was nominated for a second Bafta. In 2004 she directed in the Bridget Jones series, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant.

Beeban Kidron started Filmclub in September 2006 with Lindsey Makie. Filmclub is an educational charity which sets up after-school film clubs in schools in England and Wales. The scheme is free to all state primary and secondary schools. The organisation was founded in September 2006, and after a successful pilot in 2007 launched by then Chancellor Gordon Brown, Filmclub officially launched across the country in June 2009.

After the huge great success in Oranges, Kidron continued to work for the BBC and made TV films, including Antonia and Jane, distributed by Miramax in the US as well as the TV film called Itch. In 1992, Kidron made the move to Hollywood to create Used People with Shirley MacLaine and Marcello Mastroianni. The year 1993 saw her selected for the film Unstrung Heroes, based on the memoir written from Franz Lidz, but dropped out after the studio, Largo placed the film in turnaround. In the same year, her return to UK to work with Winterson for another time to make filming the BBC documentary Great Moments in Aviation. In the following year, she came back in the States to film Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns, a hard hit documentary about The New York City sex industry.

Beeban Kidron Net Worth

Beeban Kidron is one of the richest Film Director from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Beeban Kidron 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1983, Kidron produced her first documentary Carry Greenham Home along with director Amanda Richardson. It was made in the same year they were in the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp during the anti-nuclear protests. The film was shown at the Berlin Film Festival and, to celebrate Greenham’s 25th anniversary, it was revived through The Guardian-backed website, www.yourgreenham.com.

The year 1988 was the time she produced her debut movie, Vroom, which starred Clive Owen in his debut film. The following year , she came to the forefront with an adaptation Jeanette Winterson’s memoir Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. The film won three Baftas including the top drama series or serial. Kidron also received an award for audience participation in the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. In 2010, The Guardian named Oranges the eighth-best TV show of all time.

In 1995, she made To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, a drag queen road movie starring Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze. In 1997, she made Amy Foster (Swept from the Sea), starring Rachel Weisz and Ian McKellen.

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Who is Beeban Kidron Dating?

According to our records, Beeban Kidron married to Lee Hall. As of December 1, 2023, Beeban Kidron’s is not dating anyone.

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Kidron was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

Facts & Trivia

Beeban Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Beeban Kidron celebrates birthday on May 2 of every year.

In 2013 Kidron directed, in a co-production between her and her husband Lee Hall’s production company Cross Street Films and Studio Lambert, the documentary InRealLife. The films explored teenagers and their relationship to the internet. It was this film that acted as a catalyst for her campaign work around children’s rights in the online world.