Stephen Woolley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stephen Woolley
Occupation	Film Producer
Date Of Birth	Sep 3, 1956(1956-09-03)
Age	68
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Stephen Woolley Biography

Stephen Woolley is one of the most popular and richest Film Producer who was born on September 3, 1956 in London, England, United Kingdom. Stephen Woolley (born 3 September 1956) is an English film director and producer, his prolific career spans more than three and a half years. He was presented with the BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in February of 2019. As a producer , he has been nominated for Oscars in the film The Crying Game (1992) as well as directing multiple Academy Award- nominated films, including Mona Lisa (1986), Little Voice (1998), Michael Collins (1996), The End of the Affair (1999), Interview with a Vampire (1994), and Carol (2016). He is the current director of Number 9 Films, a production house Number 9 Films with his partner Elizabeth Karlsen.

Woolley has a wife, fellow producer Elizabeth Karlsen, with whom Woolley founded Number 9 Films in 2002.

Woolley’s directorial debut, the 2005 film Stoned, was a biopic of Brian Jones.

Woolley and Powell were the founders of Scala Pictures, where they produced Backbeat (1994), Little Voice (1998), Twenty Four Seven (1997), and a number of low-budget UK films. In the same time, he signed the rights to three of his films from Warner Brothers and made three films together with Jordan following the global box-office success The Vampire: Interview with the Vampire. Woolley and Jordan founded a business, Company of Wolves funded by DreamWorks which is which is where In Dreams (1999), The Actors (2003), Intermission (2003) And Not I (2000) were created under this umbrella.

Stephen Woolley Net Worth

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

Woolley’s debut film as director was The Company of Wolves (1984) however his professional life began in the year 1976 when he was an usher at the art-house cinema in London, The Screen on the Green in Islington which was run by Romaine Hart (OBE). Then he joined the exhibition section of the cinema collective The Other Cinema in Charlotte Street in the West End of London, after which he went on to establish and operate The Scala Cinema, his own Repertory Theatre, The Scala Cinema, in the same location. The Scala Cinema moved in 1981 to the vicinity of King’s Cross railway station. In the same year, he founded Palace Video in partnership with Nik Powell, in the beginning of the 1980s, to distribute the genres of cult cinema as well as international films which were the basis of his cinema programming. Palace Video titles included David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977) as well as Derek Jarman’s The Tempest (1979), and Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (1982). It then morphed into a distribution company for theatrical films that was later renamed Palace Pictures, where Woolley was the producer behind the UK release of French famous movie Diva (1981) and Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981), Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas (1984) and one of the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple (1984) and Rob Reiner’s When Harry Met Sally (1988) in addition to films made by John Cassavetes, John Waters, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Peter Greenaway, Fassbinder and Bertolucci. Palace Pictures moved into film production in 1984 with their debut film The Company of Wolves – directed by Neil Jordan (the first of numerous film projects Woolley together with Jordan would later collaborate on). A number films from Palace Pictures projects were first funded through Channel 4, and Woolley also assisted in the establishment of numerous first-time directors, including Michael Caton-Jones as well as Richard Stanley. Woolley formed an alliance with Miramax who released a variety of Palace films in the United States, including Scandal (1989), A Rage in Harlem (1991), Hardware (1990) and The Crying Game (1992).

Woolley established his fame through a string of low budget , but high-quality productions however, he began to develop bigger and more exciting projects. Following a few box office disappointments, and the downturn that weakened Nik Powell’s parent company in the year 1992, Palace Pictures was forced to shut down. In the year following, The Scala Cinema’s 12-year lease was terminated at the same time as it was sacked in a court proceeding was due to the illicit screening A Clockwork Orange, whose rights to screen had been removed from the UK by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, and the financial crisis of Palace led to its demise in 1993.

Number 9 films was set up in 2002, with longstanding producing partner Elizabeth Karlsen, whose films include Breakfast on Pluto (2005), How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2008), Made in Dagenham (2010), Great Expectations (2012), Their Finest (2015) The Limehouse Golem (2016), and On Chesil Beach (2017).

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Who is Stephen Woolley Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

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Top Facts about Stephen Woolley

1. Stephen Woolley is an English film producer known for his work in the British film industry.
2. He co-founded Palace Pictures, a successful independent film production company.
3. Woolley has produced critically acclaimed films like “The Crying Game” and “Carol.”
4. He has collaborated with renowned directors such as Neil Jordan and Todd Haynes.
5. Woolley’s films have received numerous awards and nominations, including Academy Awards.
6. He has worked on diverse genres, from dramas to historical adaptations.
7. Woolley is known for his ability to bring unique stories to the screen.
8. His productions often tackle social issues and explore complex characters.
9. Woolley’s career spans over several decades, making him a respected figure in the industry.
10. He continues to contribute to the British film landscape with new projects.