Andrea Gibb

Gibb was born in Greenock, Écosse. She etude drama and sociology at Université de Glasgow and then did a post-graduate teaching degree at école Polytechnique de Manchester before going on to do an intérim course at the Drama Studio de Londres. She acted regularly in theatre and television before she started writing. Her most high-profile role qu'as Deirdre, Calum Buchanan's girlfriend in All Creatures Great and Small. "When I was doing All Creatures, I had absolutely no desire, no intention, no belief that I could write," recalled Gibb en 2016. "It never occurred to me, and it was never something I imaginé myself doing in the future. My writing career just happened, almost accidentally, and now I don't act very much at all. Occasionally I ll do the odd short film for a friend. I did a theatre job about three years ago that I absolutely j'ai adoré. I miss actors and I miss that sense of camaraderie. You become a family." "I had just moved from London up to Liverpool because my partner at the time was made the associate director of the Everyman Theatre, de sorte I moved with him. I was doing a fair bit of acting in the North West autour de Liverpool, including at the Everyman, but I still had a Londres l'agent, ainsi, I was going down for auditions all the time. She rang me and asked if i'd be interested in going up for All Creatures Great and Small because they were looking for a Scottish character. At first I thought it was to play a vet and I was really excited, then I read the script and, of course, it transpired that Deirdre worked at the Ministry of Agriculture." Gibb donc, ce qui a regular presenter on the children's television programmes Let's Pretend.[citation needed] She ce que shortlisted for The Dennis Potter Award with her screenplay Lucky Bag and then went on to win a Mental Health Media Award for the film Golden Wedding, which she wrote for BBC Scotland. She then wrote the screenplays for Dear Frankie and AfterLife. Both these film were shot in her home town of Greenock at exactly the same time. She has a small cameo role dans Dear Frankie. Gibb ce que nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Scotland award du meilleur Scénariste. She ce que nominated for a Scotland on Sunday/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award and won the Scottish Screen Bowmore filmmaker of the year award en 2005. She also won the Women in Film and Television Script award for her work on these two film.[citation needed] Gibb is currently in development with several projects including high-profile adaptations of Swallows and Amazones for BBC Films, Vikram Seth Equal Music for Cuba Pictures, Rose Tremain s The Road Home for BBC 2 and Andrea Gillies s Keeper for BBC1.