Robyn Slovo
Robyn Slovo is a South African film producer, based in the UK. Her work includes the 2000 film Morvern Callar, the 2006 film Catch a Fire, and the 2011 film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Slovo started her career in theatre, before moving into the television and film industry, working first as a script editor and development executive for the BBC, and then as a film producer for Company Pictures and Working Title Films.
Slovo's family is Jewish. She is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First — both major figures in the anti-apartheid struggle who lived perilous lives of exile, armed resistance, and occasional imprisonment, culminating in her mother's assassination in 1982. A family memoir in the form of a feature film, A World Apart, was written by her sister Shawn Slovo and starred Barbara Hershey. She played her mother in the film Catch a Fire, also written by her sister Shawn Slovo. She is the youngest sister of novelist Gillian Slovo and screenwriter Shawn Slovo.
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Vorname: | Robyn |
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Geburtsdatum: | 1953 (♑ Steinbock) |
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Alter: | 71Jahre 2Monate 25Tage |
Nationalität: | Vereinigtes Königreich |
Sprachen: | Englisch; |
Wirkungsstätte: | Vereinigtes Königreich, |
Geschlecht: | ♀weiblich |
Berufe: | Filmproduzent, |