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Tessa Ross is the co-CEO of House Productions, the film and television production company she co-founded with Juliette Howell in 2016. The company now sits within the heart of global content company BBC Studios’ portfolio of indies. For the small screen they recently produced two series of the critically acclaimed, BAFTA-winning BBC phenomenon “Sherwood” as well as “Brexit: The Uncivil War,” an Emmy-nominated telefilm for Channel 4 and HBO starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Both projects were written by award-winning writer James Graham. The company also produced “The Good Mothers,” a Critics’ Choice Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Series. This unique crime drama for Disney+ and Hulu explored the mafia entirely from women’s perspectives.

House Productions’ recent film slate includes Andrea Arnold’s new drama Bird, starring Barry Keoghan; Sebastián Lelio’s BAFTA-nominated feature The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh; The Iron Claw, written and directed by Sean Durkin; and Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre, a stylish horror film based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley. Ross was an executive producer on Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar® winner The Zone of Interest, based on Martin Amis’ bestseller, and They Shall Not Grow Old, a state-of-the-art restoration of archival footage from World War I that was helmed by Peter Jackson.

Ross’ prior role as controller of film and drama at Channel 4 saw her influencing the U.K.’s film scene significantly by developing and financing acclaimed and award-winning releases such as Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland, Chris Morris’ Four Lions, Shane Meadows’ This Is England, Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank and Room, Todd Haynes’ Carol, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina and Steve McQueen’s Hunger, Shame and 12 Years a Slave. Her television credits include groundbreaking series such as “Shameless,” “Sex Traffic,” “The Devil’s Whore,” “Longford,” “White Teeth” and “Clocking Off.”

Tessa Ross has been a governor at the NFTS and BFI as well as a member of the ICA Council. Not only was she a member of the Board of the National Theatre, she was appointed as its first CEO. Ross is an Honorary Associate of the London Film School, an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College

Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of the NFTS. She was appointed CBE in the New Year 2010 Honours List and awarded a BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Film in 2013. Additionally, Ross served as chair of the Bailey’s Prize for Fiction in 2017 and sat on the National Council of the Arts Council.

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