Tessa Ross

Tessa Sarah Ross CBE (born 1961) is an English film producer and executive. She received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award and was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour in 2013. She is an honorary fellow of the National Film and Television School. In the 2010 New Year Honours, she was appointed a CBE for services to broadcasting.

Ross has been the executive producer of a number of notable British films, including Billy Elliot (2000), The Last King of Scotland (2006), This Is England (2006), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Hunger (2008), Four Lions (2010), 127 Hours (2010), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Under the Skin (2013), Ex Machina (2015), 45 Years (2015), Room (2015), and Carol (2015). For her work producing Conclave (2024), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture & won the BAFTA Award for Best Film.

Early life Ross was born to a Jewish family She is now an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College.

Career After graduating from Oxford, Ross became a literary agent in 1986.

In 1993, Ross worked again at BBC. She ran the Independent Commissioning Group for Drama from 1993 to 2000, commissioning many film and television projects, including Billy Elliot and Clocking Off. She was appointed as a Governor of the British Film Institute in 2010. The following year, she was appointed to the Board of the Royal National Theatre, and became Chief executive in 2014. She resigned in April 2015, citing concerns over the new leadership structure, but remained working with the National Theatre as a consultant.

Filmography Films Ross has executive produced.

Billy Elliot (2000) Liam (2000) Touching the Void (2003) Dead Man's Shoes (2004) Enduring Love (2004) The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Brothers of the Head (2005) Isolation (2005) Mischief Night (2006) This Is England (2006) The Last King of Scotland (2006) The Road to Guantánamo (2006) Venus (2006) And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007) Brick Lane (2007) Far North (2007) Garage (2007) A Summer in Genoa (2008) Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) Incendiary (2008) In Bruges (2008) Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Hunger (2008 Nowhere Boy (2009) The Lovely Bones (2009) Another Year (2010) Four Lions (2010) Never Let Me Go (2010) Submarine (2010) 127 Hours (2010) Attack the Block (2011) The Eagle (2011) The Iron Lady (2011) One Day (2011) On the Road (2011) Shame (2011) The Woman in the Fifth (2011) Wuthering Heights (2011) Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) Seven Psychopaths (2012) The Double (2013) How I Live Now (2013) The Look of Love (2013) Trance (2013) Under the Skin (2013) 12 Years a Slave (2013) Frank (2014) A Most Wanted Man (2014) '71 (2014) Cuban Fury (2014) The Riot Club (2014) Black Sea (2014) Ex Machina (2015) 45 Years (2015) Life (2015) The Lobster (2015) Carol (2015) Macbeth (2015) Suffragette (2015) Room (2015) Ink (2027) Sweetsick (TBA)

She has also served as co-producer on the following films:

Conclave (2024)