Andrea Gibb

Gibb was born en Greenock, Escocia. She estudios en el drama and sociology at Universidad de Glasgow and then did a de post-grado de la enseñanza de grado at universidad Politécnica de Manchester before going on to do an acting course at the Drama Studio de Londres. She acted regularly en teatro y televisión before she started la escritura. Her most high-profile role lo as Deirdre, Calum Buchanan's girlfriend in All Creatures Great and Small. "When I was doing All Creatures, I had absolutely no deseo, no con la intención, no belief that I could write," recalled Gibb en 2016. "It never occurred to me, and it was never something I imaginado myself doing in the future. My writing career just happened, casi 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 teatro de trabajo about three years ago that I me encantó. I miss actors and I miss that sense of camaraderie. You become a la familia." "I had just moved from London up to Liverpool because my partner at the time lo made the associate director of the Everyman Theatre, por lo que I moved with him. I was doing a fair bit of acting in the North West alrededor de Liverpool, including at the Everyman, but I still had a Londres agente, por lo que I was going down for audiciones all the time. Ella rango de 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 trascendió that Deirdre worked at the Ministry of Agriculture." Gibb lo que a regular el presentador on the children's television programas de Let's Pretend.[citation needed] "She was shortlisted for The Dennis Potter Premio 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. Then She wrote the screenplays for Dear Frankie and AfterLife. Both tesis película were shot in her home town of Greenock at exactly the same time. She has a small cameo role en Dear Frankie. Gibb lo nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Scotland award for best Screenwriter. "She was 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 película.[citation needed] Gibb is currently in development with several projects including perfil de alta adaptaciones de Golondrinas and Amazonas for BBC Films, Vikram Seth A Equal Music for Cuba Pictures, Rose Tremain's The Road Home for BBC 2 y Andrea Gillies's Keeper for BBC1.