Cast and Creative

Film credits include: The Sheep Detectives; Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy; Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (BAFTA nomination for ‘Leading Actress’ & Golden Globe nomination for ‘Best Actress’); Matilda the Musical; What’s Love Got To Do With It?; The Tall Guy; Sense and Sensibility (Academy Award for ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’, Academy Award nomination for ‘Best Actress’ & BAFTA Award for ‘Leading Actress’); Howards End (Academy Award for ‘Best Actress’ & BAFTA Award for ‘Leading Actress’); The Remains of The Day (Academy Award nomination); In The Name of the Father (Academy Award nomination); Last Christmas (co-screenwriter and producer); Late Night; King Lear; The Children Act; Love Actually; Saving Mr Banks; The Meyerowitz Stories; Beauty and the Beast; Henry V; Dead Again; Peter’s Friends; Much Ado About Nothing; Junior; Carrington; The Winter Guest; Primary Colors; Stranger Than Fiction; Last Chance Harvey; Love Punch; Brave; Men in Black: International; Cruella; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Emma starred as the title character and wrote the screenplay for both Nanny McPhee and Nanny McPhee Returns and was an Executive Producer on the latter.

Television credits include: Years & Years; Wit (Golden Globe nomination) and Angels in America (SAG Award & Emmy nomination); Song of Lunch (Emmy nomination); Walking the Dog; Alfresco; Thompson; Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War (joint BAFTA Award).

Stage credits include: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Avery Fisher Hall & London Coliseum); Me and My Girl (Leicester Haymarket & Adelphi) and Look Back in Anger (Lyric).

Emma has recently starred in and executive produced Dead of Winter, Apple TV’s Down Cemetery Road, and the documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street. Down Cemetery Road has since been renewed for a second season.

Emma was commissioned to write the 24^th, 25^th and 26^th tales in the existing collection of Peter Rabbit stories beginning in 2012 and is the author of Jim’s Spectacular Christmas, a children’s book illustrated by Axel Scheffler and published in 2022.

In June 2018, Emma was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Gary Clark was front man of Scottish band Danny Wilson writing the band’s international hit ‘Mary’s Prayer’ before working as a songwriter producer for Natalie Imbruglia, Liz Phair, The Veronicas, McFly, The Wanted, Demi Lovato and many others.

His songs have appeared frequently in film and television, including There’s Something about Mary, Nightwatch, Wild Things, Charlie’s Angels, Grey’s Anatomy, Teen Wolf and Blinded by The Light.

With Screenwriter and Director John Carney, he’s written songs and score for the 2016 movie Sing Street, two seasons of Amazon Prime’s Modern Love, 2023’s Flora and Son and 2026’s Power Ballad, starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas.

The stage adaptation of Sing Street has played sold out runs in New York, Boston and London.

Katy Rudd is an award-winning Theatre Director. Her work in theatre includes: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Chichester Festival Theatre & Theatre Royal Haymarket); Ballet Shoes (National Theatre 2024 & 2025 & UK tour); The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre, Duke of York & UK tour); When Winston Went to War with the Wireless (Donmar Warehouse); Eureka Day and Camp Siegfried (The Old Vic); The Almighty Sometimes (Royal Exchange, Manchester – Stage Debut Award for ‘Best Director’).