Stephen Woolley
English film producer
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Who is Stephen Woolley?
Stephen Woolley (born 3 September 1956) is an English filmmaker and actor. Woolley's first film as a producer was The Company of Wolves (1984), but his career began after leaving Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington, London. He runs the production company Number 9 Films with his partner Elizabeth Karlsen. In 1976 he became an usher at the venue Quentin Tarantino described as “the coolest cinema in London”, The Screen on the Green in Islington, run by Romaine Hart (OBE), at a time when its ushers wore hotpants. He then joined the exhibition arm of film collective The Other Cinema in Charlotte Street in the West End of London, before going on to own and run his own repertory cinema, The Scala Cinema, on the same premises.
Historical significance
His career has spanned four decades, for which he was awarded the BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in February 2019. As a producer, he has been Oscar-nominated for The Crying Game (1992), and has produced multi-Academy Award nominated films including Mona Lisa (1986), Little Voice (1998), Michael Collins (1996), The End of the Affair (1999), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Carol (2016).
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Stephen Woolley. (n.d.). thisDay. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://thisday.info/people/stephen-woolley/
“Stephen Woolley.” thisDay. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://thisday.info/people/stephen-woolley/.