Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold
OBE
Arnold at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
Born (1961-04-05) 5 April 1961 (age 63)[1]
Dartford, Kent, England
EducationAFI Conservatory
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active1982–present
Children1
Andrea Arnold's voice
from the BBC programme The Film Programme, 15 January 2010[2]

Andrea Patricia Arnold OBE (born 5 April 1961)[3] is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005.[4] Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.[5][6][7] Arnold has also directed four episodes of the Amazon Prime Video series Transparent,[5] as well as all seven episodes of the second season of the HBO series Big Little Lies. Her documentary Cow premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and played at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival.

  1. ^ "Real life in the fish tank" The Guardian (23 August 2009). Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Andrea Arnold". The Film Programme. 15 January 2010. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Andrea Patricia Arnold personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
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  7. ^ Barraclough, Leo (7 June 2016). "Andrea Arnold's Cannes Jury Prize Winner 'American Honey' Sells Out". Variety. Retrieved 20 June 2016.