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Debra Hayward (born 15 April 1964) is a British film producer. As Head of Film at Working Title Films, Hayward frequently served as an executive producer for the company's feature films, working alongside fellow Working Title executive Liza Chasin. After producing Les Misérables, she started her own production company, Monumental Pictures.

Life and career

Born in Liverpool in 1964, the daughter of John I. Hayward and his wife Annetta Lansky,^[1]^[2] Hayward joined Working Title Films in 1989, working as a producer’s assistant on films that include Fools of Fortune and Dakota Road. She later became a development executive for the company, and produced several films such as London Kills Me and Map of the Human Heart. Hayward served as Head of Film for Working Title and was creatively responsible for the company’s entire slate of feature films in conjunction with her American counterpart, Liza Chasin. Both Hayward and Chasin have served as executive producers on films that include Bridget Jones's Diary, Atonement and The Boat That Rocked. More recently Hayward has worked on critically acclaimed hits Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Senna. September 2011 saw the launch of her new production company Monumental Pictures.

Hayward's first solo film as producer was Les Misérables, which went on to win multiple awards, raising her profile.^[3]^[4]

In 2014 she started her own production house, Monumental Pictures, with fellow producer Alison Owen.^[5]

On 14 October 2018, it was announced that late singer Amy Winehouse's family had respectively signed a multi-million pound deal with Hayward’s film company, Monumental Pictures to make a biopic about her life, which will be directed by Alison Owen and produced by Hayward.^{[citation needed]}

She is married to the English screenwriter Will Osborne and has four children.^[3] He returned from California to marry Hayward, and they moved from London to Glandford, Norfolk.^[6]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1990	Fools of Fortune	Assistant to Sarah Radclyffe
1994	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Head of development: Working Title
1995	French Kiss	Head of development: Working Title
1996	Loch Ness	Associate producer
1997	The Matchmaker	Co-producer
1997	The Borrowers	Co-producer
1998	What Rats Won't Do	Head of development: Working Title
1998	Elizabeth	Co-producer
2001	Bridget Jones's Diary
2001	Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2002	40 Days and 40 Nights
	About a Boy
	The Guru	Executive producer
2003	Ned Kelly	Co-producer
	Johnny English
	Love Actually
2004	Thunderbirds	Executive producer
	Wimbledon
	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2005	The Interpreter	Co-producer
	Pride & Prejudice	Executive producer
	Nanny McPhee
2006	United 93
2006	Catch a Fire
2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age
	Mr. Bean's Holiday	Co-producer
	Atonement	Executive producer
2008	Frost/Nixon
2009	State of Play
2009	The Boat That Rocked
2010	Green Zone
	Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
	Senna
2011	Paul
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
	Johnny English Reborn
2012	Les Misérables	Producer
2013	I Give It a Year	Executive producer
2016	Bridget Jones's Baby	Producer
2019	How to Build a Girl
2019	Cats
2024	Back to Black

References

^ Debra HAYWARD, company-information.service.gov.uk, accessed 19 February 2021
^ “HAYWARD, DEBRA / LANSKY / LIVERPOOL S. 10D 1078”, General Register Index to Births in England and Wales (1964), ancestry.co.uk, accessed 19 February 2021 (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b Curtis, Nick (29 January 2013). "Debra Hayward: Heaven knows we were Les Misérables making this movie". Evening Standard. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
^ "Web Chat: Debra Hayward". Stylist.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
^ Barraclough, Leo (24 September 2014). "Top U.K. Producers Alison Owen, Debra Hayward Join Forces". Variety. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
^ Rowan Mantell, Couple’s amazing film-making odyssey brings them to Norfolk, Eastern Daily Press, 31 October 2014, accessed 17 February 2021