Rebecca Frayn

Rebecca Frayn is a film maker, screen writer, novelist and environmental activist.

She has directed a wide range of signature documentaries for Cutting Edge, Modern Times, The South Bank Show and Imagine, together with an original 3-part series Space for the BBC. Her documentaries are quirky, visually distinctive essays that explore subjects that have fascinated her, ranging from identical twins, to the role of Tory Wives in the dying days of the last Conservative government, to dedicated minimalists living in empty homes, to a Victorian mental asylum being converted into luxury apartments. She has also directed 2 drama projects, the second of which, Whose Baby? was a hard hitting film about father's rights for ITV, starring Sophie Okonedo and Andrew Lincoln.

As an environmentalist, she has made a number of short films to raise awareness on green issues, and co-founded the environmental lobbying group Climate Action Now with a group of fellow female creatives. In 2008, she was nominated by the Evening Standard as one of the 100 Most Influential Environmental Campaigners of the Year.

Rebecca has also made a number of films about prominent women of our times, including Aung San Suu Kyi, Leni Riefenstahl and Nora Ephron, while her screenplay for the BBC's Screen On One, Killing Me Softly, told the real life story of Sara Thornton, whose controversial conviction for the murder of her alcoholic husband helped bring about a reform of the law on domestic violence. She has originated and written 2 features films. The first, The Lady, starred Michelle Yeoh, told the story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the world's most prominent prisoner of conscience and the last ten years of her marriage to Dr Michael Aris. It was awarded the International Human Rights Film Award with Amnest International in 2012. And her second feature film, Misbehaviour, starring Kiera Knightley, told the story of the birth of the Women's Movement and was released in every cinema in the country to rave reviews in 2020.

In 2006 she signed a 2 book deal with Simon and Schuster and her 1st novel, One Life, dealt with the complex emotional and ethical landscape of IVF and was selected as a Daily Mail Book Club choice. Meanwhile, Rebecca's 2nd novel, Deceptions, a psychological thriller about a twelve year old school boy who goes missing, was listed by Waterstones as one of their books of the year. Her 3rd novel, Lost in Ibiza is out now and tells the story of complex family dynamics by lifting the lid on the secret life of this much mythologised island.

When she's not writing, she can be found running her off-grid, regenerative farm in the north of Ibiza with her son, @FinnHarries.

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