Kelly Marcel was born on 10 January 1974 and is an English filmmaker and former actress.
17 Facts About Kelly Marcel
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Kelly Marcel created and served as executive producer of the television series Terra Nova and The Changeling, for which she was the showrunner and is credited with writing eight episodes.
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Kelly Marcel was born in London, England, and studied English literature at the University of Exeter.
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Kelly Marcel's father is filmmaker Terry Marcel, and she has a sister, actress Rosie Marcel.
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Kelly Marcel worked as a child actor in the United Kingdom, playing minor roles in television series such as The Bill, Holby City, and Casualty.
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Kelly Marcel had a largely non-speaking role as Young Vera in the 1994 television film adaptation of A Dark-Adapted Eye.
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Kelly Marcel eventually quit acting to pursue writing while working part-time in Prime Time Video, a video rental shop in Battersea, London.
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Kelly Marcel wrote it for her father, who had been telling her about the supercontinent Gondwanaland and reading a Stephen Hawking book on time travel.
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Kelly Marcel, who had just seen Al Gore's 2006 global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, combined these three influences into the script.
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Kelly Marcel sold a script about death row, titled Westbridge, to Showtime.
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Kelly Marcel worked on the script with director Thomas Schlamme.
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Kelly Marcel was approached by Ruby Films' Alison Owen to work on a project about Mary Poppins author P L Travers and her relationship with Walt Disney for BBC Films, based on an earlier draft by Sue Smith.
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Kelly Marcel was nominated for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer at the 67th Annual BAFTA Awards.
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Kelly Marcel was one of the writers on Sony's Venom adaptation, alongside Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner.
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Kelly Marcel returned to write the scripts for Venom's first and second sequels, Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Venom: The Last Dance, receiving sole writing credit on both movies.
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In October 2022, it was announced that Kelly Marcel would be making her directorial debut in 2024 with Venom: The Last Dance, in addition to writing and producing the film.
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Kelly Marcel worked in close, intense collaboration with author Victor LaValle in adapting his award-winning 2017 novel The Changeling into a television show with the same name for Apple TV+ that premiered in October 2023.