Kelly Marcel was born on 10 January 1974 and is a British screenwriter, actress and television producer.
15 Facts About Kelly Marcel
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Kelly Marcel co-wrote the film Saving Mr Banks and wrote the film Fifty Shades of Grey, and created and served as executive producer of the television series Terra Nova.
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Kelly Marcel has played 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 dad, 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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Gondwanaland Highway was almost picked up by Carnival Films, the UK production company behind Downton Abbey, when producer Aaron Kaplan persuaded Kelly Marcel to bring the show to America instead.
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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 script for the sequel.
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In October 2022, it was announced that Kelly Marcel would serve as director for Venom 3, in addition to writing and producing it.