Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold was born in Dartford, Kent. She raised up on a council estate of a type that would practice the setting of her own work; her parents were young when she was born, and they separated early on. At 18 she moved to London, where her preferences were formed by modern films of the time.

Furthermore she joined the dance troupe Zoo, appearing on television shows that included Top of the Pops , but came to fame as an actress and presenter alongside Sandi Toksvig, Nick Staverson and Neil Buchanan in No. 73  a children's show.

After years working in children's television, Andrea Arnold came quite late to directing, but her films instantly became known internationally, attracting enormous applause. Hard detect but her films are often centred on female, working-class characters and marked by simple, unsettling images and intricate editing, their surface roughness is shot through with complexity and compassion.

In the 1990s, she completed a year studying at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, then came back to England and had a daughter with her partner.Her fist shoots were short films ,one of them wasp(2003) winning her an Academy award for best live action short .

                                      

She was then invited to join The Advance Party, a project prompted by the Danish director Lars von Trier to make three films by different first-time directors incorporating the same set of characters. Set in Glasgow, Arnold's contribution, Red Road(2006). Competing in Cannes, it won the Jury Prize.She additionally won a jury prize in Cannes  when she returned back south for her fil Fish Tank (2009). She is currently planning an adaptation of Wuthering Heights; written by Olivia Hetreed, it will be the first time Arnold has not worked with her own screenplay.