BAFTA winning Producer Guy Heeley’s career as a producer encompasses both Film and television.
In 2022, he produced Cyrano, directed by Joe Wright, for which he was BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated, he produced writer/director Steven Knight’s Hummingbird starring Jason Statham, Serenity starring Matthew McConaughey, and Locke, which was a memorable showcase for lead actor Tom Hardy and which won the BIFA for Best Screenplay.
Later in 2022 he won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama for Together, directed by Stephen Daldry from a Dennis Kelly script and starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan
In 2021 he produced The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, co-written and directed by Will Sharpe and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy.
With Shoebox Films he has also produced writer/director Dominic Savage’s The Escape and writer/director Jessica Swale’s Summerland, both starring Gemma Arterton. He was executive producer on Mick Jackson’s Denial, with a screenplay by David Hare and starring Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; and on Oliver Parker’s Swimming with Men, starring Rob Brydon.
He was a BAFTA Award nominee as producer, for Working Title and BBC, of the acclaimed television miniseries London Spy; created and written by Tom Rob Smith,. In addition to its Best Miniseries nod, lead actor Ben Whishaw also received a BAFTA Award nomination.
2023 sees premiere at TIFF of One Life starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by James Hawes.
He is currently in production on We live in time from director John Crowley and starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield for Studiocanal, A24 and FilmFour.