Barbara Broccoli

Barbara Broccoli is producer of the James Bond film series with her brother Michael G. Wilson. Broccoli became associate producer with Tom Pevsner on The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill. Together with Wilson, Broccoli produced the hugely successful GoldenEye, followed by the next eight Bond films including Skyfall, Spectre and No Time To Die, the 25th film in the series.

Broccoli and Wilson produced The Rhythm Section starring Blake Lively and directed by Reed Morano and have executive produced several independent film projects including: The Silent Storm, Radiator, and Nancy; Broccoli also executive produced Trauma Is A Time Machine. Through her independent production company, Astoria Productions, Broccoli produced Crime Of The Century for HBO. Starring Stephen Rea and Isabella Rossellini, the television film was directed by Mark Rydell. Broccoli produced the critically acclaimed Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool with Colin Vaines starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters and Vanessa Redgrave and directed by Paul McGuigan with Wilson executive producing.

Broccoli’s love of theatre has driven her to much success as a producer for a number of stage productions including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002 West End, 2005 Broadway), A Steady Rain (2009 Broadway), Chariots Of Fire (2012 West End), the Tony Award-winning Once (2012 Broadway, 2013 West End), Strangers On A Train (2013 West End), Love Letters (2014 Broadway), Othello (New York Theatre Workshop December 2016 – January 2017), The Kid Stays In The Picture (2017 London), The Country Girls (Summer 2017 Chichester Festival Theatre), and recently The Band’s Visit (Broadway 2017) winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Cyprus Avenue (2018 The Public Theater, NYC), Ear for Eye (2018 Royal Court Theatre, London), Fleabag (2019 Soho Playhouse NYC) and Sing Street (2019 New York Theatre Workshop).

Broccoli is BAFTA’s (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Vice President for Film, President of the National Youth Theatre, and a Trustee of Into Film, a film education charity working with young people aged 5-19. Wilson and Broccoli are founders of the London Screen Academy, Islington and Directors of the Dana and Albert R Broccoli Foundation.

In 2014, Broccoli and Wilson were honoured by the Producers Guild of America with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures and in 2013, they received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film for Skyfall. In 2008, Broccoli and Wilson were appointed Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 2022 they were awarded CBEs (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).