{{Short description|British film and television producer}} {{Infobox person | name = Pippa Harris | image = EmpireOfLightBFI121022 (31 of 33) (52448303408) (cropped).jpg | birth_name = Philippa Jill Olivier Harris | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}} | birth_place = London, England | education = Robinson College | occupation = Television producer | known_for = ''Call the Midwife'' }}
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'''Dame Philippa Jill Olivier Harris''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE}} (born 27 March 1967), known as '''Pippa Harris''' and '''Dame Pippa Harris''', is a British film and television producer. She co-founded Neal Street Productions in 2003 with Sam Mendes and Caro Newling.<ref>[http://nealstreetproductions.com/about-us/pippa-harris Neal Street Productions official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615111052/http://nealstreetproductions.com/about-us/pippa-harris |date=15 June 2018 }}, nealstreetproductions.com; accessed 11 February 2016.</ref>
Harris was a script editor at ITV and Channel Four before becoming a development executive at BBC Films and then an executive producer for BBC Drama Serials. In that role her projects included ''Warriors'' and ''Love in a Cold Climate''. Harris became Head of Drama Commissioning for the BBC in 2001. Commissions during her time there included ''Daniel Deronda'' and ''The Lost Prince''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wearemany.com/the-film/castcrew/pippa-harris/|title=Pippa Harris {{!}} We Are Many|website=wearemany.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref>
Harris has produced several films including the acclaimed 2026 film Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, and The Magic Faraway Tree. She has also executive produced Things We Lost in the Fire and ''Revolutionary Road'' starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. For TV Harris produced ''Stuart: A Life Backwards'' featuring Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch and executive produced ''Call the Midwife'', ''Penny Dreadful'' and ''The Hollow Crown'' and ''Britannia''. Harris served as Adviser to the former leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg MP, with whom she had studied at Robinson College, Cambridge.<ref name="dissolution"/>
For the film ''1917'' directed by Sam Mendes, Harris received various accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
== Early years == Harris is the granddaughter of medical doctor Noël Olivier. She was educated at Oxford High School for Girls and Robinson College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a degree in English in 1989.<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Harris, Dame Philippa Jill Olivier, (Dame Pippa) | id = 247120 | volume = 2018 | edition = online}}</ref>
== Career == Harris started her career as a production assistant at Jacaranda Productions in 1989 and progressed quickly through roles as a script editor for ITV and Channel 4 before becoming development executive at BBC Films. She was then promoted to Executive Producer, BBC Drama Serials. Harris worked on ''Warriors'' (1999), ''Care'' (2000), ''The Sleeper'' (2000) ''The Way We Live Now'' (2001) and ''Love in a Cold Climate'' (2001).{{cn|date=March 2026}}
In 2001, Harris became Head of Drama Commissioning for the BBC, working with Jane Tranter. Her BBC commissions included ''Cutting It'' (2002), ''Flesh and Blood'' (2002), ''Daniel Deronda'' (2002), ''The Lost Prince'' (2003) and ''State of Play'' (2003).
In 2003, Pippa Harris co-founded Neal Street Productions with partners Sam Mendes and Caro Newling. Since forming the company, Harris has produced several films, including ''Jarhead'' (2005), ''Starter for 10'' (2006) and ''Blood'' (2012). She has executive produced ''Things We Lost in the Fire'' (2007), ''Revolutionary Road'' (2008) and ''Away We Go'' (2009).
For television, Harris has produced ''Stuart: A Life Backwards'' (2007) as well as the frightening psychological thriller, ''Penny Dreadful'' created and written by John Logan for Showtime / Sky Atlantic. She also executively produced the critically acclaimed, BAFTA nominated Shakespeare film series, ''The Hollow Crown'' (2012) and ''The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses'' (2016), as well as ''Britannia'' (2018) which was the first co-production between Sky and Amazon Prime Video in 2018, starring Kelly Reilly, David Morrissey, Zoë Wanamaker, Liana Cornell and Stanley Weber.{{cn|date=March 2026}}
She made a cameo appearance in series 16, episode 8 of Call The Midwife as an mourner during the funeral of Sister Monica Joan.<ref>https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/pam-ferris-returns-ghost-call-36835208</ref>
Harris currently serves as the executive producer of the , BAFTA and NTA winning series ''Call the Midwife.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=call+the+midwife&=Search|title=BAFTA Awards Search {{!}} BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org|access-date=2019-10-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationaltvawards.com/winners|title=Winners {{!}} National Television Awards|last=Awards|first=National Television|website=www.nationaltvawards.com|language=en|access-date=2019-10-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/call-the-midwife/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304063348/http://www.pbs.org/call-the-midwife/about/|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2013|title=About {{!}} Call the Midwife|website=About {{!}} Call the Midwife {{!}} PBS|access-date=2019-10-03}}</ref>
In 2018, Harris was appointed Chair<ref>{{Cite web |last=Orlando Parfitt2018-06-04T10:00:00+01:00 |title=Pippa Harris named new Bafta chair |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/pippa-harris-named-new-bafta-chair/5129830.article |access-date=2019-05-09 |website=Screen |language=en}}</ref> of BAFTA, after a year as the Deputy Chair and is a board member of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She was appointed VP for Television in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ravindran |first=Manori |date=2021-11-17 |title=BAFTA Names Pippa Harris as VP for Television |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/pippa-harris-bafta-vp-television-1235114061/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
She is the editor of her grandmother's correspondence with poet Rupert Brooke between 1908 and 1915.{{sfn|Harris|1991}}
==Damehood== Harris was elevated to a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 Dissolution Honours Lists on 27 August 2015.<ref name="dissolution">[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-honours-2015 Dissolution Honours 2015], gov.uk; accessed 11 February 2016.</ref>
== Board memberships == Pippa Harris is Chair of BAFTA, and sits on their board as well after having previously chaired the film committee. Since 2021, Pippa Harris has been Chair of Trustees at Charleston. She has served on its board since 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charleston — Pippa Harris appointed Chair of Charleston's Board of Trustees |url=https://www.charleston.org.uk/stories/pippa-harris-appointed-chair-of-charlestons-board-of-trustees/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=Charleston}}</ref> She is also a governor of Central School of Speech and Drama, and a Trustee of the Creative Society.
In 2023, Harris was selected to join the board of the Royal Foundation Charity. <ref>{{Cite news |last=McTaggart |first=India |date=2023-10-10 |title=Call the Midwife producer hired to help Prince and Princess of Wales appeal to Gen Z |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/10/10/prince-princess-of-wales-royal-foundation-generation-z/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
== Accolades == *Academy Award for Best Picture nomination for ''1917'' *BAFTA Award for Best Film for ''1917'' *BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film for ''1917'' *Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama for ''1917'' *Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures for ''1917'' *Academy Award for Best Picture nomination for ''Hamnet'' *Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama for ''Hamnet'' *Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures nomination for ''Hamnet''
==References== {{Reflist}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite book|last1=Brooke|first1=Rupert|last2=Olivier|first2=Noel|authorlink1=Rupert Brooke|authorlink2=Noel Olivier|editor-last=Harris|editor-first=Pippa|editor-link=Pippa Harris|title=Song of love: the letters of Rupert Brooke and Noël Olivier|url=https://archive.org/details/songofloveletter00broo|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=Crown Publishing|isbn=978-0-517-59090-4|ref={{harvid|Harris|1991}}}} [https://archive.org/details/songofloveletter00broo Full text] on Internet Archive
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0365208}} * [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jul/22/pippa-harris-neal-street-hollow-crown Interview in The Guardian, UK]
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