{{Short description|British television producer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person |name = Sue Vertue |image = Sue Vertue by Gage Skidmore.jpg |alt = |caption = Vertue in 2013 |birth_name = Susan Nicola Vertue |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|9|21|df=y}} |birth_place = Surrey, England |death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> |death_place = |other_names = |known_for = |occupation = Television producer |spouse = {{marriage|Steven Moffat|1997}} |mother = Beryl Vertue |children = 2 }}
'''Susan Nicola Vertue''' (born 21 September 1960)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/united-kingdom-records-in-birth-marriage-death-and-parish-records?firstname=susan&lastname=vertue&yearofbirth=1960&yearofbirth_offset=0 |title=Results for Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records |website=Findmypast.co.uk |access-date=2 August 2014}}</ref> is an English television producer, mainly of comedy shows, including ''Mr. Bean'' and ''Coupling''. She is the daughter of producer Beryl Vertue.
Vertue worked for Tiger Aspect, a production company run by Peter Bennett-Jones, where Jones produced episodes of ''Mr. Bean'', ''The Vicar of Dibley'' and ''Gimme Gimme Gimme''.
Vertue met writer Steven Moffat at the Edinburgh Television Festival in 1996.<ref name="sysl">{{cite news |first=Adam |last=Sternbergh |title=Selling Your Sex Life |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/selling-your-sex-life.html |date=7 September 2003 |access-date=1 April 2008}}</ref> A relationship blossomed and they left their respective production companies to join Hartswood Films, run by her mother.<ref name="dust">''After the Chalk Dust Settled'', featurette on ''Chalk'' Series 1 DVD, ReplayDVD.co.uk, prod. & dir. Craig Robins</ref> When Vertue asked Moffat to write a sitcom for Hartswood, he decided to base it around the evolution of their own relationship. The series became ''Coupling'', which was first broadcast on BBC Two in 2000. The main two characters in the show were even named Steve and Susan, played by Jack Davenport and Sarah Alexander.<ref name="sysl"/>
In 1999, Vertue produced ''Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death'', a two-episode special of ''Doctor Who'', written by Moffat, for the Red Nose Day charity telethon.<ref>{{cite web |title=Comic Relief Who |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/08/10/13656.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060410175906/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/08/10/13656.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 April 2006 |work=BBC |date=1 January 2004 |access-date=22 July 2009}}</ref>
Her other work includes ''Carrie and Barry'', ''Supernova'', ''Fear, Stress & Anger'', ''The Cup'' and ''Sherlock''.<ref>{{cite press release |title=BBC Drama announces 'Sherlock', a new crime drama for BBC One |work=BBC Press Office |date=19 December 2008 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/12_december/19/sherlock.shtml |access-date=27 December 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.costume-designer.co.uk/cv/sherlock/ |title=Sherlock |website=Ray Holman |access-date=21 July 2009}}</ref>
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==External links== {{commons category}} *{{Twitter}} *{{IMDb name|0895056}} *[http://www.hartswoodfilms.co.uk/about-us/sue-vertue/ Sue Vertue] at Hartswood Films
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