# Sue Vertue

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{{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](/source/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](/source/Steven_Moffat)|1997}}
|mother       = [Beryl Vertue](/source/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](/source/Mr._Bean)'' and ''[Coupling](/source/Coupling_(UK_TV_series))''. She is the daughter of producer [Beryl Vertue](/source/Beryl_Vertue).

Vertue worked for [Tiger Aspect](/source/Tiger_Aspect), a production company run by [Peter Bennett-Jones](/source/Peter_Bennett-Jones), where Jones produced episodes of ''[Mr. Bean](/source/Mr._Bean)'', ''[The Vicar of Dibley](/source/The_Vicar_of_Dibley)'' and ''[Gimme Gimme Gimme](/source/Gimme_Gimme_Gimme_(TV_series))''.

Vertue met writer [Steven Moffat](/source/Steven_Moffat) at the [Edinburgh Television Festival](/source/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](/source/Hartswood_Films), run by her mother.<ref name="dust">''After the Chalk Dust Settled'', featurette on ''[Chalk](/source/Chalk_(TV_series))'' Series 1 DVD, ReplayDVD.co.uk, prod. & dir. [Craig Robins](/source/Craig_Robins_(producer))</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](/source/Coupling_(UK_TV_series))'', which was first broadcast on [BBC Two](/source/BBC_Two) in 2000. The main two characters in the show were even named Steve and Susan, played by [Jack Davenport](/source/Jack_Davenport) and [Sarah Alexander](/source/Sarah_Alexander).<ref name="sysl"/>

In 1999, Vertue produced ''[Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death](/source/Doctor_Who_and_the_Curse_of_Fatal_Death)'', a two-episode special of ''[Doctor Who](/source/Doctor_Who)'', written by Moffat, for the [Red Nose Day](/source/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](/source/Carrie_and_Barry)'', ''[Supernova](/source/Supernova_(British_TV_series))'', ''[Fear, Stress & Anger](/source/Fear%2C_Stress_%26_Anger)'', ''[The Cup](/source/The_Cup_(TV_series))'' and ''[Sherlock](/source/Sherlock_(TV_series))''.<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>

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{IMDb name|0895056}}
*[http://www.hartswoodfilms.co.uk/about-us/sue-vertue/ Sue Vertue] at [Hartswood Films](/source/Hartswood_Films)

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Category:Living people
Category:BBC television producers
Category:British women television producers
Category:British television producers
Category:English television producers
Category:People from Surrey
Category:WFTV Award winners

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