Trudie Styler

Trudie Styler is an English actress, director and producer who studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before moving into period BBC productions and joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she played major roles. Her stage work includes The Vagina Monologues, Twin Spirits and The Seagull, and on television she has appeared in British series such as The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Scold's Bridle as well as American shows including Empire, The Night Of, Friends and Falling Water. Her film credits include Living Proof (2008) and The Next Three Days. In the mid-1990s she founded Xingu Films, which backed new talent, and she produced Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Moon and Moving the Mountain, the last of which took the 1994 International Independent Documentary Award. She later co-founded Maven Pictures, whose films include American Honey, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2016, and her 2017 directorial debut was Freak Show.