Sarah Radclyffe

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Sarah Radclyffe (born November 14, 1950), sometimes credited as Sarah Radcliffe is a British film producer.

She began working as Associative producer in the late 1970s on movies like The Tempest by Derek Jarman. In 1984 she worked on the series The Comic Strip Presents and in the same year she founded the production company Working Title Films together with her partner Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The first major production for that company was the Stephen Frears film My Beautiful Laundrette in 1985. In the following years Working Title became one of the major production companies for young or independent British film makers. Most notable films with Sarah Radclyffe as producer were Caravaggio (1986), Wish You Were Here (1987), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1988), A World Apart (1988), Edward II (1991), Sirens (1994), Les Misérables (1998) and The War Zone (1999) for which she was nominated for the European Film Award. She is married for the second time to William Penton Godfrey since 1996 and has two sons.