Biography

Hannah Farrell joined Fable as Creative Partner in 2018. Hannah began her career in development in 2000 when she joined Working Title Films as a Development Assistant working on films such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost). Several years later, Hannah joined Ruby Films as Head of Development where she built a slate of projects under their first-look deal with Film4 and Miramax. She worked across a number of projects including Chatroom, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Imogen Poots (directed by Hideo Nakata, written by Enda Walsh); Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe starring Gemma Arterton, written by Moira Buffini; Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre starring Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska, written by Moira Buffini; Saving Mr Banks starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson (directed by John Lee Hancock, written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith); and Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette with Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham Carter, and written by Abi Morgan. She also developed SJ Clarkson's Toast, starring Freddie Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter, written by Lee Hall, and Case Histories for BBC One, starring Jason Isaacs, Amanda Abbington and Zawe Ashton. In 2015 Hannah joined Origin Pictures, where she headed up both the TV and Film division, overseeing development of projects including BBC1’s hit show The Woman in White (starring Jessie Buckley, Olivia Vinall and Dougray Scott, written by Wilkie Collins and Fiona Seres, and directed by Carl Tibbetts).