Franny Moyle (born 1964) is a British television producer and author. Her first bookDesperate Romantics: The Private Lives of thePre-Raphaelites (2009) was adapted into theBBC drama serialDesperate Romantics by screenwriterPeter Bowker. Her second book,Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs.Oscar Wilde was published in 2011 to critical acclaim. In 2016 she releasedTurner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times ofJ.M.W. Turner, published by Viking. In 2021, her book,The King's Painter: The Life and Times ofHans Holbein, was published by Abrams Press in New York.

Moyle is a graduate in English and the History of Art fromSt John's College, Cambridge. She joined BBC television in 1992^[1] as a producer and director initially working predominantly in leisure programming as the editor of magazine programmeHome Front. She became the BBC's Creative Director, Arts, running its in-house arts programming production department in London before being appointed the corporation's first dedicated Commissioner for Arts and Culture across its four channels. In 2005, she left a permanent role at the BBC to write and work as a freelance for her own projects. She continues to work as a Director of theHackney Empire near her home in East London.

She is married to the television director and writerRichard Curson Smith and has three children.

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