Nira Park | |
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 Park atThe World's End Premiere, Leicester Square, 10 July 2013 | |
| Born | Nira Louise Park |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, television producer, founder ofBig Talk Productions and Complete Fiction Pictures |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Known for | Shaun of the Dead Hot Fuzz Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Paul Attack the Block In Fear The World's End Man Up Baby Driver The Kid Who Would Be King Rebecca The Sparks Brothers Last Night in Soho |
| Television | Spaced Black Books Him and Her Friday Night Dinner |
| Spouse | |
| Website | www |
Nira Louise Park is a British television and film producer.[1]
Park founded award-winning UK film and television production companyBig Talk in 1995. She left the company in July 2018 to launch a new production company, Complete Fiction Pictures, withEdgar Wright,Joe Cornish and Rachael Prior.[2]
Park is best known for her collaborations withEdgar Wright, having produced all of his work over the past two decades; their partnership began with the award-winning television seriesSpaced. This also marked the beginning of their long-standing collaborations withSimon Pegg andNick Frost, which continued with the cult comedyShaun of the Dead[3] for which Park received aBAFTA Outstanding Debut Award nomination. The film was the first instalment of Wright's iconicThree Flavours Cornetto trilogy, all starring Pegg and Frost. Park went on to produce Wright'sScott Pilgrim vs. the World andBaby Driver.
Park has also worked closely withJoe Cornish over the years, their relationship beginning with theSXSW Audience Award-winning and BAFTA Outstanding Debut-nominated featureAttack the Block and most recently his supernatural detective thrillerLockwood & Co.. In addition to her work with Wright and Cornish, Nira has produced:Greg Mottola’sPaul, written by and starring Pegg and Frost;Ben Wheatley’sCannes-premiered black-comedySightseers; Jeremy Lovering's critically acclaimed psychological horrorIn Fear, which premiered atSundance;Cuban Fury, starring Nick Frost,Chris O’Dowd andRashida Jones;Man Up, starring Simon Pegg alongsideLake Bell; andSacha Baron Cohen’s action comedyGrimsby.
For television, she has produced three series of the double BAFTA award-winning sitcomBlack Books,Free Agents, and was an executive producer onFriday Night Dinner and the BAFTA award-winningHim and Her.
In 2020, Park producedBen Wheatley'sRebecca,[4] starringLily James,Armie Hammer andKristin Scott Thomas forWorking Title Films andNetflix. In 2021, she produced Edgar Wright'sThe Sparks Brothers, a feature documentary about the bandSparks, with Complete Fiction and theirBaby Driver partnerMRC. She also produced Edgar Wright's 2021 filmLast Night in Soho[5] with Complete Fiction and Working Title forFocus Features andFilm4.
