Alison Owen

Alison Mary Owen (born 18 February 1961) is an English film producer. Her credits as a producer include Moonlight and Valentino (1995), Elizabeth (1998), Sylvia (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Proof (2005), The Other Boleyn Girl (2007), Brick Lane (2007), Saving Mr. Banks (2013) and Tulip Fever (2017). Life Owen was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, into a Roman Catholic family. Her parents were Mary Kathleen (née Hitchiner), a Royal Navy dockyard worker, and Peter Ronald Owen, chief petty officer in the Royal Navy, and was the younger of two daughters. Her sister is Jill Beatrice Owen. Owen's first marriage (other sources simply say "relationship") started when she was a teenager in the 1970s, producing her first child, Sarah, in late December 1979, when Owen was an 18-year-old university student. She married actor Keith Allen in 1984, and they had two children together, pop singer Lily Allen and actor Alfie Allen, before divorcing in 1989. She also had a relationship with comedian Harry Enfield who was a common-law stepfather to Owen's children. She is currently married to art director Aaron Batterham, who has four children of his own. In 2017, the National Portrait Gallery acquired an early portrait of Owen for their permanent collection by photographer David Gwinnutt.