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name: "Anita Overland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anita-overland"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 80
updated: "2026-09-17T03:31:03.636492+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Anita Overland

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1986–present

## Biography

Anita Overland is a British film and television producer. She began her career producing commercials and music videos for director Gerard de Thame, later moving into line producing on feature films.

Her credits include producer on the anthology series *Small Axe* (2020), the Red Riding trilogy (2009) and *The Tribe* (1998); co-producer on *Rush* (2013), *Far from the Madding Crowd* (2015), *The King* (2019) and *The Iron Lady* (2011); and line producer on *Breaking and Entering* (2006). She produced the short film *Syrup*, which won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize and received an Oscar nomination. Overland also worked on *In This World* (2002), which won a BAFTA for Best Film not in the English Language.

*Sources: imdb.com, bifa.film, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Blitz* (2024), Fi1m 63, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/blitz.md)
- *Small Axe* (2020), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md)
- *Cold War* (2018), Fi1m 85, Production Consultant — [page](https://film.one/film/cold-war.md)
- *Rush* (2013), Fi1m 82, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/rush.md)
- *A Room with a View* (1986), Fi1m 84, Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/a-room-with-a-view.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Wild Horse Nine* (2026), Producer

## Also known for

- *The King* (2019), Co-Producer
- *The Iron Lady* (2011), Producer
- *Anthropoid* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Far from the Madding Crowd* (2015), Producer
- *My Cousin Rachel* (2017), Co-Producer
- *Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974* (2009), Producer
- *The Little Stranger* (2018), Co-Producer
- *Breaking and Entering* (2006), Line Producer

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