---
name: "Jon Finn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonathan-finn"
fi1m_id: "jonathan-finn"
imdb_id: "nm0278128"
tmdb_id: 463
wikidata_id: "Q98280589"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T02:44:24.580906+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."
---

# Jon Finn

## Identity

Jon Finn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jonathan-finn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jonathan-finn
- **IMDb ID:** nm0278128
- **TMDB ID:** 463
- **Wikidata ID:** Q98280589
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98280589, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278128/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/463

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1992–present
- **Also known as:** Jonathan Finn, Jonathon Finn
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 81 (1), 2000s 81 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 72 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Fantasy 2, Family 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $152m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98280589, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278128/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/463

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical*](https://film.one/film/roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jon Finn is a British film and television producer. He began his career in production roles, including as production coordinator on *Orlando* (1992). In 1996 he was appointed production executive at Working Title Films, and in 1999 co-founded its WT2 division with Natascha Wharton to support emerging UK talent.

Finn produced *Billy Elliot* (2000) with Greg Brenman; the film was WT2's first project. He later produced *My Little Eye* (2002), *Hunky Dory* (2011) and *Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical* (2022). He has also produced stage and screen versions of the *Billy Elliot* musical. Earlier credits include co-producing *Plunkett & Macleane* (1999) and producing the short film *Eight* (1998), which won the Jerwood Film Prize for Best Script and received a BAFTA nomination.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical* (2022), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical.md)
- *Billy Elliot* (2000), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/billy-elliot.md)
- *Orlando* (1992), Fi1m 81, Production Coordinator — [page](https://film.one/film/orlando.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical* (2022), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical.md)
- *B&B* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Billy Elliot: The Musical Live* (2014), Producer
- *Doors Open* (2012), Producer
- *My Little Eye* (2002), Producer
- *Long Time Dead* (2002), Co-Producer
- *Billy Elliot* (2000), Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/billy-elliot.md)
- *Eight* (1998), Producer
- *Neverwhere* (1996), series, Line Producer
- *Orlando* (1992), Production Coordinator — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/orlando.md)
- *I Hired a Contract Killer* (1990), Production Assistant

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