---
name: "Naomi Despres"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/naomi-despres"
fi1m_id: "naomi-despres"
imdb_id: "nm0221638"
tmdb_id: 79665
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T22:24:40.757739+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."
---

# Naomi Despres

## Identity

Naomi Despres

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/naomi-despres
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** naomi-despres
- **IMDb ID:** nm0221638
- **TMDB ID:** 79665
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/79665

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 63, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 60 (1), 2020s 64 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 63 to 62 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/79665

## Coming up

- *Tender Loving Care* (2026-12-04), Executive Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Lizzie*](https://film.one/film/lizzie.md) (60)

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

## Biography

Naomi Despres is a film producer whose credits include *Zero Effect* (1998), *High Crimes* (2002, as co-producer), *Chapter 27* (2007), *The English Teacher* (2013), *Kill the Messenger* (2014), *Lizzie* (2018) and *Lying and Stealing* (2019). She has also served as executive producer on later projects including *Here After* (2024) and *Good Boy* (2026).

She has worked in film development for more than two decades, contributing to projects such as *The Joy Luck Club*, *The People vs. Larry Flynt*, *Nixon* and *Meet the Fockers*. Despres has additionally directed short films including *The Dancer* (2015) and *Away* (2016).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, the-numbers.com, s3.amazonaws.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Gentle Monster* (2026), Fi1m 64, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/gentle-monster.md)
- *H Is for Hawk* (2025), Fi1m 64, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/h-is-for-hawk.md)
- *Lizzie* (2018), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/lizzie.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *Tender Loving Care* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Gentle Monster* (2026), Executive Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/gentle-monster.md)
- *Good Boy* (2026), Executive Producer
- *H Is for Hawk* (2025), Executive Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/h-is-for-hawk.md)
- *Dragonfly* (2025), Executive Producer
- *A Pale View of Hills* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Things You Kill* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Uninvited* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Unmoored* (2024), Producer
- *Here After* (2024), Producer
- *Little Wing* (2024), Producer
- *India Sweets and Spices* (2021), Producer
- *Lying and Stealing* (2019), Producer
- *Lizzie* (2018), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/lizzie.md)
- *Kill the Messenger* (2014), Producer
- *The English Teacher* (2013), Producer
- *Boxing Day* (2012), Producer
- *The Kreutzer Sonata* (2008), Producer
- *Chapter 27* (2007), Producer
- *Porn 'n Chicken* (2002), Co-Executive Producer
- *High Crimes* (2002), Co-Producer
- *The 4th Floor* (1999), Producer
- *Zero Effect* (1998), Producer
- *(Saint) Peter*, Producer
- *Sister Maria Goes to Rome*, Producer
- *A Town in Nova Scotia*, Executive Producer
- *Rubber Hut*, Executive Producer

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