---
name: "Sonia Friedman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sonia-friedman"
fi1m_id: "sonia-friedman"
imdb_id: "nm2300761"
tmdb_id: 1615773
wikidata_id: "Q7561709"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 April 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T19:42:46.763102+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."
---

# Sonia Friedman

## Identity

Sonia Friedman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sonia-friedman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sonia-friedman
- **IMDb ID:** nm2300761
- **TMDB ID:** 1615773
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7561709
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Friedman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7561709, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2300761/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1615773

Producer. Born 1 April 1965 in United Kingdom.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 April 1965, United Kingdom
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 86 (1), 2020s 61 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Friedman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7561709, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2300761/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1615773

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Together*](https://film.one/film/together-2021.md) (61)

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

## Biography

Sonia Friedman is a British theatre producer and founder of Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP). She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her early career included roles at the National Theatre from 1989 to 1993, after which she co-founded the theatre company Out of Joint. She later worked as a producer for the Ambassador Theatre Group before launching SFP in 2002.

Friedman has produced or executive produced numerous stage and screen works, including the television adaptations *Wolf Hall* (2015), *The Dresser* (2015) and *King Lear* (2018), as well as the film *Together* (2021). She received an OBE in 2016 and a CBE in 2023 for services to theatre. Her sister is the actress and singer Maria Friedman.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Together* (2021), Fi1m 61, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/together-2021.md)
- *Wolf Hall* (2015), Fi1m 86, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/wolf-hall.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Merrily We Roll Along* (2025), Producer
- *A Friend of Dorothy* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Walden* (2021), Producer
- *Together* (2021), Producer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/together-2021.md)
- *Funny Girl* (2018), Executive Producer
- *King Lear* (2018), Executive Producer
- *The Dresser* (2015), Executive Producer
- *National Theatre Live: Hamlet* (2015), Producer
- *Wolf Hall* (2015), series, Co-Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/wolf-hall.md)
- *Much Ado About Nothing* (2011), Producer
- *Knock Out* (1984), as Set Decoration

## Gallery

- ![Sonia Friedman](https://film.one/media/person/492337/gallery-d40975c82ac9.jpg) Sonia Friedman — Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_3_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Secretary of State Nadine Dorries meets theatre producer Sonia Friedman following a performance of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photo by Jake Johnstone / DCMS (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/492337/gallery-05b28acca9f8.jpg) Secretary of State Nadine Dorries meets theatre producer Sonia Friedman following a performance of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photo by Jake Johnstone / DCMS (2016) — Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Secretary_of_State_Nadine_Dorries_meets_Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_3.jpg/1280px-Secretary_of_State_Nadine_Dorries_meets_Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Secretary of State Nadine Dorries meets theatre producer Sonia Friedman following a performance of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photo by Jake Johnstone / DCMS (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/492337/gallery-5ccde5c1df5b.jpg) Secretary of State Nadine Dorries meets theatre producer Sonia Friedman following a performance of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photo by Jake Johnstone / DCMS (2016) — Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Secretary_of_State_Nadine_Dorries_meets_Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_7.jpg/1280px-Secretary_of_State_Nadine_Dorries_meets_Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_7.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Secretary of State Nadine Dorries meets theatre producer Sonia Friedman following a performance of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photo by Jake Johnstone / DCMS (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/492337/gallery-e709be9ffe89.jpg) Secretary of State Nadine Dorries meets theatre producer Sonia Friedman following a performance of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photo by Jake Johnstone / DCMS (2016) — Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Secretary_of_State_Nadine_Dorries_meets_Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_1.jpg/1280px-Secretary_of_State_Nadine_Dorries_meets_Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Secretary of State Nadine Dorries meets theatre producer Sonia Friedman following a performance of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photo by Jake Johnstone / DCMS (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/492337/gallery-7fe74bd7d2b2.jpg) Secretary of State Nadine Dorries meets theatre producer Sonia Friedman following a performance of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Photo by Jake Johnstone / DCMS (2016) — Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Secretary_of_State_Nadine_Dorries_meets_Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_6.jpg/1280px-Secretary_of_State_Nadine_Dorries_meets_Sonia_Friedman_at_Leopoldstadt%2C_Wyndham%27s_Theatre_on_28_January_2016_-_6.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Time 100 2018: Time 100 (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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