Gabrielle Tana

Gabrielle Tana is a film and television producer based in New York and London. She founded Magnolia Mae Films with partner Carolyn Marks Blackwood in 1996.

Gabrielle produced THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, an adaptation of Claire Tomalin's award-winning biography of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, starring Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones and directed by Fiennes. Also Philomena, a tragi-comic story of loss and redemption starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears from a script by Coogan and Jeff Pope.

Other feature films produced by Gabrielle include Coriolanus – an adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy starring Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, and Vanessa Redgrave and directed by Fiennes – and the Academy Award®-winning The Duchess, an adaptation of Amanda Foreman's best-selling biography, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire, starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes and directed by Saul Dibb.

Previously, Gabrielle produced on Michael Di Jiacomo's Animals with the Tollkeeper (starring Tim Roth, John Turturro, and Mickey Rooney), Goran Paskaljevic's Someone Else's America (starring Tom Conti and Miki Manojlovic), and Nannette Burstein and Brett Morgen's Academy Award®-nominated documentary, On the Ropes. In addition, Gabrielle is co-founder, with author George Dawes Green, of the long-running New York live storytelling series, The Moth. She produced the televised series, Evenings at The Moth, for the Trio Network. Prior to working as an independent producer, Gabrielle was a production executive for Walt Disney Pictures Europe.

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