A graduate of Loyola University, Los Angeles, where she majored in motion picture and television communications, Barbara Broccoli has worked in the production and casting departments at EON Productions for many years.
Starting her career as an assistant director on Octopussy and A View To A Kill, Broccoli became associate producer on The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill with Tom Pevsner. She and Wilson then went on to produce the next eight Bond films including the box office hit Skyfall, which earned a BAFTA for Best British film in 2012.
Apart from her work on Bond, Broccoli executive produced The Silent Storm starring Damian Lewis and Andrea Riseborough and through her own independent production company, Astoria Productions, Broccoli produced "Crime of the Century" (1996) for HBO.
Broccoli was awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in Her Majesty the Queen's New Year's Honours list 2008. In 2014, she was honoured by the Producers' Guild of America with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. Broccoli was chair on the board of directors for the film education charity, First Light until 2014.
Together with Michael Wilson she has produced a number of stage productions including "La Cava" (2000), "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (2002 London, 2005 Broadway), and "A Steady Rain" (2009). In 2012 they adapted the critically acclaimed film "Once" which opened on Broadway to rave reviews and garnered 8 Tony Awards and has finished showing in London's West End. Wilson and Broccoli also adapted "Chariots of Fire" which opened in the summer of 2012 in London's West End. They also produced the play "Strangers on a Train" which ran in London's West End (2012/2013).
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