Gemma Jackson Filmography

The Other Man

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Romola Garai, Craig Parkinson

Synopsis: Rainmark and Gotham Films present this tale of a scorned husband who seeks out the man he thinks is involved with his wife in Richard Eyre's adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Other Man. Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas and Romola Garai star in the joint UK/USA production. Read More

John Adams

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane, Danny Huston, David Morse, Sarah Polley, Tom Wilkinson, Rufus Sewell

Synopsis: Emmy Award-winning director Tom Hopper takes the helm for this epic, seven-part miniseries produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and presenting American history as seen from the perspective of fiercely independent founding father John Adams (Paul Giamatti). Based on author David Read More

Finding Neverland

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, Dustin Hoffman, Freddie Highmore

Synopsis: Following up his critically acclaimed Monster's Ball, director Marc Forster took on this biography of playwright James Matthew Barrie, the scribe who penned the children's classic Peter Pan. Johnny Depp stars as the turn-of-the-century writer as the film follows Barrie as he struggles to write and Read More

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones

Synopsis: Based on author Helen Fielding's sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget (Renée Zellweger) emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her barrister boyfriend. Stability in Bridget's Read More

Spartan

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Kristen Bell

Synopsis: David Mamet writes and directs the political thriller Spartan. Respected Secret Service agent Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is assigned to the kidnapping case of Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), the missing daughter of a high-ranking political figure. Scott is teamed up with rookie Curtis (Derek Luke). Read More

Killing Me Softly

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes

Synopsis: The director of such highly regarded films as Yellow Earth (1984) and Farewell, My Concubine (1993), Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige makes his English-language debut with this erotic thriller adapted from the novel by Nicci French. Alice (Heather Graham) is an American Web designer living in Illinois Read More

Iris

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton

Synopsis: Based on a pair of memoirs by her husband John Bayley, this biographical portrait of writer Iris Murdoch stars both Judi Dench and Kate Winslet as the philosophical author at different stages of her life. When the young Iris (Winslet) meets fellow student Bayley (Hugh Bonneville) at Oxford, he's a Read More

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Stephen Fry, Michael Legge, Laura Fraser, Lulu

Synopsis: Set during the swinging disco era in decidedly unswinging Sheffield, England, this oddball comedy is both a coming-of-age story about getting funky and a supernatural mystery. Vince (Michael Legge) is a Travolta-obsessed teenager who lives with his aspiring magician brother; his randy mom, who has Read More

Bridget Jones's Diary

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal Read More

State and Main

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Charles Durning, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patti LuPone, William H. Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon

Synopsis: Echoing the themes of Living in Oblivion and Irma Vep, David Mamet's seventh feature centers on the havoc wrought on the inhabitants of a small town by a troubled film production. After its leading man's propensity for teenage girls gets them banished from their New Hampshire location, a film crew Read More

Limbo

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, Kris Kristofferson, Casey Siemaszko, Kathryn Grody, Rita Taggart, Michael Laskin

Synopsis: Writer/director John Sayles once again takes his audience to a place they may never have been before (this time both psychologically and geographically). Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn) lives in Juneau, Alaska, where his life has been stuck in neutral for about 25 years. When he was young, Joe Read More

The Winslow Boy

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Gemma Jones, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Guy Edwards

Synopsis: Playwright and filmmaker David Mamet, best known for gritty, emotionally powerful dramas such as American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross and Oleanna, approaches something different with this project, a screen adaptation of Terrence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy, which was previously filmed in Read More

The Borrowers

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie, Bradley Pierce

Synopsis: Peter Hewitt (Tom and Huck) directed this $30-million family film, an adaptation of Mary Norton's classic children's novels about a miniature family of wee folk, four inches high, living beneath the floorboards of an English cottage. The Borrowers family, so labeled because they "borrow" from the Read More

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows, Monica Keena, Miroslav Táborský

Synopsis: Once upon a time, pursuing wolves frighten horses drawing a carriage, and it tumbles down a hill. Dying, the pregnant woman inside orders her grieving husband Frederick (Sam Neill) to cut the baby from her womb, so that at least it might live. Years later, the infant is now headstrong young Lilli (Taryn Davis Read More

Tom and Huck

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Eric Schweig, Charles Rocket, Amy Wright

Synopsis: This Disney live-action film is a very loose adaptation of Mark Twain's two novels about boyhood friends in Hannibal, MO, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which omits some of the darker themes and undertones in the original books. Television star Jonathan Taylor Thomas Read More

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Adam Beach, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Gambon, Nathaniel Parker, Eric Schweig

Synopsis: Native American history got the Disney treatment in this biography aimed at younger audiences. Adam Beach stars as Squanto, an Eastern Massachusetts native of the 17th century, who befriends the English settlers who are starting to colonize the region. Naively trusting his new friends, Squanto and Read More

A Far Off Place

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Jack Thompson, Sarel Bok, Maximilian Schell

Synopsis: The directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Mikael Salomon (The Abyss), A Far Off Place is based on a pair of books by novelist Laurens Van der Post. Reese Witherspoon stars as Nonnie Parker, a young girl living on an African game preserve with her parents. Ethan Embry is Read More

Blame It on the Bellboy

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan Brown Read More

The Miracle

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Donal McCann, Niall Byrne, Lorraine Pilkington, J.G. Devlin

Synopsis: Neil Jordan's lyrical Irish romance takes place in the small seaside town of Bray (near Dublin) and concerns two teenage friends, Jimmy (Niall Byrne) and Rose (Lorraine Pilkington). They spend their days roaming the cobblestone streets and waterlogged piers. To while away the time, Rose and Jimmy Read More

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland, Patsy Kensit, Keith Allen, Liz Fraser

Synopsis: Director Bernard Rose and screenwriter David Yallop were inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, famously known as The Cleft Chin Murder Case, after a London cabbie was found murdered. It was a sensation in England, where American soldier Karl Hulten and British showgirl Read More

Paperhouse

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Charlotte Burke, Ben Cross, Glenne Headly, Elliott Spears, Gemma Jones, Sarah Newbold

Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Charlotte Burke, the neglected daughter of Ben Cross and Glenne Headley, passes out on the school playground and dreams of visiting a house she'd previously drawn in her composition book. She imagines another visit to her "paper house" while playing hide-and-seek. Experimenting, Burke Read More

Code Name: Chaos

Crew: Production Designer

Synopsis: A group of former CIA agents team up to ransom the entire world by staging an international crisis in the Orient. Only one man (Brian Kerwin), also an agent, can stop them. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Friendship's Death

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Bill Paterson, Tilda Swinton, Patrick Bauchau, Ruby Baker, Joumana Gill

Synopsis: The conflict in Palestine during the '70s provides the setting for this challenging political sci-fi film that centers on an alien woman from a distant galaxy who has come to make peace. As the tale begins, archival films of the "Black September," battles that leveled Amman, Jordan are shown. The Read More

The Girl in the Picture

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Irina Brook, David McKay, Gregor Fisher, Caroline Guthrie

Synopsis: Alan (John Gordon-Sinclair), a young British photographer, would like to break off his relationship with live-in girlfriend Mary (Irina Brook). Even as this little domestic drama is played out, Alan's assistant, Ken (David McKay), would like to launch a relationship with the young woman. Trouble Read More

Mona Lisa

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane, Kate Hardie, Clarke Peters

Synopsis: Bob Hoskins plays George, a tough but basically goodhearted British mob flunky, recently released from prison, where he'd served a term to cover up for his gangster boss (Michael Caine). Still willing to be everyone's doormat, George agrees to act as chauffeur for Simone (Cathy Tyson), a haughty Read More

Doll's Eye

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Sandy Ratcliffe, Bernice Stegers, Richard Tolan, Paul Copley

Synopsis: A lighter hand may have helped the Doll's Eye to bring home its message of women as second-class citizens, three women in particular: a switchboard operator, a single mother selling herself in prostitution to make ends meet, and another mother working as a journalist -- all neighbors. The three Read More