Andy Harries

Andy Harries is Chief Executive and co-founder of Left Bank Pictures an award-winning UK based production company formed in 2007. In a career spanning four decades he has produced some of the UK's most successful television dramas including The Royle Family, Cold Feet, the revivals of Prime Suspect and Cracker, as well as the BAFTA-winning television play The Deal.

In 2006 he received an Academy Award nomination as producer of The Queen, which saw Helen Mirren win Best Actress for her role, and in 2007, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded him the Special Award in Honour of Alan Clarke. 2011 saw the Royal Television Society confer a Fellowship on Harries for outstanding contributions to the broadcasting industry. He has been described by Broadcast Magazine as "one of the UK's most outstanding drama producers".

Since 2007, Left Bank has produced the television series Wallander, Strike Back and Outlander (TV series) amongst many other acclaimed dramas.

He is married to novelist and director Rebecca Frayn.

Rebecca Frayn (Spouse), Emmy Harries (Daughter), Jackson (Jack) Harries, Finnegan (Finn) Harries, Eliza Frayn (Niece), Shayne Finn Zigich (Nephew)

Andy Harries was born in Inverness, Scotland on 7 April 1954 and grew up in Peterborough, England, receiving primary education at West Town Primary School until 1961, and secondary education at the public Oakham School. He grew up aspiring to be a war correspondent in Vietnam, or an investigative journalist; his idols were Harold Evans, Jon Swain and John Pilger. He left college at the age of 17 with poor A Level results and became a trainee reporter on the Peterborough Evening Telegraph newspaper. His time on the newspaper raised his awareness of politics, and he sought to further his understanding of it by studying at university. He applied to various northern universities to break away from his southern middle-class lifestyle, and was accepted at Hull University.

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