Julie Gardner

Julie Gardner
Gardner at Comic Con 2008
Born	Julie Ann Gardner (1969-06-04) 4 June 1969 (age 47) Neath, Wales, United Kingdom
Nationality	Welsh
Occupation	Television producer
Notable work	Doctor Who Torchwood The Sarah Jane Adventures
Spouse(s)	Julian Howarth
Children	Huckleberry

Julie Ann Gardner, MBE (born 4 June 1969) is a Welsh television producer. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of Doctor Who and its spin-off shows Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. She worked on Doctor Who from 2003 to 2009 before moving to Los Angeles to work at BBC Worldwide.

Gardner was born in Neath, and grew up in the Pont Walby area of Glynneath where her parents ran a local shop. She attended Llangatwg Comprehensive and Neath Port Talbot College where she was an outstanding student of A level English, History and Drama. She read English at the Queen Mary College, University of London. She initially worked as a teacher at Rhondda College, now part of Coleg Morgannwg, teaching English GCSE and A-Level, before in the mid-1990s she decided to switch to working in the television industry.

Her first job was as a producer's secretary on the second production block of the acclaimed BBC Two drama serial Our Friends in the North. Subsequently, she became a script reader and then a script editor, before working as a producer on BBC dramas such as Silent Witness and The Mrs Bradley Mysteries.

In 2000, Gardner began working as a Development Producer at London Weekend Television. There, she produced dramas including Me and Mrs. Jones and an updated version of Othello written by Andrew Davies and starring Eamonn Walker and Christopher Eccleston (in the Iago role). While at LWT, Gardner began working with Welsh writer Russell T Davies on the period drama Casanova.