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Emma Cooper

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Emma Cooper is a British Director and Executive Producer. Well known for directing Depp V Heard, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, Law and Disorder in Philadelphia; as well as executive producing The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann and Who Killed Jill Dando?[1] amongst many others. Cooper previously worked as a Producer and Director at the BBC from 1999-2011 before becoming Commissioning Editor of Documentaries for Channel 4 until 2016. After Channel 4 Cooper became Global President of non fiction at Pulse Films until 2019. She is now the founder and CCO of Empress Films[2] a production company.

Cooper was born in Stockport and attended Stockport Grammar School before attending Newcastle University to take a BA in English Language and Literature.

Cooper has been BAFTA award nominated as Best Director in the factual category for the film The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes in 2023. While also producing the BAFTA award winning short-film The Black Cop[3] in 2022

She has a son and lives in South-West London.

Cooper is also a supporter of Fulham FC

  1. ^ Who Killed Jill Dando? (Documentary, Crime, History), Jane Moore, Gareth Snow, Jon Roseman, 42, Empress Films, 2023-09-26, retrieved 2024-08-05{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ "Home". Empress Films. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
  3. ^ The Black Cop (Short 2021) - Awards - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-08-05 – via www.imdb.com.