Rebecca Frayn is a film maker and screenwriter. She has directed a wide variety of quirky documentary essays for the
BBC,
Channel 4 and
ITV on subjects that range from Tory Wives to the Friern Barnet Mental Asylum and identical twins. She played the role of June in the 1979 TV movie
One Fine Day, directed by
Stephen Frears and starring
Robert Stephens and
Dominic Guard. She appeared uncredited as the photograph image by
Denis O'Regan of
Liam Neeson's character's dead wife, Joanna, in the film
Love Actually (2003), directed by
Richard Curtis. She made her drama debut as a director with
Whose Baby? for ITV, a TV drama that tackled father's rights, starring
Sophie Okonedo and
Andrew Lincoln. A screenplay she wrote for the BBC,
Killing Me Softly explored the true story of Sara Thornton, whose conviction for murder helped bring about a reform of the law on domestic violence. She has written and/or directed a number of films about prominent women, including
Leni Riefenstahl,
Annie Leibovitz and
Nora Ephron. Her screenplay about
Aung San Suu Kyi,
The Lady, directed by Luc Besson and starring
Michelle Yeoh and
David Thewlis was awarded the
Amnesty International Human Rights Film Award in 2011. Her first novel,
One Life, dealt with the complex emotional and ethical landscape of
IVF. Her second novel,
Deceptions, is a psychological thriller, inspired by a true story; it explores the impact on a family when a child goes missing. After making a short film in 2008 opposing the proposed
expansion of London Heathrow Airport, Frayn co-founded We CAN, a group who lobbied the government to take action on climate change in the run up to the 2010 Copenhagen Conference. Frayn wrote the screenplay for the 2020 film
Misbehaviour, that deals with the controversy surrounding the
1970 Miss World competition, and the birth of
feminism. == Personal life ==