Kelly Marcel

Kelly Marcel (born 10 January 1974) is a British screenwriter, actress and television producer. She is best known for writing the films Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), Venom (2018), its sequels Let There Be Carnage (2021) and the upcoming third film, the latter she will make her directorial debut. She also created and served as executive producer of the television series Terra Nova. Biography Marcel is the daughter of director Terry Marcel and actress Lindsey Brook, and the older sister of actress Rosie Marcel. Career Marcel has played minor roles in television series such as The Bill, Holby City, and Casualty. She had a largely non-speaking role as Young Vera in the 1994 television film adaptation of A Dark-Adapted Eye. Marcel eventually quit acting to pursue writing, while working part-time in Prime Time Video, a video rental shop in Battersea, London. Around the corner from the video shop was the Latchmere pub, where Tom Hardy hosted an acting workshop. Marcel and Hardy became friends, and he subsequently brought Marcel in to do uncredited rewrites on his 2008 film Bronson, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, after it ran into trouble. One of Hardy's tattoos says 'Skribe' in tribute to Marcel.