Emma Norton (producer)

Emma Norton
Norton at the 2025 New York Film Festival
OccupationsFilm and television producer
Known forNormal People; Conversations with Friends; The Dry; The Eternal Daughter; Pillion
SpouseMalcolm Campbell

Emma Norton is a film and television producer associated with Element Pictures. She is known for executive producing the television dramas Normal People (2020), Conversations with Friends (2022) and The Dry (2022—).[1][2][3] She has also produced the feature films Rosie (2018), The Souvenir Part II (2021), The Eternal Daughter (2022) and Pillion (2025), the latter of which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival where it won the section's Best Screenplay award.[4][5][6][7][8]

Career

Norton has held senior development and production roles at Element Pictures. In 2018 she was promoted to development producer after seven years as head of development at the company.[9]

She served as an executive producer on the adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel Normal People for BBC Three and Hulu, and returned as an executive producer on Conversations with Friends (2022) based on the novel of the same name.[1][2] She is also an executive producer of the Irish comedy-drama series The Dry for RTÉ and ITVX.[3]

Norton produced Paddy Breathnach's drama Rosie, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.[4] She also collaborated with Joanna Hogg as a producer on The Souvenir Part II (2021) and The Eternal Daughter (2022).[5][6] She produced Pillion (2025), the debut feature of writer-director Harry Lighton, for Element Pictures with backing from BBC Film and the British Film Institute.[7] The film premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, where Lighton won Best Screenplay.[8][10] A24 acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film.[11]

Personal life

Norton moved to Ireland to work for Element Pictures. The first film she worked on, "What Richard Did", was written by her husband, writer Malcolm Campbell.[12]

Filmography

Selected credits as producer include:

Film

Year Title Role Director
2016 A Date for Mad Mary Executive producer Darren Thornton
2018 Rosie Producer Paddy Breathnach
2021 The Souvenir Part II Producer Joanna Hogg
2022 The Eternal Daughter Producer Joanna Hogg
2025 Pillion Producer Harry Lighton

Television

Year(s) Title Role Network/Platform Episodes
2020 Normal People Executive producer BBC Three / Hulu / RTÉ One 12
2022 Conversations with Friends Executive producer BBC Three / Hulu / RTÉ One 12
2022–present The Dry Executive producer RTÉ / ITVX 16

References

  1. ^ a b "RTÉ to air Element Pictures' Normal People this spring". Scannain. March 17, 2020. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  2. ^ a b "BBC catches Conversations with Friends". C21Media. February 25, 2020. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Element Pictures' Emma Norton returns to The Dry". C21Media. May 9, 2024. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  4. ^ a b Rosie press kit (PDF) (Media notes). Element Pictures/Screen Ireland. 2018. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  5. ^ a b "The Souvenir Part II". British Film Institute. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  6. ^ a b "The Eternal Daughter receives Irish & UK theatrical release". Irish Film & Television Network. March 22, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  7. ^ a b Katz, David (April 14, 2025). "Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling lead Harry Lighton's Cannes-bound Pillion". Cineuropa. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  8. ^ a b "'Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo' wins Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes; screenplay prize to 'Pillion'". Reuters. May 23, 2025. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  9. ^ McCarthy, Esther. "Ireland's Element Pictures expanding, reveals staff moves (exclusive)". Screen. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  10. ^ "Un Certain Regard winners list 2025". Festival de Cannes. May 24, 2025. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  11. ^ Ritman, Alex (October 9, 2024). "A24 Acquires 'Pillion,' Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling's Kinky Queer Romance". Variety. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  12. ^ "Working Lives: Executive Producer Emma Norton | Royal Television Society". rts.org.uk. July 6, 2022. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
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