Emma Freud

Emma Freud is a broadcaster, film script editor, producer of Red Nose Day, co-creator of the Make Poverty History Campaign and co-producer of the Live 8 concerts.

Emma has been a co-host on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends since it started. For 6 years she hosted NT Live, Royal National Theatre productions broadcast to cinemas around the world.

Emma writes the column ‘Legal Highs’ for Luxx: The Times’ Luxury Magazine and won Glamour Magazine's ‘Columnist of the Year’ award for her series of articles in the Telegraph about her year living in New York.

Emma has worked with her partner Richard Curtis as either script editor or co-producer of iconic British movies including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually, About Time, Mamma Mia 2, and Yesterday.

For decades Emma has worked with Comic Relief to help alleviate poverty across the globe. And in 2011, she was awarded her OBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to the charitable sector.