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Kelly Marcel (born 10 January 1974) is a British writer, actress and television producer, best known as the creator and executive producer of the television series Terra Nova and writing the screenplays to Saving Mr. Banks and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Marcel is the daughter of director Terry Marcel and the older sister of British actress Rosie Marcel. and daughter of Lindsey Marcel Actress Lindsey Brook,
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 a video rental shop. Her first writing job to appear in public was doing uncredited re-rewrites of the 2009 Bronson, she knew Tom Hardy because he was running an acting workshop at a pub around the corner and the two have remained friends (one of his tattoos says "Skribe", a tribute to Marcel). Marcel was writing for five years before Terra Nova was picked up after an extensive bidding war between production companies.
Marcel is credited for the screenplay of the 2013 drama film Saving Mr. Banks, "a behind-the-scenes look at how the popular Disney film Mary Poppins came to be," starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers.
Marcel wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
