CEO & Co-Founder, Left Bank Pictures
Andy is Chief Executive and co-founder of Left Bank Pictures, a multi award-winning UK-based film and television production company. The company was established in 2007 with a majority stake acquired by Sony in 2012. At Left Bank Pictures, Harries has Executive produced a huge range of TV and film including six seasons of The Crown, Quiz, Behind Her Eyes, Outlander, Without Sin, Three Pines, The Fear Index, White Lines, Wallander, Mad Dogs, Strike Back, Sitting In Limbo, Who Is Erin Carter? and Everything Now, and the feature films The Damned United, Misbehaviour, The Lady, and The Queen, which was Oscar nominated. Latest productions include Department Q for Netflix, This City is Ours for BBC, and the television adaptation of the Olivier Award winning play, Dear England.
Amongst numerous Emmy, BAFTA, Golden Globe and RTS awards for Left Bank Pictures’ output, The Crown has won 24 Emmys including Netflix’s first ever Emmy for Best Drama Series. Prior to establishing Left Bank Pictures, Harries was Controller of Drama, Comedy and Film for Granada Productions. During this period, he produced countless British classics including The Deal, Prime Suspect, Cold Feet and The Royle Family, winning Golden Globes, Emmys and BAFTAs and receiving an Academy Award nomination as a producer of The Queen, which saw a run of six Academy Award nominations. In 2007, Andy was awarded the Special Achievement award by BAFTA, and in May 2011, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society for outstanding contribution to the broadcasting industry. Appointed an OBE in 2019 for services to film and television, Andy is also a theatre producer whose credits include the Tony and Olivier Award-winning play The Audience, starring both Helen Mirren and Kristin Scott Thomas.