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Born in London, England. Prominent figure of the beleaguered British film industry. In 1981 Woolley, a former journalist, and entrepreneur Nik Powell co-founded Palace Pictures, a successful distribution company which brought to England such films as DIVA (1982) and BLOOD SIMPLE (1984). He then moved into production with Powell and Chris Brown and has enjoyed critical and commercial success with features including Neil Jordan's COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) and MONA LISA (1986) and Chris Bernard's LETTER TO BREZHNEV (1985). Largely due to the steadily worsening economic environment for British filmmakers, Palace went bankrupt in 1992. With partial funding from corporate giant Polygram, Woolley and Powell went on to form Scala Productions, named after London's Scala cinema, where Woolley had begun his film career as programmer and manager. Other notable credits, usually as executive producer, include SCANDAL (1989), INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994), MICHAEL COLLINS (1996), FEVER PITCH and THE BUTCHER BOY (both 1997), LITTLE VOICE (1998), IN DREAMS and THE END OF THE AFFAIR (both 1999), PURELY BETTER (2000), THE GOOD THIEF (2002), INTERMISSION and THE ACTORS (both 2003), RETURN TO SENDER (2004), BREAKFAST ON PLUTO and STONED (both 2005), AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? (2007), and HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE (scheduled for release in 2008).  Nominated for Best Picture of the Year 1992: THE CRYING GAME - Producer at Palace Pictures 1 nomination