Gibb was born in Greenock, Scotland. She studied drama and sociology at Glasgow University and then did a post-graduate teaching degree at Manchester Polytechnic before going on to do an acting course at the Drama Studio London. She acted regularly in theatre and television before she started writing. Her most high-profile role was as Deirdre, Calum Buchanan's girlfriend in All Creatures Great and Small. "When I was doing All Creatures, I had absolutely no desire, no intention, no belief that I could write," recalled Gibb in 2016. "It never occurred to me, and it was never something I imagined myself doing in the future. My writing career just happened, almost accidentally, and now I don't act very much at all. Occasionally I'll do the odd short film for a friend. I did a theatre job about three years ago that I absolutely loved. I miss actors and I miss that sense of camaraderie. You become a family." "I had just moved from London up to Liverpool because my partner at the time was made the associate director of the Everyman Theatre, so I moved with him. I was doing a fair bit of acting in the North West around Liverpool, including at the Everyman, but I still had a London agent, so I was going down for auditions all the time. She rang me and asked if I'd be interested in going up for All Creatures Great and Small because they were looking for a Scottish character. At first I thought it was to play a vet and I was really excited, then I read the script and, of course, it transpired that Deirdre worked at the Ministry of Agriculture." Gibb was also a regular presenter on the children's television programme Let's Pretend.[citation needed] She was shortlisted for The Dennis Potter Award with her screenplay Lucky Bag and then went on to win a Mental Health Media Award for the film Golden Wedding, which she wrote for BBC Scotland. She then wrote the screenplays for Dear Frankie and AfterLife. Both these films were shot in her home town of Greenock at exactly the same time. She has a small cameo role in Dear Frankie. Gibb was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Scotland award for best Screenwriter. She was nominated for a Scotland on Sunday/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award and won the Scottish Screen Bowmore filmmaker of the year award in 2005. She also won the Women in Film and Television Script award for her work on these two films.[citation needed] Gibb is currently in development with several projects including high-profile adaptations of Swallows and Amazons for BBC Films, Vikram Seth's An Equal Music for Cuba Pictures, Rose Tremain's The Road Home for BBC 2 and Andrea Gillies's Keeper for BBC1.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Greenock, Scotland, UK
- Writer and actor, also producer
- 9 on MovieCove · 16 credits in all
What are Andrea Gibb's films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 1 · Dark 1
Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 2 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet5
- Tragic1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Andrea Gibb's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
- BritBox
Subscription and free streaming for Andrea Gibb's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
16 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page.
Miss Austen(2025)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Mayflies(2022)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Elizabeth Is Missing(2019)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Sanditon(2019)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows
Swallows and Amazons(2016)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Call the Midwife(2012)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Nina's Heavenly Delights(2006)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
Dear Frankie(2004)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
AfterLife (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Saved (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Nan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Golden Wedding (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Bite (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Life Without George (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all showsJohn & Nula (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 15 titles, 14 of them dated from 1978 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
2 major nominations and no wins, 2005–2020.
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Single Drama
- BAFTA Award, nominated
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Andrea Gibb's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 75th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 69th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up5
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 9 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved4
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Broadly Agreed1
Reviewers score the dialogue 56/100 and the plot and story 51/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Andrea Gibb work with?
People who share at least 2 of Andrea Gibb's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Aisling Walsh shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Aisling WalshShared titles: Miss Austen (2025), Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Aisling Walsh
Actors
- Jessica HynesShared titles: Miss Austen (2025), Swallows and Amazons (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Jessica Hynes
- Liv HillShared titles: Miss Austen (2025), Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Liv Hill
Composers and editors
- Alex MackieShared titles: Miss Austen (2025), Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Alex Mackie
- Dominik ScherrerShared titles: Miss Austen (2025), Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Dominik Scherrer
Producers
- Christine LanganShared titles: Miss Austen (2025), Swallows and Amazons (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Christine Langan
- Brian KaczynskiShared titles: Mayflies (2022), Dear Frankie (2004)See all 2 shared titles with Brian Kaczynski
- Gaynor HolmesShared titles: Mayflies (2022), Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Gaynor Holmes