Vera Graziadei

Vera Graziadei is a British writer-director and producer, and a LAMDA-trained actor with a degree and Master’s in Philosophy. Her award-winning short films were selected for OSCAR and BAFTA-qualifying festivals and screened around the world.

Her portfolio includes BAFTA-qualifying drama The Silent Canary, docudrama nic_unextinct, dark comedy In the Woods with a Dead Dog, adapted from Michel Faber’s short story, and a comedy A Map of the World. Vera’s recent short about a Ukrainian refugee boy Ivanko’s Childhood, starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Sinead Matthews and Sandra Dickinson, is on a festival circuit. She is currently developing her first feature, Symbiont, a sci-fi horror-drama selected for the Fantastic Pavillion Round Robin at the Marché Du Film, Cannes Film Festival 2026.

Vera is a founder of Luminous Arts Productions and producer of The Book of Vision, which was executively produced by Terrence Malick. The film, directed by Carlo Hintermann and starring Charles Dance, Lotte Verbeek, and Sverrir Gudnason, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, opened the Warsaw Film Festival and was nominated for Best Film at Sitges FF. Distributed by Celluloid Dreams, it had an international cinema release, including UK, and is now available on major VOD platforms.

Alongside her work as a writer-director and producer, Vera has an extensive acting career. She was signed by Curtis Brown while at LAMDA, and spent a decade with them, honing her craft in film, TV, theatre and radio both in the UK and internationally. She’s often recognised for her role as Elena in the British cult sitcom Peep Show, working alongside Olivia Colman, David Mitchell, and Robert Webb. She acted in Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love alongside Steve Coogan and in leading roles in Vampire Killers with Myanna Buring, James Corden and Matthew Horne, BBC series The Deep, with Minnie Driver, Antonia Thomas, Tom Wlaschiha and Tobias Menzies and in Me and Mrs Jones, with Sarah Alexander, Jonathan Bailey and Robert Sheehan.