Arquette (20th Century Fox 1999). In 2005, she produced Faith, a 4Way Pictures/Company Pictures production about the 1984–1985 national miners' strike. She was an executive producer of the 2009 Iraqi film Son of Babylon. In 2010, she and Kay Mellor realised their story about Mellor's mother in A Passionate Woman (BBC 2010), which the duo directed. In 2011, Cross My Mind, Bird's next film, was set to start shooting. In 2012, Bird directed the first four episodes of the first series of Peter Moffat's BBC period drama, The Village. Series 2 episode 1 finishes with the tribute 'For Antonia Bird 1951–2013'. Affiliations Bird was a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the Directors Guild of America, Directors UK, BECTU, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Death Bird died from a rare anaplastic thyroid cancer on 24 October 2013 at the age of 62. She is survived by her husband, the TV editor Ian Ilet. Filmography Television Film See also List of female film and television directors List of LGBT-related films directed by women References External links Additional sources Ciecko, Anne T. "Sex, God, Television, Realism, and the British Women Filmmakers Beeban Kidron and Antonia Bird", Journal of Film and Video, Spring 1999, pp. 22–41 McCabe, Bob. "East End Heat", Sight and Sound, October 1997, pp. 10–12 1951 births 2013 deaths BAFTA winners (people) Deaths from cancer in England Deaths from thyroid cancer English film directors English television directors English theatre directors People from Kensington English women film directors British women television directors