Melissa Parmenter

Known primarily for her extensive work as a Producer in the film industry, Melissa Parmenter began her close collaboration with director Michael Winterbottom over fifteen years ago, serving as associate producer on 9 Songs (2004). Since then, she has produced many of Winterbottom’s films, including all three entries in the critically acclaimed ‘Trip’ trilogy – The Trip (2010); The Trip to Italy (2014) and The Trip to Spain (2017). Parmenter also produced Winterbottom’s Paul Raymond biopic, The Look of Love, starring Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots and Tamsin Egerton; the prison inmate drama Everyday, starring John Simm and Shirley Henderson; Trishna, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ set in India, starring Riz Ahmed and Freida Pinto and tabloid murder story The Face of an Angel, starring Daniel Bruhl, Kate Beckinsale and Cara Delevingne.

Most recently Melissa produced Michael Winterbottom’s vThe Wedding Guest (Dev Patel/Radhika Apte), Greed – (Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher) and The Trip to Greece (Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon).  An accomplished composer and pianist, Parmenter, has also scored a number of films, including Winterbottom’s Genova (2008), starring Colin Firth and The Killer Inside Me (2010), with Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson. She also wrote the score for Simon Aboud’s film Comes A Bright Day featuring Timothy Spall, Imogen Poots and Craig Roberts. In April 2017 Melissa released a piano EP Scandinavia with Universal Music which showcased on Classic FM and featured on iTunes Top Ten releases.