Background
Gavron is the daughter of British printing millionaire, philanthropist and Labour Life Peer, Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron and Nicky Gavron, who is a member of the London Assembly and was previously a Deputy Mayor of London.
Gavron is the daughter of British printing millionaire, philanthropist and Labour Life Peer, Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron and Nicky Gavron, who is a member of the London Assembly and was previously a Deputy Mayor of London.
Gavron was educated at Camden School for Girls. She graduated from the University of York with a Bachelor in English in 1992 and an Master of Arts in film studies from Edinburgh College of Art when it was associated with Heriot-Watt University.
She then worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation for three years. She went on to study feature film directing at the National Film and Television School in London. The actor Rafi Gavron is the son of her half-brother, Simon Gavron.
Gavron began her film career making documentaries, a field that seemed "more accessible at that point," but kept returning to her love of narrative filmmaking and desire to tell stories.
Gavron made her feature film debut in 2007 with an adaptation of Monica Ali"s novel Brick Lane. In 2015 she directed the film Suffragette about a fictional working-class suffragette played by Carey Mulligan.
The film was acquired by Focus Features (originally Relativity) in March 2015. The film premiered at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival.
6 April 1970 - 6 August 1999: Mission Sarah Gavron
6 August 1999 - date: The Honourable Sarah Gavron.