Colin Vaines is a British film and Emmy-winning television producer whose credits include The Unforgivable, starring Sandra Bullock, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Gangs of New York, Coriolanus, The Young Victoria, and The Rum Diary.
Beginning his career in 1977 as a journalist with Screen International (which he went on to edit) he left journalism to run the UK's National Film Development Fund, and in 1987 oversaw UK development for Columbia Pictures during David Puttnam's tenure at the studio, subsequently becoming head of development for Puttnam’s, Enigma, working on films including Memphis Belle. He made his debut as a producer in 1992 with the Emmy-winning TV film A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, which introduced Ralph Fiennes in the title role.
After co-producing Michael Radford's B. Monkey, Vaines supervised production and development for UK lottery franchise The Film Consortium from 1997 to 1999, overseeing movies including Hideous Kinky, starring Kate Winslet. He was then appointed Executive Vice-President, Development for New York-based Miramax Films, and in 2007 he joined Graham King's GK Films in Los Angeles as Co-President of Production.
Returning to freelance production in 2010, Vaines produced Coriolanus, which marked the directing debut of its star, Ralph Fiennes. Vaines was co-producer of WE, the directing debut of Madonna, and co-executive producer of My Week With Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh - both of whom were Oscar-nominated. In 2015, he produced The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, was an executive producer of Red Dog: True Blue, and two years later a producer of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool.
In 2021, Vaines was executive producer of The Unforgivable for Netflix, and more recently is producer with Lee Brazier on The Beauty of Sharks, a thriller set in Italy to be directed by Peter Chelsom and executive producer of Faithfull, a biography of the iconic singer Marianne Faithfull.
