Patricia Llewellyn

Patricia Llewellyn (born Carmarthen, West Wales in 1962) is a British television producer and Managing Director of the television production company, Optomen (which in 2010 became part of the All3Media group).

Llewellyn is best known for her work on cookery programmes (she won the Glenfiddich Independent Spirit Award for her "progressive and confident approach to food and drink broadcasting"). She has a reputation as a starmaker, having built hit series around previously unknown chefs, notably Two Fat Ladies (with Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright) and The Naked Chef (with Jamie Oliver) for which she won her first BAFTA. Her other credits include Heston's Feasts (winner of a Royal Television Society Award), and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (winner of two BAFTAs, an International Emmy and a Grierson Award) plus food magazine series The F Word for chef Gordon Ramsay.

Llewellyn has also had success finding on-screen talent outside of food: BBC2 series Mary Queen Of Shops launched the career of Mary Portas, and Two Men In A Trench (also for BBC2) launched the television career of archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver. Llewellyn also executive produced The F**king Fulfords, a BAFTA nominated documentary for Channel 4.

Outside of the UK, Patricia Llewellyn is Executive Producer on Kitchen Nightmares, Masterchef, Masterchef Jr and Hotel Hell for Fox Broadcasting in the USA.

In her role as Managing Director of Optomen, Llewellyn has led the company through a period of rapid growth, it now has production offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. In 2014, the Broadcast Annual Survey named the company the 7th largest independent production company in the UK, with a turnover of over £57m, when Llewellyn joined turnover was under £10m.