Biography
Eric Abraham is a South African-British film, television and theatre producer. Born in March 1954 in Wynberg, Cape Town, he trained at the University of Cape Town and worked as a journalist before being banned and placed under house arrest by the South African apartheid government in 1976. He went into exile in the United Kingdom the following year.
Abraham produced the Academy Award-winning films Kolya (1996) and Ida (2013). His other credits include The War Zone (1999), Dark Blue World (2001), Birthday Girl (2001), Empties (2007), Quiet Chaos (2008), The Forgiveness of Blood (2011) and Moffie (2019). He founded Portobello Productions and was founding producer of the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town from 2010 to 2021.
