Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) is a talent

Talent agent

A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, producers, professional athletes, writers and other people in various entertainment businesses. Having an agent is not required, but does help the artist in getting jobs...

 and literary agency

Literary agent

A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwriters and major non-fiction writers...

 based in London

London

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, England. One of the oldest agencies in Britain, and a co-founder of the Association of Authors' Agents, it is home to a distinguished and varied client list, including Simon Schama

Simon Schama

Simon Michael Schama, CBE is a British historian and art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain...

, William Hague

William Hague

William Jefferson Hague is the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001...

, Sarah Raven

Sarah Raven

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, Twiggy

Twiggy

Lesley Lawson née Hornby known as Twiggy is an English model, actress, and singer. In the early-1960s she became a prominent British teenage model of swinging sixties London with others such as Penelope Tree....

, Sir Max Hastings

Max Hastings

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. He is the son of Macdonald Hastings, the noted British journalist and war correspondent and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.-Life and career:Hastings was educated at Charterhouse...

, Chris Patten

Chris Patten

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC , is the last Governor of British Hong Kong, a former British Conservative politician, and the current chairman of the BBC Trust....

, Philip Norman

Philip Norman (author)

Philip Norman is an English novelist, biographer, journalist and playwright.Norman grew up in Ryde, Isle of Wight. He attended Ryde School, and his father, Clive Norman, ran the Seagull Ballroom on Ryde Pier. He described his childhood in his book Babycham Night...

 and such estates as V.S. Pritchett

V. S. Pritchett

Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett CH CBE , was a British writer and critic. He was particularly known for his short stories, collected in a number of volumes...

, C.S. Forester

C. S. Forester

Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen...

 and Storm Jameson

Storm Jameson

Margaret Storm Jameson was an English writer, known for her 45 novels, and criticism.She was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, and studied at the University of Leeds. She moved to London, where she earned an MA from King's College London in 1914 and then went on to teach before becoming a full-time writer...

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PFD was created when the A. D. Peters

A. D. Peters

Augustus Dudley Peters was a British literary and talent agent, and a film producer.His agency merged with Fraser and Dunlop Agency to produce Peters, Fraser & Dunlop, which in 1999 became PFD, with offices in London and New York...

 Agency merged with the Fraser and Dunlop Agency in 1989. Previously, the two agencies had been leaders in their fields with A. D. Peters being one of the most distinguished literary agents in the world, whilst Fraser and Dunlop was one of the most respected agencies working with talent from the film, TV and theatre industries. The merger created a formidable agency and it went on to represent some of the most famous actors, writers and directors of the nineties, including Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis

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, Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby is an English novelist, essayist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.-Life and career:Hornby was...

 and Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

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In 1999, the agents at PFD sold the company to CSS Stellar. In 2007 many of these agents left to form United Agents

United Agents

United Agents is a British talent and literary agency founded in 2007. It is situated on Lexington Street in London, UK and was set up by agents who had left Peters, Fraser & Dunlop . It is chaired by Lindy King and the managing director is St...

. In 2008, PFD was bought from CSS Stellar by a consortium led by Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil

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. A settlement was reached with United Agents on all issues, and this allowed both agencies to focus on serving their clients and developing their respective businesses.

The Rights House was formed in 2010, bringing together Peters Fraser and Dunlop, with the talent agency MF Management. Peters Fraser & Dunlop, with a literary history dating from 1924, continues to work with and represent writers and estates from around the world across all platforms. Rights House Talent, formerly MF Management, represents leading actors and presenters in film, television and theatre and also handles public speaking for all clients. PFD has offices based in Covent Garden

Covent Garden

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PFD's agents are Caroline Michel, Michael Sissons and Fiona Petheram, Robert Caskie, Annabel Merullo, Rowan Lawton, Juliet Mushens and Camilla Shestopal. Its foreign rights team is headed by Rachel Mills.