Biography: Dean Baker is a partner at Hardy Son & Baker, the production company he founded with Tom Hardy in 2012. Baker was most recently an executive producer on the hit TV series Taboo, as well as Steven Knight’s adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. HSB has a TV first look deal with FX. Baker spent 15 years working in advertising before HSB, producing many award-winning TV commercials and founding TV content production entities within operating companies of WPP. Along with his partner Tom Hardy, Baker is set to produce Unreasonable Behaviour with Angelina Jolie directing, Once A Pilgrim with Working Title Films and Shackleton with David Heyman and Studio Canal.