Caroline O'Neill

Positive Role Model Award

Positive Role Model Award for Disability: Sponsor - BT

Nominee Profile

Location: London
Caroline O’Neill is an award-winning deaf Assistant Commissioner working with BBC Daytime and Early Peak.

She has over 20-years of TV experience spanning productions such as Joe and John Bishop: Life After Deaf, The Rap Game UK, and Disability & Abortion: The Hardest Choice. Her current slate includes Escape to the Country, Richard Osman’s House of Games, Garden Rescue, Animal Park, and Pointless; Caroline also worked as a co-commissioner on Rose Ayling Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks.

Before joining the BBC, Caroline was one of the original co-founders and directors of Deaf & Disabled People in TV, who were the recipients of the Grierson Hero of the Year Award 2023.