Kidron is a film director and crossbench member of the House of Lords, known for her campaigning on children's online safety.

Her films include the BAFTA-winning television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1990), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).

• She was made a life peer in 2012, and founded the 5Rights Foundation, a children's digital rights charity, in 2013.

• She championed the United Kingdom's Age Appropriate Design Code, and has campaigned to protect creators from the unlicensed use of their work to train artificial intelligence.