艾雷斯泰·法瑟吉尔(1960年4月10日出生于英国伦敦)是一位为电视和电影制作自然纪录片的制片人。他是多个奖项获奖系列《蓝色星球》(2001)和《行星地球》(2006)的执行制片人，同时也是相关故事片《深蓝与地球》的联合导演。

Fothergill 曾就读于哈罗公学。在杜伦大学期间，他在圣卡斯伯特学院学习动物学，并拍摄了自己的第一部电影《关于奥卡万戈 》。福瑟吉尔于1983年加入英国广播公司自然历史部门，参与《真正的野生动物秀》、《野生动物在一个人身上》和《生命的考验》的大卫·艾登堡。1992年，他被任命为该单位的负责人，在他的任期内，他制作了爱登堡的获奖系列片《冰箱中的生活》。

1998年6月，他辞去了该股股长的职务，专心从事《蓝色星球》的工作。他还提出了几个电视节目，包括深渊和三本书的作者。

他在2008年2月11日举行的和平电影奖颁奖典礼上被宝马公司授予“清洁能源奖”。

2008年，他与新成立的迪斯尼大自然公司签订了一份多部影片合同，现在他每年有六个月的时间从 BBC 休假，以独立制片人的身份制作专题纪录片。迪士尼合同的前两部电影将是《大猫》和《黑猩猩》 ，他将分别与基思 · 斯科利和马克 · 林菲尔德共同执导这两部电影。他还在为英国广播公司(BBC)制作新的七集自然历史系列节目《冰冻星球》(Frozen Planet) ，预计将于2011年完成。该系列影片将以极地气候急剧变化时期魅力动物的挣扎为主题。大卫·艾登堡将再次讲述。Fothergill 目前和他的妻子 Melinda 以及他的两个儿子 Hamish 和 William 住在布里斯托尔。

Alastair Fothergill (born 10 April 1960 in London the United Kingdom) is a producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema. He is the executive producer of the multi-award winning series The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006) and the co-director of the associated feature films Deep Blue and Earth.

Fothergill attended Harrow. He studied zoology at St Cuthbert's Society in the University of Durham and made his first film, On the Okavango, while still a student. Fothergill joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1983, working on The Really Wild Show, Wildlife on One and David Attenborough's The Trials of Life. He was appointed head of the Unit in 1992, and during his tenure he produced Attenborough's award-winning series Life in the Freezer.

In June 1998, he stood down as head of the Unit to concentrate on his work on The Blue Planet. He has also presented several television programmes, including The Abyss and is the author of three books.

He was awarded the "Clean Energy Award" by BMW during the Cinema for Peace award ceremony on 11 February 2008.

In 2008, he signed a multi-picture deal with newly formed Disneynature, and now spends six months each year on sabbatical from the BBC developing feature documentaries as an independent producer. The first two titles under the Disneynature deal will be Big Cats and Chimpanzee, which he is co-directing with Keith Scholey and Mark Linfield respectively. He is also producing a new seven-part natural history series for the BBC called Frozen Planet, due for completion in 2011. The series will feature the struggles of charismatic animals during a time of rapid climate change in the polar regions. David Attenborough will again narrate. Fothergill currently lives in Bristol with his wife Melinda and his two sons, Hamish and William.

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