Nora Francesca Blackburne (21 April 1914 – 7 July 2009) was a British casting director and civil servant.
As a striking young woman amongst a very exciting and creative and mostly male crew at the Ministry of Information's Crown Film Unit its leader Ian Dalrymple saw she needed a challenge and made her the Assistant to the pioneering documentary film-maker Humphrey Jennings.
He was the elder brother of Laurie Lee, and became a film director post war.
Later she had a series of jobs including working at the National Coal Board's staff college, The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, former home of her first husband, Adam Alexander Dawson.
She was first married to Adam Alexander Dawson, and secondly to film director Jack Lee.