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Philippa Lowthorpe

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Philippa Lowthorpe
Philippa Lowthorpe is a three times Bafta winning TV and Film Director.

She became the first woman to win a Bafta for Best Director at the Bafta Television Awards in 2013. She was awarded her second directing BAFTA in 2018 for Three Girls, the highly acclaimed and multi award-winning TV Series which won 5 Baftas in total.

She was lead director of the first series of "Call The Midwife", which became an immediate hit, gaining the highest viewing figures of any BBC show for the previous 10 years.

Philippa was born in Yorkshire and grew up in Lincolnshire. She began as a documentary maker before moving into drama.

She is known for The Third Day (2020), Misbehaviour (2020), The Crown (2017), Three Girls ( 2017)
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Philippa Lowthorpe wins Bafta for Best Director
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Three Girls
Director Philippa Lowthorpe, editor Una ni Donghaile, exec producer Susan Hogg, water Nicole Taylor - the team behind There Girls at WFTV awards
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The Third Day
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Jude Law, Emily Watson, Naomie Harris, and Katherine Waterston in The Third Day (2020)
The Third Day
6.4
TV Series
  • Director
Greg Kinnear, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans, Keira Knightley, Lesley Manville, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Jessie Buckley in Misbehaviour (2020)
Misbehaviour
6.3
  • Director
  • 2020
Molly Windsor, Ria Zmitrowicz, and Liv Hill in Three Girls (2017)
Three Girls
8.1
TV Mini Series
  • Director
Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, and Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown (2016)
The Crown
8.6
TV Series
  • Director

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Director

  • Willow (2022)
    Willow
  • Jude Law, Emily Watson, Naomie Harris, and Katherine Waterston in The Third Day (2020)
    The Third Day
  • Greg Kinnear, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans, Keira Knightley, Lesley Manville, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Jessie Buckley in Misbehaviour (2020)
    Misbehaviour
  • Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, and Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown (2016)
    The Crown
  • Molly Windsor, Ria Zmitrowicz, and Liv Hill in Three Girls (2017)
    Three Girls
  • Swallows and Amazons (2016)
    Swallows and Amazons
  • Samantha Morton in Cider with Rosie (2015)
    Cider with Rosie
  • Jamaica Inn (2014)
    Jamaica Inn
  • Bryony Hannah, Helen George, and Jessica Raine in Call the Midwife (2012)
    Call the Midwife
  • Natalie Press in Five Daughters (2010)
    Five Daughters
  • Sex, the City and Me (2007)
    Sex, the City and Me
  • James Purefoy in Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006)
    Beau Brummell: This Charming Man
  • Natascha McElhone and Jodhi May in The Other Boleyn Girl (2003)
    The Other Boleyn Girl
  • A Childhood
  • The Gorals Do Bristol

Producer

  • Jude Law, Emily Watson, Naomie Harris, and Katherine Waterston in The Third Day (2020)
    The Third Day
  • A Childhood
  • Eight Hours from Paris
  • A Skirt Through History (1994)
    A Skirt Through History
  • Three Salons at the Seaside
  • Enniskillen: Splendid Hearts
  • Forty Minutes (1981)
    Forty Minutes

Writer

  • Sex, the City and Me (2007)
    Sex, the City and Me
  • Natascha McElhone and Jodhi May in The Other Boleyn Girl (2003)
    The Other Boleyn Girl
  • Eight Hours from Paris
  • A Skirt Through History (1994)
    A Skirt Through History

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    Philippa Lowthorpe is the first woman to be awarded a Bafta for Best Director: Fiction in the Bafta Television Craft Awards. Awarded the Bafta in 2013, she is still the only woman to have ever won.

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