Biography

Paul Wilmshurst is an Emmy-winning, BAFTA-nominated director, specializing in high-end TV drama, with a particular interest in challenging or provocative stories, and a background in documentary film-making. Most recently he has directed three episodes of the hit international thriller Day of the Jackal, starring Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch and Ursula Corberó. He has also directed on a number of popular drama series including Belgravia - The Next Chapter, Criminal Record, The Last Kingdom, Jamestown, Indian Summers, Doctor Who, Strike Back, Da Vinci's Demons, Combat Kids, Law and Order UK and Silent Witness. He has written and directed award-winning one-off projects Hiroshima, Runaway and Forgiven, as well as making a variety of documentaries about gambling, politics, psychology, crime and history, including Mob Law, The Gambler and White Tribe. He sometimes works as a consultant for documentary projects. He also has a number of film projects in development. He lives in North London, when he is not away working.
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Studied English Literature at Churchill College, Cambridge; then journalism at City University in London. Have worked in television ever since. First news, later documentary, now drama. Highlights: writing and directing films about child abuse, runaways and Hiroshima; also alcoholism, drug dealing, gambling; working with Germaine Greer, Frank Skinner and Darcus Howe; hanging out on a US aircraft carrier, meeting the Las Vegas mafia, rolling with the Dice Man, climbing the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge; filming Doctor Who in a Lanzarote volcano, Strike Back in Cape Town and Zagreb, a biblical epic in Morocco, the finale of Indian Summers in Penang and - in Budapest - seventeenth century Jamestown colonisers, an ice battle for The Last Kingdom and - most recently - billionaires, spies and assassins in The Day of the Jackal.
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TV and film work has taken Paul to Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Peru, Mexico, Morocco, Israel, Germany, Austria, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Kosovo, Croatia, Slovakia, Czech Republic and the USA (filming in California, New York, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Mississippi, Tennessee, Lousiana, Florida, Washington DC and Illinois).