Elliot Hegarty | |
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Born | 1971 (age 53–54) London, England, UK |
Occupation(s) | Film director, television director |
Years active | 1996–present |
Elliot Hegarty is a film and television director working in Britain and the United States.
His film and TV credits include Rivals starring David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Danny Dyer and Katherine Parkinson for Disney+, Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis for Apple TV which won 7 Emmys in 2021, [1] the highly-acclaimed Cheaters for BBC1, two film adaptations of David Walliams' books - The Midnight Gang with Alan Davies and Haydn Gwynne and Grandpa's Great Escape with Tom Courtenay and Jennifer Saunders. He also directed the first block of Season 3 of Trying for Apple TV, Lizzie and Sarah by Julia Davis, Lovesick on Netflix, Star Stories , The Kevin Bishop Show , FM , Moving Wallpaper , Great Night Out and Jack Whitehall's TV series - Bad Education . In the US Elliot has directed over 35 episodes of TV across a broad range of Network comedies such as Black-ish , The Real O'Neals , Mr. Sunshine , The Middle , Suburgatory, Selfie, Trophy Wife, Family Tools and Mixology.
His two feature film credits are The Bad Education Movie and the 2000 film County Kilburn starring Ciarán McMenamin, a film he also wrote. [2]
Elliot also directs commercials. The first three ads he directed were for Club 18–30, for which he won eight awards, including a Silver and two Bronzes at the British Television Advertising awards and a Bronze Lion at Cannes. [3] He was nominated as Best New Director at the British Television Advertising Craft awards in 2000 and selected for the prestigious New Directors' Showcase in Cannes 2001. [4] He has worked with such clients as Guinness, MFI, KFC, Toyota, Npower, Enterprise, Hyundai and the Daily Telegraph.
He has been twice nominated for a BAFTA award - in 2008 [5] and again in 2018. [6] He won Best Comedy at the British Comedy Awards. [7]