Philippa Lowthorpe

Philippa Lowthorpe
Lowthorpe in 2016
Born	(1961-12-27) 27 December 1961 (age 63) Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Occupations	Film director screenwriter
Years active	1992–present

Philippa Lowthorpe (born 27 December 1961) ^[1] is an English film and television director. She was awarded the Deluxe Director Award at the WFTV Film and Television Awards for the miniseries Three Girls . ^[2] She recently directed episodes of the second season of The Crown and the 2020 film Misbehaviour .

Early life

Lowthorpe was born in a village near Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, ^{[3] [4]} and grew up in Nettleham, Lincolnshire. She attended De Aston School in Market Rasen and then went to St Hilda's College, Oxford to study Classics. ^[5] Lowthorpe moved to Bristol to make documentaries for BBC Bristol, including Three Salons at the Seaside and A Skirt Through History about women's untold stories.

Career

Lowthorpe started out as a director in documentaries. Her award-winning documentaries led her to be invited to write and direct her first drama Eight Hours from Paris (1997) for George Faber, a film for Screen Two in which real people played themselves, alongside professional actors. ^[5] This was followed by The Other Boleyn Girl (2003), adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name by Philippa Gregory, for BBC films, shown on BBC 2.

She was lead director on the very first series of Call the Midwife . Her opening episode gained the highest audience for any debut of a drama in the past decade. She also directed the first Call the Midwife Christmas Special (2013), for which she won a BAFTA for directing. She is the only woman ever to have won this award.

Other directing credits include the multi-award-winning Five Daughters (2010), Jamaica Inn (2014), Cider with Rosie (2015), and the feature film Swallows and Amazons (2016) for BFI/Studio Canal/BBC films.

Her credits include Jamaica Inn , Call the Midwife , for which she won a British Academy Television Craft Award in 2013, ^[6] Five Daughters, Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), and The Other Boleyn Girl (2003). A 2013 interview with her appears on the BAFTA website, ^[7] and she received a British Film Institute award in 2013. ^[8] Her very first feature film Swallows and Amazons won Grand Prize Feature at New York International Children's Film Festival, and the Youth Jury Award for Best Films4Families Feature at Seattle International Film Festival in 2017. ^{[9] [10] [11]}

Lowthorpe's recent work, the BBC mini-series Three Girls (2017) about the Rochdale young child exploitation, reunited her with Executive Producer Susan Hogg and Producer Simon Lewis who she had previously worked with on the award-winning Five Daughters. The series was awarded by BAFTA for best directing in fiction, with writer Nicole Taylor recognised for best writing in a drama series, and Úna Ní Dhonghaíle for best editing in fiction, in 2018. In May 2018 "Three Girls" was also voted Best Mini Series at the BAFTA TV Awards (shared with Nicole Taylor, Susan Hogg and Simon Lewis). In October 2018 "Three Girls" also won the Prix Italia (again shared with Nicole Taylor, Susan Hogg and Simon Lewis).

Filmography

Film and television

DR Director —WR Writer —OT Other

Year	Title	DR	WR	OT	Notes
1992	BBC 40 Minutes				Documentary series; [12] Episode: "Not at Their Age"
1994	Three Salons at the Seaside				Documentary; [13] also producer
1994	A Skirt Through History				Documentary series; [14] also producer; Episodes: "The Experiment", "A Marriage"
1997	Eight Hours from Paris				Television film for Screen Two; also producer
2003	The Other Boleyn Girl				Television film
2006	Beau Brummell: This Charming Man				Television film
2007	Sex, the City and Me				Television film [15]
2010	Five Daughters				Miniseries; all 3 parts
2013-2014	Call the Midwife				5 episodes
2014	Jamaica Inn				Miniseries; all 3 parts
2015	Cider with Rosie				Television film [16]
2016	Swallows and Amazons
2017	Three Girls				Miniseries; all 3 parts
2017	The Crown				Episodes: "Marionettes", "Vergangenheit"
2020	Misbehaviour
2022	Willow		No	No
TBA	H Is for Hawk

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
1995	RTS Programme Awards	Best Single Documentary	Three Salons at the Seaside	Won	[17]
2011	RTS Programme Awards - West of England	Best Television Drama	Five Daughters	Nominated [4a]	[18]
		Best Director		Won
	RTS Programme Awards	Best Drama Serial	Five Daughters	Won [4a]	[19]
2013	British Academy Television Craft Awards	Best Director - Fiction / Entertainment	Call the Midwife	Won
	British Academy Television Awards	Radio Times Audience Award		Nominated [1a]
	Television and Radio Industries Club Awards	HD Drama Programme of the Year		Won [1a]	[20]
	Christopher Award	Television & Cable		Won [1b]	[21]
	RTS Programme Awards - West of England	Best Director Drama	Call the Midwife	Won	[22]
	RTS Programme Awards	Best Drama Series	Call the Midwife]	Nominated [1a]	[23]
2017	Seattle International Film Festival	Youth Jury Award for Best Films4Families Feature	Swallows and Amazons	Won [3a]	[24]
	RTS Programme Awards - West of England	Best Director, Drama		Nominated	[25]
	New York International Children's Film Festival	Grand Prize Feature		Won [3a]	[26]
2017	WFTV Awards	The Deluxe Director Award	Herself	Won	[27]
	Festival de la Fiction TV Awards  [ fr ]	Jury Special Prize for European Fiction  [ fr ]	Three Girls	Won [2a]
2018	British Academy Television Craft Awards	Best Director: Fiction	Three Girls	Won
	British Academy Television Awards	Best Mini-Series		Nominated [2a]
	Broadcasting Press Guild Awards	Best Single Drama/Mini-series		Won [2a]	[28]
	UK Broadcast Awards	Best Drama Series or Serial		Won [2a]	[29]
	RTS Programme Awards - West of England	Best Television Drama	Three Girls	Won [2a]	[30]
		Best Director Drama		Won
	RTS Programme Awards	Best Mini-Series	Three Girls	Won [2a]	[31]

Notes

1. ^1aCall the Midwife— with Heidi Thomas (writer), Hugh Warren (producer), and Pippa Harris (executive producer)

... ^1b— with Heidi Thomas (writer) and Pippa Harris (executive producer)

2. ^2aThree Girls— with Nicole Taylor (writer), Simon Lewis (producer), and Susan Hogg (executive producer)

3. ^3aSwallows and Amazons— with Andrea Gibb

4. ^4aFive Daughters— with Stephen Butchard and Simon Lewis

Honours

• Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts in recognition of Lowthorpe's contribution to film and television, UWE Bristol. ^[5]

References

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3. "UWE Bristol awards honorary degree to Philippa Lowthorpe - UWE Bristol: News Releases". info.uwe.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
4. "Interview: Acting for Crewe and camera" . The Independent. 13 November 1997. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
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12. "40 Minutes". BBC Genome. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
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15. "BBC Two - Sex, the City and Me". BBC. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
16. "BBC Two - Cider with Rosie". BBC. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
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21. Rossi, Tony (9 April 2013). "The 2013 Christopher Award Winners for TV, Film and Books Are…". Patheos. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
22. "RTS West of England Awards 2013". UK RTS. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
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24. "SIFF 2017 Award Winners". SIFF. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
25. "RTS West of England Awards 2017". UK RTS. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
26. Jennifer Wolfe (20 January 2017). "New York Int'l Children's Film Festival Announces Complete 2017 Slate". AWN. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
27. "Meet the 2017 Women in Film and Television Award Winners". WFTV. 2 December 2017. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
28. "BPG Awards 2018". Broadcasting Press Guild Association . 16 May 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
29. "Winners 2018". The Broadcast Awards. February 2019. Archived from the original on 19 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
30. Bristol (18 March 2018). "RTS West of England Awards - winners announced!". UK RTS. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
31. "RTS Programme Awards 2018, In Partnership with Audio Network". UK RTS. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

External links

• Philippa Lowthorpe at IMDb
• Philippa Lowthorpe — BFI
• Philippa Lowthorpe on Twitter