Sarah Quintrell

Last updated

Sarah Quintrell (born in Lambeth, London) is a BAFTA nominated writer, producer and actress, best known for her work on The Power [1] (2023) and His Dark Materials. [2] (Season 2, co-writing alongside Jack Thorne). Sarah's writing debut was the multi-award winning single drama Ellen [3] (Channel 4, 2016), which she followed up with five-part crime drama The Trial: A Murder In The Family (Channel 4, 2017).

Contents

In 2017, Sarah was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. [4]

As an actor, Sarah has had an extensive career on stage as well as appearing in television such as Rillington Place (BBC), Call the Midwife (BBC) and Doctor Who (BBC).

Career

Quintrell's writing debut, Ellen, was broadcast on Channel 4. [5] Directed by Mahalia Belo and starring Jessica Barden, Yasmin Monet Prince, Jaime Winstone, Joe Dempsie and Charlie Creed-Miles. Ellen won the Broadcast Television Award Best Single Drama, Writers' Guild Great Britain Best Short Form Drama, BAFTA Cymru Feature/Television Film and the Prix Italia TV Drama. Quintrell was nominated for the BAFTA Breakthrough Talent Award at the 2017 BAFTA Craft Awards.

The Trial: A Murder In The Family was broadcast on Channel 4 Directed by Kath Mattock and Nick Holt, starring Michael Gould, Emma Lowndes and Laura Elphinstone. In 2018 it was nominated for Best Original Programme at the Broadcast Awards. Sarah wrote on Season 2 of His Dark Materials for BBC/HBO, starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson and Lin-Manuel Miranda. She went on to develop, write and co-executive produce The Power (Amazon Prime, 2023), starring Ria Zmitrowicz, Halle Bush, Eddie Marsan, Toheeb Jimoh, Heather Agyepong, Zrinka Cvitesic, John Leguizamo and Toni Colette.

Sarah had an extensive career on stage and was the original Bobbie in Mike Kenny's The Railway Children at York Theatre Royal. [6] She transferred with the production to London Waterloo Station, where it won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment (2011). [7] She has also played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (2005). [8] [9]

Other theatre includes As You Like It , Forty Years On and an assortment of new writing including AgeSexLocation, Bloodtide and playing Natalie in James Phillips's City Stories, which had a residency in 15 at St James Theatre, London, (now The Other Palace). She transferred with the production to 59East59 Theater in New York as part of Brits Off Broadway (2016) and reprised the role at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel, London, in 2018. [10]

Sarah Quintrell started her career playing Sinéad in the BBC TV sitcom Carrie and Barry . She has gone on to appear in Rillington Place (BBC), Call the Midwife (BBC), Doctor Who (BBC), Lewis (ITV), The Watcher (UFA), The Last Trace (UFA), The Marchioness Disaster (Granada Yorkshire), Doctors (BBC) and Island at War (Granada).

Awards

Related Research Articles

Kay Mellor was an English actress, scriptwriter, producer and director. She was known for creating television series such as Band of Gold, Fat Friends, and The Syndicate, as well as co-creating CITV's children's drama Children's Ward (1989–2000).

Carnival Film & Television Limited, trading as Carnival Films, is a British production company based in London, UK, founded in 1978. It has produced television series for all the major UK networks including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky, as well as international broadcasters including PBS, A&E, HBO and NBC. Productions include single dramas, long-running television dramas, feature films, and stage productions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">World Productions</span> Film production company

World Productions Limited is a British television production company, founded on 20 March 1990 by acclaimed producer Tony Garnett, and owned by ITV plc following a takeover in 2017.

Michael Bartlett is an English playwright and screenwriter for film and TV series. His 2015 psychological thriller TV series, Doctor Foster, starring Suranne Jones, won the New Drama award from National Television Awards. Bartlett also won Best Writer from the Broadcast Press Guild Awards. A BBC TV Film of Bartlett's play King Charles III was broadcast in May 2017 and while critically acclaimed, generated some controversy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tony Grounds</span> British playwright and screenwriter

Tony Grounds is a British playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively in television. Described by The Independent as "the best TV writer of his generation", Grounds has written for all four of Britain's main channels.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Kosminsky</span> British writer, director and producer (born 1956)

Peter Kosminsky is a British writer, director and producer. He has directed Hollywood movies such as White Oleander and television films like Warriors, The Government Inspector, The Promise, Wolf Hall and The State.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ruth Wilson</span> British actress

Ruth Wilson is an English actress. She has played the eponymous protagonist in Jane Eyre (2006), Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama Luther, Alison Lockhart in the Showtime drama The Affair (2014–2018), and the eponymous character in Mrs Wilson (2018). From 2019 to 2022, she portrayed Marisa Coulter in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials, and for this role she won the 2020 BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress. Her film credits include The Lone Ranger (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016), and Dark River (2017).

Helen Edmundson is a British playwright, screenwriter and producer. She has won awards and critical acclaim both for her original writing and for her adaptations of various literary classics for the stage and screen.

Jon Jones is a Welsh film and television writer and director working primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has directed numerous dramas for British and American television including the award-winning When I'm Sixty-Four, The Diary of Anne Frank, Blood Strangers, The Alan Clark Diaries, A Very Social Secretary, Northanger Abbey, Zen, Mr Selfridge and Going Postal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Studio Lambert</span> British TV production company

Studio Lambert is a British television production company based in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Los Angeles. It creates and produces scripted and unscripted programs for British and American broadcasters, cable networks and streaming platforms. It is part of All3Media, the global production group.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johnny Harris (actor)</span> English actor, screenwriter, producer and director

Johnny Harris is an English actor, screenwriter, producer and director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aneurin Barnard</span> Welsh actor

Aneurin Barnard is a Welsh actor. He is known for playing Davey in Hunky Dory, Claude in The Truth About Emanuel, Bobby Willis in Cilla, Tim in Thirteen, King Richard III in The White Queen, William in Dead in a Week or Your Money Back, Gibson in Dunkirk, and Boris Pavlikovsky in The Goldfinch.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Molly Windsor</span> British actress

Molly Windsor is an English actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2009 Channel 4 television film The Unloved, and she has appeared in Oranges and Sunshine (2010) and The Runaways (2019). She is best known for her performance in the 2017 BBC miniseries Three Girls, for which she won the 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress; in 2017, she was also named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit.

Levi David Addai is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning Damilola, Our Loved Boy, the critically acclaimed Youngers and his stage plays 93.2FM and Oxford Street.

Derek Wax is a British television executive producer. His work includes The Rig, The Sixth Commandment, Sex Traffic, Occupation, The Hour,Troy: Fall of a City,Capital,Humans, Lip Service, Tsunami: The Aftermath and From There to Here. He was a producer at Granada TV from 2001 to 2005 and an Executive Producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017.

Two Brothers Pictures is a British television production company founded in 2014 by brothers Harry and Jack Williams. The company launched with the BBC One series The Missing. The show was nominated for 2 Golden Globe Awards, 4 BAFTAs and 2 Emmys as well as winning two Nymph d'Ors, Bulldog, and BPG awards. The Missing returned in 2016 for a second series airing on BBC One and Starz.

The Free Association, or The FA, is an improvised comedy theatre and school, based in London. It is currently the largest provider of improvisation training in the UK.

References

  1. ↑ "The Power is a thrilling allegory about the harm of a patriarchal society – review". The Independent. 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  2. ↑ Barr, Sabrina (2020-11-22). "His Dark Materials fans praise 'terrific' unexpected meeting of two characters". Metro. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  3. ↑ "Ellen: a searing piece of drama with a brutal final punch". Radio Times. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  4. ↑ "BAFTA Announces Breakthrough Brits of 2017". BAFTA. October 25, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Jessica Barden, Joe Dempsie and Jaime Winstone star in Ellen - Channel 4 - Info - Press". www.channel4.com. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  6. ↑ "The Railway Children, National Railway Museum, York". The Guardian. 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  7. ↑ "Olivier Winners 2011". Olivier Awards. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  8. ↑ "Pygmalion, Theatre Royal, York". The Guardian. 2006-06-02. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  9. ↑ "On the road: Bad Girls: The Musical, Shadowmouth, Pygmalion - Telegraph". 2016-07-07. Archived from the original on 2016-07-07. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  10. ↑ Cavendish, Dominic. "On the road: Bad Girls: The Musical, Shadowmouth, Pygmalion". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  11. ↑ "Writers' Guild Award winners 2017". Writers' Guild of Great Britain. 2017-01-23. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  12. ↑ "Winners announced: 2017 British Academy Cymru Awards". www.bafta.org. 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  13. ↑ "Prix Italia 2017 Winners - Prix Italia 2018 ENG -".
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.