Wayne Yip

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Wayne Yip
Born
Wayne Che Yip

1981 (age 4243) [1]
Oxford, England [2]
Occupations
Years active2005–present

Wayne Che Yip (born 1981) is a British television director, most notably connected with Utopia , Doctor Who and Amazon Prime's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Fallout .

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Early life and education

Wayne was born in Oxford in 1981 and was educated at Dragon School, Abingdon School, D'Overbroeck's College and later studied at Banbury College [1] where he graduated in 2004 with a degree in graphic design. [3]

Career

Work with Alex Garcia Lopez

He developed an interest in filmmaking after working in the Phoenix Picturehouse in Jericho and came to prominence when he co-wrote and directed Happy Birthday Grandad with Alex Garcia Lopez, which won the 2007 Sixty Seconds of Fame BAFTA. [1] [4]

The pair then created the short films Samantha (2008), Be Lucky (2008) and Diego's Story (2009), [5] as well as the episode "Would Like To Meet" (2010) of the Channel 4 anthology series Coming Up. [6]

Following on from this, they went on to direct the first half of the fourth series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2011), starring Billie Piper, three episodes of the third series of Misfits and the second half of the first series of Dennis Kelly's Utopia (2013). [7]

Later work

In 2013, he came back to Misfits to direct the final episode of the show, this time without Garcia Lopez. In 2015, he directed four episodes of Tatau. He then directed two episodes of the series Class, "Detained" and "The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did". This was followed by the Doctor Who series 10 episodes "The Lie of the Land" and "Empress of Mars", and the 2019 New Year's Day special episode "Resolution". [8]

In March 2021, Amazon Prime Video announced that Yip would take over directing duties for four episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series, as well as serving as co-executive producer. [9] [10]

He has also directed on many major series in the United States including Salem, Preacher, Into the Badlands, Happy!, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency , Doom Patrol and Hunters, starring Al Pacino. [6]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleNotes
2010 Coming Up Episode: "Would Like To Meet"
2011 Secret Diary of a Call Girl 4 episodes
2011–2013 Misfits 4 episodes
2013 Utopia 3 episodes
2015 Tatau 4 episodes
2016 Salem Episode: "The Reckoning"
Class 2 episodes:
2017 Imposters 2 episodes:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 2 episodes:
Doctor Who 2 episodes:
2017–2018 Preacher 4 episodes
2017–2019 Happy! 4 episodes
2018 Cloak & Dagger Episode: "Colony Collapse"
2019 Doctor Who Episode: "Resolution"
Deadly Class Episode: "Kids of the Black Hole"
Into the Badlands 2 episodes
Doom Patrol Episode: "Frances Patrol"
Treadstone 2 episodes
2020 Hunters 2 episodes:
2021 The Wheel of Time 2 episodes:
2022 The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power 4 episodes:
2024 Fallout Episode: "The Beginning"

Short films

YearTitleNotes
2007Happy Birthday GranddadCo-written and directed with Alex Garcia Lopez
2008Samantha
Be Lucky
2009Diego's Story
2015Dark Clowns

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