Philippa Lowthorpe

• Name — Philippa Lowthorpe • Birthplace — Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England • Occupation — * Film director • screenwriter • Alma Mater — St. Hilda's College, Oxford • Years Active — 1992–present

Philippa Lowthorpe was born in a village near Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 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.

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. 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. 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. In 2006 she directed Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006). She was lead director on the very first series of Call the Midwife. She also directed the first Call the Midwife Christmas Special (2013), for which she won a British Academy Television Craft Award in 2013. A 2013 interview with her appears on the BAFTA website. She also received a British Film Institute award in 2013. She directed Jamaica Inn in 2014. Her first feature film, Swallows and Amazons (2016), 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. The BBC mini-series Three Girls (2017), about the Rochdale young child exploitation, reunited her with executive producer Susan Hogg and producer Simon Lewis, with whom she had previously worked on 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 voted Best Mini Series at the BAFTA TV Awards (shared with Nicole Taylor, Susan Hogg, and Simon Lewis). In October 2018 Three Girls a won the Prix Italia (again shared with Nicole Taylor, Susan Hogg and Simon Lewis). In 2025 Lowthorpe directed the factual drama miniseries based on the imprisonment of a British national in Iran, Prisoner 951.

Documentary series • Year — Title — Director — Writer — Producer — Notes • 1992 — BBC 40 Minutes — Episode "Not at Their Age" • 1994 — A Skirt Through History — Episodes "The Experiment" and "A Marriage" TV movies • Year — Title — Director — Writer — Producer • 1992 — Enniskillen: Splendid Hearts • 1995 — Remember the Family • 1997 — Eight Hours from Paris • 2000 — A Childhood • 2003 — The Other Boleyn Girl • 2006 — Beau Brummell: This Charming Man • 2007 — Sex, the City and Me • 2015 — Cider with Rosie Miniseries • Year — Title — Director — Executive Producer — Notes • 2010 — Five Daughters • 2014 — Jamaica Inn • 2017 — Three Girls • 2020 — The Third Day — 3 episodes • 2025 — Prisoner 951 TV series • Year — Title — Notes • 2013-2014 — Call the Midwife — 5 episodes • 2017 — The Crown — Episodes "Marionettes" and "Vergangenheit" • 2022 — Willow — Episodes "Wildwood" and "Prisoners of Skellin"

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• Year — Association — Category — Work — Result — Ref. Reference • 1995 — RTS Programme Awards — Best Single Documentary — Three Salons at the Seaside • 2011 — RTS Programme Awards - West of England — Best Television Drama — Five Daughters • Best Director • RTS Programme Awards — Best Drama Serial — Five Daughters • 2013 — British Academy Television Craft Awards — Best Director - Fiction / Entertainment — Call the Midwife • British Academy Television Awards — Radio Times Audience Award • Television and Radio Industries Club Awards — HD Drama Programme of the Year • Christopher Award — Television & Cable • RTS Programme Awards - West of England — Best Director Drama — Call the Midwife • RTS Programme Awards — Best Drama Series — Call the Midwife] • 2017 — Seattle International Film Festival — Youth Jury Award for Best Films4Families Feature — Swallows and Amazons • RTS Programme Awards - West of England — Best Director, Drama • New York International Children's Film Festival — Grand Prize Feature • 2017 — WFTV Awards — The Deluxe Director Award — Herself • Festival de la Fiction TV Awards — Jury Special Prize for European Fiction — Three Girls • 2018 — British Academy Television Craft Awards — Best Director: Fiction — Three Girls • British Academy Television Awards — Best Mini-Series • Broadcasting Press Guild Awards — Best Single Drama/Mini-series • UK Broadcast Awards — Best Drama Series or Serial • RTS Programme Awards - West of England — Best Television Drama — Three Girls • Best Director Drama • RTS Programme Awards — Best Mini-Series — Three Girls • Notes: • 1. callmid Call the Midwife — with Heidi Thomas (writer), Hugh Warren (producer), and Pippa Harris (executive producer) •... callmid — with Heidi Thomas (writer) and Pippa Harris (executive producer) • 2. threeg1 Three Girls — with Nicole Taylor (writer), Simon Lewis (producer), and Susan Hogg (executive producer) • 3. swallows Swallows and Amazons — with Andrea Gibb • 4. five Five Daughters — with Stephen Butchard and Simon Lewis

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