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David Farr

Writer, Producer, Director, Actor, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn October 29, 1969 (56 years)
David Farr (born 29 October 1969) is a British writer, theatrical director and Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Farr was brought up in Surrey and educated in Guildford and the University of Cambridge (English Literature double first). Farr began directing theatre at University and won the Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1991 with Slight Possession starring Rachel Weisz. His professional directorial debut came at The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill in 1995 (age25) under Stephen Daldry. He was also Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic from 2002 to 2005 and Lyric Hammersmith from 2005 to 2009. In 2009 he joined Royal Shakespeare Company as Associate Director. He wrote regularly for Spooks for the BBC and is a film writer having co-written the Joe Wright film Hanna, released in 2011. Farr's adaptation of John le Carré's novel The Night Manager, was aired in 2016 on BBC1.

Known For

  • Hanna
  • The Night Manager
  • Hanna
  • The Ones Below
  • Killing Heydrich
  • Troy: Fall of a City
  • Spooks
  • McMafia
  • Electric Dreams (2017)
  • The Night Manager (IN)
  • Outcasts
  • The Midwich Cuckoos

David Farr Filmography

2022
2019
Hanna (TV Series)
2018
2018
McMafia (TV Series)
2017
2017
Killing Heydrich · as Screenplay
2016
The Night Manager (TV Series)
2015
2011
Hanna · as Screenplay
2010
Outcasts (TV Series)
2002
Spooks (TV Series)

2023
Trapping · as Executive Producer
2023
The Night Manager (IN) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2022
The Midwich Cuckoos (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2019
Hanna (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2018
Troy: Fall of a City (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2016
The Night Manager (TV Series) · as Executive Producer

2019
Hanna (TV Series)
2017
2015

2000
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz · as Hyde Park Nutter

2016
The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee

2023
The Night Manager (IN) (TV Series) · as Based On A Mini-Series By

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