H IS FOR HAWK

Philippa Lowthorpe

Yorkshire, United Kingdom, 1961) is a three-time BAFTA winner and the first female director ever to win a BAFTA for directing TV fiction. She directed the critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning mini-series Three Girls, which won five BAFTA Awards including Best Mini-Series and Lowthorpe’s second BAFTA for directing in 2019. She directed Claire Foy in The Crown season two and The Third Day: Winter for HBO/Plan B, starring Naomie Harris and Jude Law. Her recent work includes the feature film Misbehaviour for Pathé/BFI/BBC Films, starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Jessie Buckley. Set in 1970, it tells the true story of the first Black woman to win Miss World and the young feminists who disrupted the event. She was the lead director of the first series and feature-length special of the international hit Call the Midwife, for which she won her first directing BAFTA in 2013. She began her career as a documentary filmmaker: one of her early films, Three Salons at the Seaside, was recently selected by the Grierson Trust as one of the “50 Must See Documentaries of the Last 50 Years”.

FILMOGRAFIA

Forty Minutes (1 ep, serie tv, 1992), Enniskillen: Splendid Hearts (film tv, 1992), A Skirt Through History (2 ep, serie tv, 1994), Three Salons at the Seaside (film tv, 1994), The Spy Who Caught a Cold (cm, 1995), Remember the Family (film tv, 1995), Eight Horus from Paris (film tv, 1997), The Gorals Do Bristol (cm tv, 1999), A Childhood (film tv, 2000), The Other Boylen Girl (film tv, 2003), Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (film tv, 2006), Sex, the City and Me (film tv, 2007), Five Daughters (3 ep, serie tv, 2010), Call the Midwife (L’amore e la vita – Call the Midwife, 5 ep, serie tv, 2012-2013), Jamaica Inn (3 ep, serie tv, 2014), Cider with Rosie (film tv, 2015), Swallows and Amazons (2016), Three Girls (3 ep, serie tv, 2017), The Crown (2 ep, serie tv, 2017), Il concorso (2020), The Third Day (3 ep, serie tv, 2020), Misbehaviour (Il concorso, 2020), Willow (Willow – La serie, 2 ep, serie tv, 2022), H Is for Hawk (2025).