Bharat Nalluri is a film and television director, who came
to the fore directing the pilot episodes of Spooks (also known as MI-5), Life
on Mars, and Hustle (which he also helped to conceive) all for transmission on
BBC One.
Spooks won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series. Life on Mars
gave Nalluri a BAFTA-nomination for Directing, it went on to win the
International Emmy for Best Drama Series. Hustle garnered Nalluri a Director's
Guild of Great Britain nomination for Best Director.
Nalluri was born in a small village near Repalle, AP, India. He moved to England at an early age
with his family and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he attended the Royal
Grammar School, Newcastle. He has an MA in Film from The Northern School of
Film and Television.
He is married to journalist Kylie Morris, the Washington
correspondent for the UK's Channel 4 News.
Nalluri directed a miniseries for HBO called Tsunami: The
Aftermath, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. This two-part drama
starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okenedo, Tim Roth, Hugh Bonneville and Toni
Collette, told the story of the tragic events that occurred in Thailand in
December 2004. Ejiofor and Okenedo garnered NAACP nominations for best
supporting actor and best actress, which Okenedo went on to win. Toni Collette
was nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actress.
In 2014, he directed the pilot for Emmy nominated TV series
The 100 for Warner Bros and The CW. It is currently in its 6th season.
In addition to his television work Nalluri has worked
extensively in film. In 2007, Nalluri directed the feature film Miss Pettigrew
Lives for a Day starring Amy Adams and Frances McDormand which had a successful
theatrical release in the U.S. In 2014 he returned to Spooks (aka MI-5), which
had by this time finished its ten season run, to direct the feature film
spin-off Spooks: The Greater Good. It starred Kit Harington. His latest film is
The Man Who Invented Christmas, starring Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer and
Jonathan Pryce and was released by Bleecker Street in November 2017.
Director;
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
The Crow: Salvation (2000)
Killing Time (1998)
Downtime (1997)
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