Coky Giedroyc
Mary-Rose Helen "Coky" Giedroyć is a BAFTA-nominated English director.
Works
A Thousand Blows
Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.
Release Date:2025-02-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:12
Greatest Days
Based on the Take That musical, five best friends have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later, their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their beloved band, to relight their friendship and discover that maybe their greatest days are ahead of them.
Release Date:2023-06-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:26
How to Build a Girl
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
Release Date:2020-09-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:61
Seven Seconds
Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
Release Date:2018-02-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:127
Gypsy
The journey of Jean Holloway – a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives.
Release Date:2017-06-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:189
Harlots
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
Release Date:2017-03-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:165
The Sound of Music Live!
The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.
Release Date:2015-12-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:13
Penny Dreadful
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
Release Date:2014-05-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1377
What Remains
When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.
Release Date:2013-08-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:56
Hemlock Grove
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.
Release Date:2013-04-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:507
Spies of Warsaw
A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. A classic tale of spying, intrigue, and romance, based on the novels of Alan Furst and adapted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Release Date:2013-01-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:37
The Killing
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
Release Date:2011-04-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:767
The Nativity
Drama revealing the human story beneath the classic biblical tale, from the courtship of Mary and Joseph in Nazareth to the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem stable.
Release Date:2010-12-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:5
Sherlock
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Release Date:2010-07-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:5623
Wuthering Heights
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Release Date:2009-08-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:82
Oliver Twist
Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver dares to ask for more gruel, he finds himself cast out and forced to make his own way in the world...
Release Date:2007-12-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:82
Fear of Fanny
The bizarre tale of Fanny Cradock, Britain's famous and maligned TV chef from 50s to the 70s.
Release Date:2006-10-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
The Virgin Queen
The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.
Release Date:2006-01-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:30
Blackpool
Ripley Holden is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art amusement arcade. The opening extravaganza is overshadowed by the find of a dead body on the premises. DI Carlisle is called in and quickly finds he has more on his mind than murder, when he falls in love with Ripley's long-suffering wife.
Release Date:2004-11-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:24
Carrie's War
Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.
Release Date:2004-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:9
Women Talking Dirty
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Release Date:2001-12-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:18
Murder in Mind
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
Release Date:2001-04-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:9
Stella Does Tricks
A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
Release Date:1997-11-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:18
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire and why his theatrical innovations are still staples of the contemporary theatre.
Release Date:1995-09-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Take That's Greatest Days: 30 Years in the Making
Peek behind the scenes of Take That's new film Greatest Days about the band's army of fans. Hear from filmmakers, celebs and the band about why this vital story had to be told.
Character:Herself
Arthouse
Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.
Release Date:1997-10-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1