S.J. Clarkson

S. J. Clarkson (born 1974) is a British television and film director, working in both the UK and US. Her credits include Life On Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Hustle, Mistresses, Heroes, Dexter, House, Toast, Vinyl, Love Nina, Jessica Jones and Collateral.

Works

5.4

Madame Web

Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.

Release Date:2024-02-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2109

Anatomy of a Scandal
7.0

Anatomy of a Scandal

Sophie's privileged life as the wife of powerful politician James unravels when scandalous secrets surface — and he stands accused of a shocking crime.

Release Date:2022-04-15

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:192

Made for Love
6.8

Made for Love

Thirty-something Hazel Green tries to escape a suffocating marriage — until she realizes her tech billionaire husband has implanted a revolutionary tracking device, the Made for Love, in her brain.

Release Date:2021-04-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:167

Succession
8.3

Succession

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.

Release Date:2018-06-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1269

Collateral
6.4

Collateral

When a pizza delivery driver is shot dead in south London, a tenacious detective goes after the people traffickers behind his murder and unravels a conspiracy that goes to the top.

Release Date:2018-02-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:182

Marvel's The Defenders
7.1

Marvel's The Defenders

Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.

Release Date:2017-08-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1465

Love, Nina
5.8

Love, Nina

Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the editor of a London literary review.

Release Date:2016-05-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:15

Vinyl
7.0

Vinyl

In 1970s New York, jaded record exec Richie Finestra tries to resurrect his failing label and fractured personal life while keeping his finger on the pulse of the city's new sound.

Release Date:2016-02-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:215

Marvel's Jessica Jones
7.5

Marvel's Jessica Jones

After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

Release Date:2015-11-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2349

Dig
6.2

Dig

When FBI Agent Peter Connelly, recently stationed in Jerusalem, begins investigating the murder of a young American, he realizes that he’s uncovered an ancient international conspiracy that threatens to change the course of human history. Certain that the dangerous prophecy is nearing fruition, Peter must race against the clock to unravel its mystery. From a remote farm in Norway, to an enigmatic compound in New Mexico, to the serpentine tunnels of Jerusalem, he searches for the truth, the revelation of which will shake the world's beliefs to its very core.

Release Date:2015-03-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:78

TURN: Washington's Spies
7.1

TURN: Washington's Spies

The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

Release Date:2014-04-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:219

Orange Is the New Black
7.7

Orange Is the New Black

A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.

Release Date:2013-07-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2555

The Bridge
6.6

The Bridge

A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.

Release Date:2013-07-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:169

Bates Motel
8.1

Bates Motel

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.

Release Date:2013-03-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1612

Banshee
8.0

Banshee

Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.

Release Date:2013-01-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1206

Smash
6.5

Smash

A songwriting duo tries to create a hit with a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.

Release Date:2012-02-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:72

6.6

Toast

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.

Release Date:2010-12-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:242

Whitechapel
7.2

Whitechapel

Detective Inspector Chandler investigates copycat killers in London's East End.

Release Date:2009-02-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:113

Mistresses
6.0

Mistresses

Follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of marital and extramarital relationships.

Release Date:2008-01-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:19

The End of 'Life on Mars'

A documentary about the conclusion of Life on Mars

Release Date:2007-04-16

Character:Self

Heroes
7.5

Heroes

Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.

Release Date:2006-09-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2305

Life on Mars
7.8

Life on Mars

A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.

Release Date:2006-01-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:278

House
8.6

House

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

Release Date:2004-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:6782

Hustle
7.6

Hustle

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

Release Date:2004-02-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:165

Footballers' Wives
5.3

Footballers' Wives

Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006. The show began with a multi-lateral focus on a variety of different types of relationships explored; however, from the third series onward, the primary focus was on a complex love triangle between Tanya Turner, Amber Gates and Conrad Gates.

Release Date:2002-01-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:16

Bad Girls
7.5

Bad Girls

Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series was broadcast in 17 countries and was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road. It is set in the fictional women's prison of Larkhall, and features a mixture of serious and light storylines focusing on the prisoners and staff of G Wing. From 2010, the UK broadcast rights were bought by CBS Drama, and is repeated regularly – as of September 2012, the channel is re-running the series again in a late-night time slot.

Release Date:1999-06-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:34

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