Susanna White

Susanna White

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Born
1960
Awards
12 wins, 20 nominations

Susanna White is a BAFTA winning British film and television director. She attended Bromley High School and Oxford University before being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study on the MFA Program at UCLA. Her work ranges from the hard-hitting HBO mini-series Generation Kill about the US invasion…

Biography

Susanna White is a BAFTA winning British film and television director. She attended Bromley High School and Oxford University before being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study on the MFA Program at UCLA. Her work ranges from the hard-hitting HBO mini-series Generation Kill about the US invasion of Iraq and the John Le Carre thriller Our Kind of Traitor, to the CGI world of family film Nanny McPhee Returns with Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Dame Maggie Smith. She collaborated with Tom Stoppard on the mini-series Parades End (with Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and Adelaide Clemens) and brought Ruth Wilson to the screen in another Emmy nominated mini-series Jane Eyre. Her early work includes the award-winning documentaries Volvo City (about the Hasidic Jewish community of London's Stamford Hill) and Tell Me The Truth About Love about the poet WH Auden. Her first screen drama was about another poet, Philip Larkin, Love Again, starring Hugh Bonneville, Tara Fitzgerald and Eileen Atkins and was made for only £200,000. The film appears to be much bigger budget than it was thanks to heavy snow in London during shooting which masked non-period detail on the streets.

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Some GirlsSome Girls(1988)

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Nowhere BoyNowhere Boy(2009)

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Susanna White in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)Sam Rockwell, Michael Greyeyes, Susanna White, and Jessica ChastainSusanna White and Jessica ChastainRebecca Hall, Susanna White, and Adelaide Clemens at an event for Parade's End (2012)Lindsay Doran and Susanna White in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)Michael Greyeyes, Steven Knight, Susanna White, and Jessica Chastain at an event for Woman Walks Ahead (2017)