MENU

Dearbhla Walsh

Film + TV Director
Claim Profile

DIRECTORS

Contact
Agent
Filmography
  • Bad Sisters Season 2
    2024 — TV Series 5 ×
  • Bad Sisters Season 2
    2024 — TV Series 2 ×
  • Bad Sisters Season 2
    2024 — TV Series 1 ×
  • Sunny
    2024 — TV Series 8 ×
  • Sunny
    2024 — TV Series 5 ×
  • Bad Sisters Season 1
    2022 — TV Series 3 ×
  • Bad Sisters Season 1
    2022 — TV Series 2 ×
  • Bad Sisters Season 1
    2022 — TV Series 1 ×
  • Shining Vale
    2022 — TV Series 1 ×
  • Fargo
    2017-2020 — TV Series 4 × — 56 mins
  • Tales From the Loop
    2020 — TV Series 1 × — 57 mins
  • The Handmaid's Tale
    2019 — TV Series 1 × — 55 mins
  • Traitors
    2019 — TV Series 3 × — 60 mins
  • The Punisher
    2017 — TV Series 1 × — 55 mins
  • I'm Roger Casement
    2016 — Short Film — 12 mins
  • The Collection
    2016–2017 — TV Series 4 × — 61 mins
  • Hozier's "Cherry Wine"
    2016 — Music Video — 4 mins
  • Esio Trot
    2015 — TV Film — 88 mins
  • Penny Dreadful
    2013–2014 — TV Series 2 × — 59 mins
  • Borgia
    2011-2013 — TV Series 4 × — 58 mins
  • Public Enemies
    2011 — TV Mini-Series 3 × — 60 mins
  • The Silence
    2010 — TV Mini-Series 4 × — 58 mins
  • The Tudors
    2008-2010 — TV Series 5 × — 53 mins
  • Little Dorrit
    2008 — TV Series 5 × — 30 mins
  • Talk To Me
    2007 — TV Series
  • Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
    2006 — TV Film — 120 mins
  • Hide and Seek
    2006 — TV Series 3 ×
  • Funland
    2005 — TV Mini-Series 3 ×
  • Shamless
    2004-2005 — TV Series 7 × — 49 mins
  • Wild Trials
    2004 — TV Series Documentary — 30 mins
  • Imagining Ulysses
    2004 — Documentary — 90 mins
  • The Big Bow Wow
    2004 — TV Series — 60 mins
  • Custer's Last Stand Up
    2002 — TV Series 1 ×
  • EastEnders
    2002 — TV Series 7 ×
  • Dillusc
    2000 — Short Film — 24 mins
  • The Irish Empire
    1999 — TV Series
  • Cosa Nite
    1998 — Short Film — 29 mins
  • Ros na Rún
    1996 — TV Series
Awards
  • 2025 — Winner
    IFTA Award — Best Director - Drama. Bad Sisters
  • 2023 — Winner
    IFTA — Best Director - Drama. Bad Sisters
  • 2023 — Winner
    BAFTA TV Award — Drama Series. Bad Sisters
  • 2023 — Winner
    Peabody Awards — Entertainment. Bad Sisters
  • 2023 — Nominee
    BAFTA TV Award — Best Director/Fiction. Bad Sisters
  • 2009 — Winner
    Primetime Emmy Awards — Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special. Little Dorrit
  • 2004 — Winner
    Celtic Film and Television Festival — Best Arts Documentary. Imagining Ulysses
  • 2004 — Winner
    Chicago International Film Festival — Best Documentary. Imagining Ulysses
  • 2021 — Nominee
    IFTA — Best Director- Drama. Fargo
  • 2020 — Winner
    IFTA — Best Director- Drama. The Handmaid's Tale
  • 2018 — Winner
    IFTA — Best Director- Drama. Fargo
  • 2015 — Nominee
    IFTA — Best Director- Drama. Penny Dreadful
  • 2011 — Winner
    ITFA — Best Director for Television. The Silence
  • 2009 — Nominee
    IFTA — Best Director for Television. Little Dorrit
  • 2007 — Nominee
    IFTA — Best Single Drama/Drama Serial. Hide & Seek
  • 2005 — Nominee
    IFTA — Best Director - TV Drama/Drama Series. Shameless
  • 2004 — Nominee
    IFTA — Best Documentary. Imagining Ulysses
  • 1999 — Nominee
    IFTA — Best Short Film. Cosa Nite
  • 2009 — Nominee
    Online Film & Television Association — Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Miniseries. Little Dorrit
  • 2004 — Nominee
    Prix Italia — TV Drama - Series and Serials. Shameless
  • 2011 — Winner
    British Academy of Film and Television Arts — Best Drama Series. Funland
  • 2011 — Winner
    British Academy of Film and Television — Best Drama Series. Shameless

Dearbhla Walsh is a renowned, international director whose work has been recognised with multiple awards wins and nominations during her career, including at the Emmys, BAFTA and IFTA awards.

Dearbhla’s latest work sees her return as lead director and EP for the second series of the critically acclaimed BAD SISTERS, starring Sharon Horgan for APPLE TV (Nov 2024), the first series having previously won a BAFTA for Best Production, an IFTA for Best Direction and EMMY and BAFTA nominations for Best Director.

Dearbhla’s recent directing credits also include Japanese dramedy SUNNY starring Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima for Apple TV, comedy pilot SHINING VALE starring Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear for Starz, and TALES FROM THE LOOP for Amazon, and Marvel’s THE PUNISHER for Disney.

Her previous credits include FARGO for FX, THE HANDMAID’S TALE for Hulu (both of which won Best Director accolades at the IFTAs), LITTLE DORRIT for BBC1 (winning the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries), and SHAMELESS for Channel 4 (winning a BAFTA Award for Best Production). Dearbhla also helmed Richard Curtis’ film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s ESIO TROT starring Dame Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman, which won him an Emmy for Best Actor.

Dearbhla is currently in pre-production on MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES for APPLE TV/ A24, starring Elle Fanning and Academy Award-winner, Nicole Kidman

Tales From the Loop
The Handmaid's Tale
Esio Trot
Little Dorrit
Fargo
Shameless
Shining Vale