- Dearbhla Walsh
- dearbhlawalsh@me.com
- +44 207 287 4450

DIRECTORS

Contact
Agent
- Charlotte Kelly
- charlotte@casarotto.co.uk
- +44 (0)20 7287 4450
- Casarotto Ramsay & Associates Limited
3rd Floor, 7 Savoy Court
Strand
London WC2R 0EX
Filmography
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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