BAFTA Award-winning director Susanna White most recently directed Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang for Working Title, starring Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dame Maggie Smith, Rhys Ifans and Ralph Fiennes.

Susanna won widespread praise in 2005 for her direction of six episodes of the BBC’s acclaimed drama series, Bleak House based on Charles Dickens’ novel. The series won a host of international broadcast awards including the BAFTA for Best Drama Serial and the RTS Award for Best Drama Serial, among many others. From this success White went on to direct another highly-regarded drama series for the BBC the following season – Jane Eyre, which was equally lauded, earning numerous awards nominations, including an Emmy nomination for Best Director Miniseries.

Known for her performance-driven, character based projects, White began her career in documentaries, which include Volvo City a portrait of the Hasidic community of North London which won a Broadcast Award for best newcomer. In 2000 she won an Emmy nomination for her portrait of the poet W.H. Auden Tell Me The Truth About Love.

White then directed drama including the episodes in several series of Channel 4’s hit series, Teachers which gained BAFTA and RTS nominations for Best Drama Series; Love Again, a film for TV about another much-beloved modern-day English poet, Philip Larkin (RTS and Banff nominations for Best Single Drama); Granada TV’s Lie With Me and Mr Harvey Lights A Candle starring Timothy Spall and Natalie Press for the BBC.

Her most recent television project was HBO’s Generation Kill, a seven-part miniseries that tells the intimate tale of young Marines whose unit is part of the first wave of the American military assault on Baghdad. The drama is based upon the award-winning book of the same name by Evan Wright and shot on location in Africa.