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Known for
Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
10 December
Location
Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Edit pageFarren Blackburn
Biography
Farren Blackburn is a British film and television director and screenwriter. His work includes Netflix's young adult love story, The Innocents, the French English-language psychological thriller Shut In starring Naomi Watts, Netflix and Marvel's Daredevil, Iron Fist, and The Defenders.
He directed The Fades for which he received a BAFTA for Best Drama Series. He also directed the Golden Globe-nominated crime series Luther, the movie Hammer of the Gods, the BBC period drama The Musketeers and the Doctor Who episodes "The Rings of Akhaten" and the 2011 Christmas special, "The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe".
He directed Naomi Watts in the French English-language psychological thriller Shut In (2016), from Christina Hodson's Blacklist screenplay about a woman who discovers a shocking secret about her catatonic son. In June 2019 he announced via Twitter that he will direct 5 episodes of season 2 of A Discovery of Witches.
In years previous, he was also a regular director of BBC medical drama Holby City.
