Philippa Lowthorpe was born on 27 December 1961 and is an English film and television director.
10 Facts About Philippa Lowthorpe
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Philippa Lowthorpe was awarded the Deluxe Director Award at the WFTV Film and Television Awards for the miniseries Three Girls.
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Philippa Lowthorpe recently directed episodes of the second season of The Crown and the 2020 film Misbehaviour.
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Philippa Lowthorpe attended De Aston School in Market Rasen and then went to St Hilda's College, Oxford to study Classics.
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Philippa Lowthorpe moved to Bristol to make documentaries for BBC Bristol, including Three Salons at the Seaside and A Skirt Through History about women's untold stories.
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Philippa Lowthorpe's award-winning documentaries led her to be invited to write and direct her first drama Eight Hours from Paris for George Faber, a film for Screen Two in which real people played themselves, alongside professional actors.
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Philippa Lowthorpe was lead director on the very first series of Call the Midwife.
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Philippa Lowthorpe directed the first Call the Midwife Christmas Special, for which she won a BAFTA for directing.
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Philippa Lowthorpe is the only woman ever to have won this award.
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Philippa Lowthorpe's credits include Jamaica Inn, Call the Midwife, for which she won a British Academy Television Craft Award in 2013, Five Daughters, Beau Brummell: This Charming Man, and The Other Boleyn Girl.