Stephen Daldry

Stephen Daldry

1961-05-02 Dorset, England 26 Credits

Biography

Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. He has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), and The Reader (2008). From 2016 to 2020, he produced and directed the Netflix television series The Crown, for which he received one Producers Guild Award nomi...

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Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow

2025

6.5
Acting

Join the cast and crew behind the scenes of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the award-winning stage play that expands the Hawkins universe. The Net...

Unicorns

Unicorns

2024

Executive Producer

7.9
Producing

When hard-working single father Luke stumbles across an underground nightclub, he meets Aysha, a beautiful, seductive woman. Their first kiss yields f...

The Walk

The Walk

2023

Executive Producer

Producing

Asil is a young Syrian refugee awaiting documents in Turkey while processing the trauma of losing her home and family. Her story gives voice to a char...

The Swimmers

The Swimmers

2022

Executive Producer

7.4
Producing

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use...

Freedom: 50 Years of Pride

Freedom: 50 Years of Pride

2022

Executive Producer

8.0
Producing

This documentary reveals the surprising and overlooked history of Pride: its origins, its struggles and its triumphs. Made in creative and editorial ...

Together

Together

2021

Director

5.8
Directing

A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.

One Night In 2012

One Night In 2012

2016

Acting

Co-produced by Rogan Productions and BBC Studios. London. The Summer of 2012. As rehearsals take place in a rainy Dagenham car park, Director Danny B...

Darcey's Ballet Heroes

Darcey's Ballet Heroes

2015

Acting

60-minute film in which ballet star Darcey Bussell undertakes a very personal journey to meet the heroes and dancers who transformed male ballet.

Trash

Trash

2014

Director

7.1
Directing

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

Billy Elliot: The Musical Live

Billy Elliot: The Musical Live

2014

Stage Director, Director

8.1
Directing

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trial...

National Theatre Live: Skylight

National Theatre Live: Skylight

2014

Stage Director, Director

8.9
Directing

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charis...

National Theatre Live: The Audience

National Theatre Live: The Audience

2013

Stage Director

8.3
Directing

For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British...

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

2012

Producer

7.7
Producing

The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Ceremony welcomed the finest athletes ...

Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter

Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter

2012

as Self

Acting

A documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011

Director

7.0
Directing

A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a s...

The Reader

The Reader

2008

Director

7.5
Directing

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008

as Self (archive footage)

6.4
Acting

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

Unlocked

2006

Executive Producer

Producing

A teenage girl has to decide whether or not to donate her hair to charity.

Guy X

Guy X

2005

Executive Producer

4.7
Producing

A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.

Mickybo and Me

Mickybo and Me

2005

Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the S...

Cinema16: British Short Films

Cinema16: British Short Films

2003

as Self - Commentary, Eight (voice)

4.6
Acting

This critically acclaimed DVD contains 16 of the best classic and award winning British short films and delivers a snapshot of British cinema past and...

Cinema16: British Short Films

Cinema16: British Short Films

2003

Director

4.6
Directing

This critically acclaimed DVD contains 16 of the best classic and award winning British short films and delivers a snapshot of British cinema past and...

The Hours

The Hours

2002

Director

7.3
Directing

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...

Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot

2000

Director

7.6
Directing

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the l...

Eight

1998

Director

5.5
Directing

A day in the life of an eight-year-old soccer fan who has to come to terms with living in a strange new town and the loss of his father.

Angels in the Asylum

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

In early 1900s Surrey, fifty women labeled as typhoid carriers face unjust confinement at Long Grove Asylum. Isolated and stigmatized, they endure har...