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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025
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
2024
Executive Producer
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
2023
Executive Producer
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
2022
Executive Producer
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
2022
Executive Producer
This documentary reveals the surprising and overlooked history of Pride: its origins, its struggles and its triumphs. Made in creative and editorial ...

Together
2021
Director
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
2016
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
2015
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
2014
Director
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
2014
Stage Director, Director
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
2014
Stage Director, Director
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
2013
Stage Director
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
2012
Producer
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
2012
as Self
A documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
Director
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
2008
Director
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
2008
as Self (archive footage)
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
A teenage girl has to decide whether or not to donate her hair to charity.

Guy X
2005
Executive Producer
A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.

Mickybo and Me
2005
Executive Producer
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
2003
as Self - Commentary, Eight (voice)
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
2003
Director
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
2002
Director
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
2000
Director
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
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
In early 1900s Surrey, fifty women labeled as typhoid carriers face unjust confinement at Long Grove Asylum. Isolated and stigmatized, they endure har...