About
Hello, I’m Tom Kingsley and I’m a director. I am not related to Ben Kingsley. Amongst other things, I have a BAFTA and a cat that went viral.
My new TV series Alice and Steve stars Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement is out now on Hulu and Disney+. It’s won three awards, including Best Series at Canneseries. One reviewer in The Guardian says it’s “excellent”, and another reviewer in The Guardian says it’s “wrong”.
My action-comedy movie Deep Cover was rated 90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and stars 100% of Orlando Bloom, Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Mohammed, Paddy Considine, Sonoya Mizuno, Sean Bean and Ian McShane.
For TV, I’ve directed This is Going to Hurt, Stath Lets Flats, and Ghosts, all of which were nominated for at least one BAFTA, and then won between six and zero BAFTAs. Empire called my 60th Anniversary episode of Doctor Who “an instant classic… one of 2023’s finest hours of TV”, and the Guardian wrote that my Channel 4 hoax The Great British Miracle Meat was “flawlessly executed… one of the most audaciously satirical spoofs ever aired in the UK”.
I’ve co-directed two feature films with Will Sharpe, the first of which - Black Pond - won the Evening Standard’s Best Newcomer award, and the second of which - The Darkest Universe - didn’t.
TV/Film contacts:
UK - Humphrey Elles-Hill at Independent Talent
US - Robert Newman and Daniel Cramer at WME
Commercials: Paul Weston at Blink Productions
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2444240/
ADVICE
Sometimes people email to ask me for advice about how to get into directing. So, for what it’s worth, here’s my advice.
