Biography
Charles Sturridge’s television work includes the award winning adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Brideshead Revisited’ (Granada), ‘A Foreign Field’ (BBC ) and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (C4) which won 5 out of a total of 11 Primetime Emmy Nominations. In 2000 wrote and directed ‘Longitude’ (C4) with Michael Gambon an Jeremy Irons and ‘Shackleton’ with Ken Branagh (C4) both winning Best Drama Serial BAFTA’s. In 2009 he directed the opening three episodes of: ’The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency’ (BBC/HBO/Weinstein Co) and the following year returned to Granada to direct ‘The Road To Coronations Street’ (BBC4) which won the RTS and BAFTA awards for Best Single Drama. In 2012 he wrote and directed Daphne Du Maurier’s ‘The Scapegaot with Matthew Rhys (ITV). and in 2013/14 he directed episodes of ‘Dates’ (C4) and “Da Vinci’s Demons’ (Starz). Recent work includes ‘Churchill’s Secret’ (ITV/Masterpiece) starring Michael Gambon, Lindsay Duncan, Matthew Macfadyen and Romola Garai, JK Rowling's Career of Evil (BBC/HBO) withTom Burke and Holliday Grainger and episodes of Marcella Series 2 (ITV/Netflix) with Anna Friel, MotherFatherSon (BBC2) with Richard Gere, Helen McCrory and Billy Howle and ITV's 'Sanditon' series 1 and 2. His films include: Runners, A Handful of Dust, Where Angels Fear to Tread, the BAFTA winning Fairytale and Lassie.