Coky Giedroyc

Coky Giedroyc
Born	Mary Rose Helen Giedroyc 1962 (age 56–57) Hong Kong
Occupation	Film director television director
Years active	1988–present
Spouse(s)	Sir Thomas Weyland Bowyer-Smyth, 15th Baronet (m. 1998)
Children	3
Relatives	Mel Giedroyc (sister) Philip Parham (brother-in-law)

Mary Rose Helen Giedroyc, Lady Bowyer-Smyth (/ˈkoʊki ˈɡɛdrɔɪtʃ/; born 1962), known as Coky Giedroyc, is an English director known for her work on Women Talking Dirty, The Virgin Queen, The Nativity and Penny Dreadful. She is the elder sister of actress and presenter Mel Giedroyc.

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  1 Early life
  


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  2 Career
  


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  3 Personal life
  


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  4 Filmography
  
  
  
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    4.2 Television
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 References
  


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  6 External links
  

Early life

Giedroyc grew up in Leatherhead, Surrey. Her father is Michal Giedroyc, a historian of Polish-Lithuanian descent from the princely Giedroyć family, who came to England in 1947; he died in December 2017.^[1] Her mother, Rosy, is of English descent.^[2] She attended Bristol University, where she first began to make films.^[3]

Career

Giedroyc has directed several films, including Women Talking Dirty and Stella Does Tricks; she is best known for her work directing television dramas, which have included Wuthering Heights, The Virgin Queen, Oliver Twist, Fear of Fanny, Carrie's War, and three episodes of Blackpool.

In 2007 she was nominated, with Paula Milne and Paul Rutman, for a Best Drama Serial BAFTA Award for The Virgin Queen. In 2010, her directing work for the BBC television series The Nativity was praised by critics, although the story portrayed some controversial elements that caused debate between Christians due to its modern dramatisations of the birth of Christ.

Giedroyc directed A Study in Pink, originally filmed as a 60-minute pilot for the television series Sherlock, which was written by Steven Moffat. The BBC decided not to broadcast the episode because they wished to change the broadcast length to 90 minutes. However, the pilot was released on the DVD of the first series, and it proved to be slightly different from the final version. She has also directed BBC's The Hour and What Remains.^[4] Giedroyc directed two episodes of the 2014 Showtime horror television series Penny Dreadful.^[5][6]

On 20 December 2015, Giedroyc directed the live television production of The Sound of Music, starring Kara Tointon as Maria, and her sister Mel Giedroyc as Frau Schmidt. The two-and-a-half-hour ITV transmission was the first musical to be broadcast live on national television in the UK, and had a cast and crew of more than 400 and 177 costumes.^[7]

In 2018, it was announced Giedroyc would direct How to Build a Girl, based upon the novel of the same name by Caitlin Moran, who also wrote the film's screenplay alongside John Niven. Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Sarah Solemani, Laurie Kynaston, Joanna Scanlan, Arinze Kene, Frank Dillane, Tadhg Murphy and Ziggy Heath will star in the film.^[8][9]

Personal life

Giedroyc married her first husband at 21, and had a son before divorcing. She remarried in 1998 to Sir Thomas Weyland Bowyer-Smyth, 15th Baronet, a BAFTA-winning production designer, with whom she has two children.^[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1996	Stella Does Tricks
1999	Women Talking Dirty
2019	How to Build a Girl

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1990	The Media Show	Episode: "DIY Media"
1992	TV Hell	TV special
1992	Rock Bottom	TV film
1995	Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing	TV film
1996–99	Murder Most Horrid	3 episodes
2000–02	Silent Witness	3 episodes
2001–03	Murder in Mind	2 episodes
2002	Helen West	Episode: "Shadow Play"
2004	Carrie's War	TV film
2004	William and Mary	2 episodes
2004	Blackpool	3 episodes
2006	The Virgin Queen	2 episodes
2006	Fear of Fanny	TV film
2007	Oliver Twist	5 episodes
2009	Wuthering Heights	2 episodes
2010	Sherlock	Episode: "Unaired Pilot"
2010	The Nativity	4 episodes
2011	The Hour	2 episodes
2013	Spies of Warsaw	4 episodes
2013	What Remains	4 episodes
2014	Penny Dreadful	2 episodes
2014	The Killing	Episode: "Truth Asunder"
2014	Reckless	Episode: "Fifty-One Percent"
2017	Harlots	3 episodes
2017	Gypsy	2 episodes
2018	Seven Seconds	1 episode

References

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   ^ Stanford, Peter (25 March 2010). "My father's Siberian prison hell". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
   


3. 
   ^ Downs, Jacqueline (2001). "Coky Giedroyc". In Allon, Yoram; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah. Contemporary British & Irish Directors. London: Wallflower Press. p. 111. ISBN 9781903364215.
   


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   ^ "A new thrilling four-part whodunit written by Tony Basgallop for BBC One". BBC. 14 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
   


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   ^ "PJ Dillon, Director of Photography" (PDF). Casarotto.
   


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   ^ "PJ Dillon: Latest News". PJDillon.com.
   


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   ^ "As ITV prepares for The Sound of Music Live, are we watching TV's future?". The Guardian. 15 December 2015.
   


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   ^ Wiseman, Andreas; Tartaglione, Nancy (May 8, 2018). "'Lady Bird's Beanie Feldstein To Lead 'How To Build A Girl' – Cannes". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
   


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   ^ Wiseman, Andreas (July 16, 2018). "Beanie Feldstein Comedy 'How To Build A Girl' Adds Cast, Lionsgate With Shoot Under Way". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
   


10. 
    ^ Stanford, Peter. "Problems like Maria's". The Tablet.
    

External links

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  Coky Giedroyc on IMDb

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