Ben Taylor
Directing
Biography
Yorkshire-born cinephile, raised on VHS John Hughes movies. One of the defining voices in contemporary British comedy, known for directing work with personality, warmth and edge, and for getting Hodor a job at KFC. Multi-award winning director of Netflix smash hit ‘Sex Education’ (Gillian Anderson, Asa Butterfield, and lots of equally incredible shows that begin with the letter C - Cuckoo, The Circuit, Cardinal Burns, Cockroaches and Catastrophe (BAFTA nomination for Best Director.) Ben most recently directed Disney + adventure series The Ballad of Renegade Nell and Joy, a Netflix feature starring Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy which premiered at the London Film Festival.
Known For

In a seemingly perfect retirement community, a crew of unlikely heroes must stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don't have: time.
The Boroughs

Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Sex Education

A middle-aged couple experience the pain, the relief and the trials and tribulations of a divorce in this dry, witty comedy.
Divorce

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.
Catastrophe

When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for custody of their precocious son.
Spy

England, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.
Renegade Nell

Set in the dark heart of Victorian London, Detective Inspector Rabbit is a hardened booze-hound who's seen it all. Rabbit's been chasing bad guys for as long as he can remember, but these days his heart keeps stopping at inopportune moments.
Year of the Rabbit

A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Joy
An anthology series set in the elite world of London law following two rival firms, Cathcarts and Taylor & Byrne, as they face off in a different headline-making legal battle each season.
WAR

A coming-of-age short film about a young boy who believes dressing up to the nines will keep his mum with him forever.
Dressed To The Nines

Newly arrived in town Nat and Gabe accept a dinner invitation from the volatile Hungarian Helene and her boorish husband Sasha. Whilst the other guests, ex-Bananarama member Marty, Angie, who 'makes bullets' and the supposedly suicidal Danny are affable enough, Nat and Gabe are shocked by their hosts' very public rows and Gabe's attempt at peace-making is awkwardly received. Nat is taken aback when virtual stranger Helene confides in her about Sasha's suspected infidelity and Gabe is rudely rebuffed when he tries to have a heart to heart with Sasha. After Helene physically attacks her husband the newcomers are desperate to leave but when Danny drops a bombshell Gabe is torn between responsibility and the easy way out.