Elliot Hegarty is a film and television director working in Britain and the United States. His film and TV credits include

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and Katherine Parkinson for

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which won 7 Emmys in 2021, the highly-acclaimed Cheaters for

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, two film adaptations of David Walliams' books - The Midnight Gang with Alan Davies and Haydn Gwynne and Grandpa's Great Escape with Tom Courtenay and Jennifer Saunders. He also directed the first block of Season 3 of Trying for

, ''Lizzie and Sarah'' by

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, '' Lovesick'' on

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, '' Star Stories'', '' The Kevin Bishop Show'', '' FM'', '' Moving Wallpaper'', '' Great Night Out'' and Jack Whitehall's TV series - '' Bad Education''. In the US Elliot has directed over 35 episodes of TV across a broad range of Network comedies such as '' Black-ish'', '' The Real O'Neals'', '' Mr. Sunshine'', '' The Middle'', '' Suburgatory,'' Selfie, Trophy Wife, Family Tools and

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. His two feature film credits are

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and the 2000 film '' County Kilburn'' starring Ciarán McMenamin, a film he also wrote. Elliot also directs commercials. The first three ads he directed were for Club 18–30, for which he won eight awards, including a Silver and two Bronzes at the British Television Advertising awards and a Bronze Lion at Cannes. He was nominated as Best New Director at the British Television Advertising Craft awards in 2000 and selected for the prestigious New Directors' Showcase in Cannes 2001. He has worked with such clients as Guinness, MFI, KFC, Toyota, Npower, Enterprise, Hyundai and the Daily Telegraph. He has been twice nominated for a

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award - in 2008 and again in 2018. He won Best Comedy at the British Comedy Awards.

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* * 1971 births English expatriates in the United States English film directors English screenwriters English male screenwriters English television directors Living people Writers from London Date of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the London Film School {{Tv-director-stub