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Steve Lightfoot (sometimes credited as Steven Lightfoot or Robert Scott Fraser) is a British television writer and producer who worked as an executive producer and writer on the
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thriller television series ''
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'', the
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series '' The Punisher'' and, recently, the Netflix thriller miniseries '' Behind Her Eyes'' and '' Shantaram''.


Education

Lightfoot graduated from the
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with an MA in creative writing.


Television career

Since the early 2000s, Lightfoot has worked on a number of high-profile television series as a producer and writer, including ''
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'', '' Transporter: The Series'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. He also serves as showrunner for '' The Punisher''. On 25 January 2019 it was announced that Lightfoot would be credited as an executive producer and writer in the Netflix thriller miniseries, '' Behind Her Eyes''. In 2022, Steve co-created '' Shantaram'' for
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with Eric Warren Singer which aired from 14 October 2022 and concluded on 16 December 2022. The show was canceled after one season. He is, along with
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, co-showrunner and executive producer of the upcoming series '' Spider-Noir'', starring
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Filmography


''Camelot''

* (1.07) "The Long Night" * (1.08) "Igraine" (with
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and Louise Fox)


''Transporter: The Series''

* (1.02) "Trojan Horsepower" * (1.11) "Cherchez La Femme"


''Hannibal''

* (1.09) "Trou Normand" * (1.11) "Rôti" (with
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and Scott Nimerfro) * (1.13) "Savoureux" (with Bryan Fuller and Scott Nimerfro) * (2.01) "Kaiseki" (with Bryan Fuller) * (2.03) "Hassun" (with
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) * (2.05) "Mukōzuke" (with Ayanna A. Floyd and Bryan Fuller) * (2.06) "Futamono" (with Andy Black, Bryan Fuller and Scott Nimerfro) * (2.07) "Yakimono" (with Bryan Fuller) * (2.08) "Su-zakana" (with Bryan Fuller and Scott Nimerfro) * (2.10) "Naka-Choko" (with Kai Yu Wu) * (2.13) "Mizumono" (with Bryan Fuller) * (3.01) "Antipasto" (with Bryan Fuller) * (3.03) "Secondo" (with Angelina Burnett and Bryan Fuller) * (3.04) "Aperitivo" (with Nick Antosca and Bryan Fuller) * (3.05) "Contorno" (with Bryan Fuller and Tom de Ville) * (3.06) "Dolce" (with Bryan Fuller and
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) * (3.07) "Digestivo" (with Bryan Fuller) * (3.08) "The Great Red Dragon" (with Nick Antosca and Bryan Fuller) * (3.09) "And the Woman Clothed with the Sun..." (with Bryan Fuller, Helen Shang and Jeff Vlaming) * (3.11) "...And the Beast from the Sea" (with Bryan Fuller) * (3.13) "The Wrath of the Lamb" (with Nick Antosca and Bryan Fuller)}


''The Punisher''

* (1.01) "3 AM" * (1.02) "Two Dead Men" * (1.03) "Kandahar" * (1.13) "Memento Mori" * (2.01) "Roadhouse Blues" * (2.02) "Fight or Flight" * (2.09) "Flustercluck" (with Ken Kristensen) * (2.10) "The Dark Hearts of Men" (with Angela LaManna) * (2.13) "The Whirlwind"


''Behind Her Eyes''

* (1.01) "Chance Encounters" * (1.02) "Lucid Dreaming" * (1.05) "The Second Door" * (1.06) "Behind Her Eyes"


''Shantaram''

* (1.01) "The Bombay No" (and Eric Warren Singer) * (1.02) "Down and Out in Bombay" (and Eric Warren Singer) * (1.03) "Strange Bedfellows" (and David Manson and Eric Warren Singer) * (1.12) ""All the Way From There Just to Get to Here"" (with Ken Kristensen)


Awards and nominations

In 2009, Lightfoot was nominated for a
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for producing ''House of Saddam''.


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lightfoot, Steven 21st-century British screenwriters British television writers British male television writers British television producers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of East Anglia