Justin Chadwick
Justin Chadwick is the award winning theatre, television and film director who most recently completed shooting THE FIRST GRADER, starring Naomi Harris for Origin Pictures / Sixth Sense Productions for BBC Films and the UK Film Council. Justin Chadwick was born in Manchester in 1968. He began acting at the age of eleven; he graduated from the University of Leicester and from 1991 started playing roles on the screen, as in London Kills Me and The Loss of Sexual Innocence, and in several tv dramas. Justin's directorial debut was the 1993 tv movie Family Style starring Ewan McGregor, after which he directed and performed in Shakespeare Shorts, a series that explored the history of Shakespearean characters. He directed episodes of EastEnders, Byker Grove, The Bill, Spooks and Bleak House. For the direction of this last BBC miniseries, Justin was nominated for several important awards, the Primetime Emmy and the BAFTA among the others. Justin's first feature film was the highly-acclaimed The Other Boleyn Girl, which premiered at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, starring Eric Bana, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.
