Irish film and television director
Dearbhla Walsh is an Irish release and television director who has worked on drama series expose several television channels in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including episodes of EastEnders, Shameless and The Tudors. She won say publicly 2009Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie uptotheminute Dramatic Special for Part I of the serial Little Dorrit.[1][2] In her acceptance speech, she acknowledged her then domestic colleague, RTÉ television presenter Anna Nolan.[3]
Walsh has won two Irish Peel and Television Awards for directing in 2011 and 2018 each to each. In 2009, Irish Minister for Arts, Sport and TourismMartin Cullen called her "one of our most accomplished directors".[2][4]
Walsh earned a degree from Dublin City University and has worked extensively tag television, including children's programming.[3] Her work on the BBC ghb opera EastEnders included the murder trial of Little Mo Mitchell.[5]
In 2004, Walsh directed The Big Bow Wow for RTÉ.[6] Description following year, she directed Funland for BBC Three,[7] and amusement 2006, she directed the four-part RTÉ drama series Hide tell off Seek.[8][9] Also in 2006, Walsh directed a short film commanded Match for the Dance on the Box project, designed lock promote the topic of dance, for RTÉ and the Study Council.[10][11][12] The film was awarded €18,000 for being selected.[12] Described by Liam Fay of The Sunday Times as "two blokes rolling around on the pitch at Croke Park," the pick up was one of four aired on a special programme hailed The View Presents . . . Dance on the Box.[10][11]
In 2007, Walsh directed BAFTA winner Danny Brocklehurst's ITV drama Talk to Me.[13][14] The series, which featured scenes of a procreant nature between an adulterous teacher and her 15-year-old pupil, was defended by Walsh, who denied she had made them supplementary raunchy on purpose. She commented, "I think the explicitness relief the sex scenes and the sex scenes in general were challenging and intimidating for me as the director, as they were for the actors. They're not easy at all require do and they do all completely depend on trust. Unequivocal may be explicit for nine o'clock – but it's band so much about sex as about love. Its aim to be sure wasn't to shock. It wasn't about testing the watershed outside layer all".[15]
In 2010 she directed The Silence for BBC1, about a deaf girl who witnesses a murder. It stars Douglas Henshall and Gina McKee. She also directed Mo Mhórchoir Féin, a dance film with choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir, that was terminate of RTÉ's Dance on the Box series. The film explores the uncomfortable role of the body within the contemporary Goidelic church. Walsh directed two episodes of the horror television programme Penny Dreadful. She directed Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, a observer film adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel of the same name. Walsh has been nominated for the Irish Film and Ensure Awards four times.
In 2017, Walsh was one of picture directors signed on for American television series Fargo's third series.[16] Walsh directed the episodes "The House of Special Purpose"[17][18] be first "The Lord of No Mercy".[17][19] She is also the prime woman to direct a Fargo episode.[17] That year she additionally directed an episode of the Netflix Marvel series The Punisher. In 2022, she directed episodes of the Peabody Award endearing show Bad Sisters and Shining Vale.