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Dearbhla Walsh is an Irish film and television director who has worked on drama series for several television channels in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including episodes of ''
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''. She won the
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Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special for Part I of the serial ''
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television presenter
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. Walsh has won two
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for directing in 2011 and 2018 respectively. In 2009, Irish Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
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called her "one of our most accomplished directors".


Career

Walsh earned a degree from
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and has worked extensively in television, including children's programming. Her work on the
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soap opera ''EastEnders'' included the murder trial of
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. In 2004, Walsh directed ''The Big Bow Wow'' for
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. The following year, she directed '' Funland'' for
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, and in 2006, she directed the four-part RTÉ drama series ''Hide and Seek''. Also in 2006, Walsh directed a short film called ''Match'' for the ''Dance on the Box'' project, designed to promote the topic of dance, for RTÉ and the Arts Council. The film was awarded €18,000 for being selected. Described by Liam Fay of ''The Sunday Times'' as "two blokes rolling around on the pitch at
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," the film was one of four aired on a special programme called '' The View Presents . . . Dance on the Box''. In 2007, Walsh directed BAFTA winner
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drama '' Talk to Me''. The series, which featured scenes of a sexual nature between an
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teacher and her 15-year-old pupil, was defended by Walsh, who denied she had made them more raunchy on purpose. She commented, "I think the explicitness of 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 to do and they do all completely depend on trust. It may be explicit for nine o'clock – but it's not so much about sex as about love. Its aim definitely wasn't to shock. It wasn't about testing the watershed at all". 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 part of RTÉ's Dance on the Box series. The film explores the uncomfortable role of the body within the contemporary Irish church. Walsh directed two episodes of the horror television series ''
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's novel of the same name. Walsh has been nominated for the
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four times. In 2017, Walsh was one of the directors signed on for American television series '' Fargo''s third series. Walsh directed the episodes "The House of Special Purpose" and "The Lord of No Mercy". She is also the first woman to direct a ''Fargo'' episode. That year she also directed an episode of the Netflix Marvel series ''
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''. In 2022, she directed episodes of "Bad Sisters" and "Shining Vale".


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walsh, Dearbhla 1950s births Date of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of Dublin City University Irish women film directors Irish film directors Irish television directors LGBT film directors LGBT television directors Primetime Emmy Award winners Women television directors 21st-century Irish LGBT people