Tom Kingsley is an English TV and film director. He is best known for directing ''
Ghosts
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'' and three-time
BAFTA-winning
Channel 4 sitcom ''
Stath Lets Flats
''Stath Lets Flats'' is a British sitcom created and co-written by Jamie Demetriou, which premiered on Channel 4 on 27 June 2018. The series stars Demetriou as an incompetent and socially inept British Greek-Cypriot man who only has his job at a ...
''. His work has been nominated for the 2012
BAFTAs, the 2011
British Independent Film Awards, the ''Guardian First Film Award'', the ''Evening Standard Film Awards'', and the
Raindance Film Festival.
Education
Kingsley was educated at
Eton College, a boarding
independent school
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for boys in
Eton in Berkshire, followed by
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied English, and was a member of the comedy group
Footlights, directing the Footlights Revue "Wham Bam" at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe.
Life and career
In 2008, Kingsley worked as a runner at Blink, the Soho-based production company, after sending them a DVD containing several of his short films. Over the next year, he began directing music videos and commercials.
In 2011 Kingsley and
Will Sharpe released their low-budget feature-length film ''
Black Pond''. The film led to Kingsley and Sharpe being nominated for Outstanding Debut at the
Baftas, and winning Most Promising Newcomer(s) at the ''
Evening Standard'' Film Awards. It was listed as a film of the year in the ''
New Statesman'' and the ''
Financial Times''.
In 2022, Kingsley directed the second of the
60th anniversary specials for ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
'', to be screened in 2023.
Filmography
Feature films
*''
The Darkest Universe
''The Darkest Universe'' is a 2016 black comedy film by Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley. The film premiered at the London Comedy Film Festival (LOCO) in April 2016, and subsequently screened at the East End Film Festival in July 2016. The film was wr ...
'' (2016)
*''
Black Pond'' (2011)
TV series
* ''
Stath Lets Flats
''Stath Lets Flats'' is a British sitcom created and co-written by Jamie Demetriou, which premiered on Channel 4 on 27 June 2018. The series stars Demetriou as an incompetent and socially inept British Greek-Cypriot man who only has his job at a ...
'' (2018)
* ''
Pls Like
''Pls Like'' is a BBC television satirical mockumentary, produced by Left Bank Pictures and screened on BBC Three online in 2017. A second series followed in 2018 and a third in 2021. The first series starred Liam Williams as himself, in a q ...
'' (2017)
*
''Ghosts'' (2019)
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''This Is Going to Hurt'' (2021)
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''Doctor Who'' (2023)
References
External links
Official website*
Kingsley's YouTube channel
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1985 births
Advertising directors
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
British music video directors
Living people
Film directors from London
People educated at Eton College