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Alice Troughton
Born
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Kent
Occupation
Years active 2002–present

Alice Troughton is a British film and television director known for her work on Merlin, Doctor Who and its spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. In 2023, she made her feature film debut with The Lesson.

Career

Troughton studied drama at the University of Kent, where in her second year she directed Hamlet. She realised she wanted to be a television director when she was 32 years old, having worked as a fringe-theatre director, writer, personal driver at ICM and BBC Films and care worker. In 2002, she enrolled in the Doctors directing course. The same year in India, Troughton filmed her first short film called Refuge, based on the diary of a young Tibetan woman. It was later followed by another short film, Doris the Builder, starring Tom Ellis and based on a true story from her hometown, Aylesbury, about a builder.

From 2006 to 2010, Troughton directed episodes of each of Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Doctor Who. She was only the second person (after Colin Teague) to direct episodes of all three shows, which are set in a shared universe. Despite their shared surname and common association with Doctor Who, Troughton is not related to actor Patrick Troughton, who played the Second Doctor in the 1960s. Her directing in the franchise received overwhelmingly positive reviews, particularly for the Doctor Who episode "Midnight". Since then, she has gone on to become a leading director, working on acclaimed award-winning British shows such as BBC Three's In the Flesh and Channel 4's Cucumber and Baghdad Central. For her work on Cucumber, she was nominated for Best Director: Fiction at the 2015 Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards. In the US, she worked on The CW's superhero series The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow and Netflix's science fiction series Lost in Space.

For Doctor Who, she cast Colin Morgan in his second television role as the conflicted teenager Jethro Cane, which contributed to him being cast in Merlin, where Troughton became one of the regular directors from the second series onwards. The two later collaborated on the BBC supernatural horror drama The Living and the Dead.

Her debut feature film The Lesson, starring Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Notes
2002 Refuge Short film
2004 Doris the Builder Short film; also writer
2023 The Lesson

Television

Year Title Notes
2002–2004 Doctors 23 episodes
2004–2005 Holby City 6 episodes
2004–2006 EastEnders 20 episodes:
  • Episodes dated 5 to 9 January 2004
  • Episodes dated 31 May to 4 June 2004
  • Episodes dated 29 August to 2 September 2005
  • Episodes dated 6 to 9 June 2006
2006 No Angels 3 episodes
Torchwood 2 episodes:
  • "Small Worlds"
  • "Out of Time"
2007–2010 The Sarah Jane Adventures 10 episodes
2008 Doctor Who 3 episodes:
  • "The Poison Sky" (Rose Tyler cameo scene, uncredited)
  • "The Doctor's Daughter"
  • "Midnight"
2009 Casualty 2 episodes
Tonight's the Night Doctor Who sketch
2009–2012 Merlin 13 episodes
2012 Silk 2 episodes
2013 Frankie 2 episodes
Atlantis 5 episodes
2014 In the Flesh 2 episodes
2015 Cucumber 3 episodes
Teen Wolf Episode: "Required Reading"
2016 The Flash Episode: "Flash Back"
The Living and the Dead 3 episodes
2016–2017 Legends of Tomorrow 2 episodes
2017–2020 Tin Star 3 episodes
2018 Lost in Space Episode: "The Robinsons Were Here"
A Discovery of Witches 3 episodes
Lore 3 episodes
2020 Baghdad Central 3 episodes
2022 The Midwich Cuckoos 2 episodes; also executive producer
2023 Boat Story 2 episodes
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