Dearbhla Walsh facts for kids
Dearbhla Walsh is a talented Irish film and television director. She has directed many popular drama shows for TV channels in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Some of these include episodes of EastEnders, Shameless, and The Tudors.
In 2009, Dearbhla Walsh won a big award called the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing. She won it for her work on the TV series Little Dorrit. She has also won two Irish Film and Television Awards for directing, in 2011 and 2018. An Irish government minister, Martin Cullen, once said she was "one of our most accomplished directors."
Career
Dearbhla Walsh studied at Dublin City University. She has worked a lot in television, even directing shows for children.
Early Directing Work
In 2004, Walsh directed a show called The Big Bow Wow for RTÉ, an Irish TV channel. The next year, she directed Funland for BBC Three. In 2006, she directed a four-part drama series for RTÉ called Hide and Seek.
Also in 2006, Walsh directed a short film named Match. This film was part of a project to promote dance. It was shown on a special TV programme. In 2007, she directed the ITV drama Talk to Me.
Award-Winning Projects
In 2010, Dearbhla Walsh directed The Silence for BBC1. This show was about a deaf girl who sees a murder. It starred actors Douglas Henshall and Gina McKee. She also directed a dance film called Mo Mhórchoir Féin. This film was part of RTÉ's Dance on the Box series.
Walsh directed two episodes of the horror TV series Penny Dreadful. She also directed Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, which was a TV movie based on Roald Dahl's famous book. She has been nominated for the Irish Film and Television Awards four times.
Directing Popular Shows
In 2017, Dearbhla Walsh became one of the directors for the American TV series Fargo. She directed two episodes: "The House of Special Purpose" and "The Lord of No Mercy". She was the first woman to direct an episode of Fargo.
That same year, she also directed an episode of the Netflix Marvel series The Punisher. More recently, in 2022, she directed episodes of the award-winning show Bad Sisters and Shining Vale.
