---
name: "Aisling Walsh"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aisling-walsh"
fi1m_id: "aisling-walsh"
imdb_id: "nm0909532"
tmdb_id: 133873
wikidata_id: "Q2443145"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T18:41:23.716948+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aisling Walsh

## Identity

Aisling Walsh

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aisling-walsh
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aisling-walsh
- **IMDb ID:** nm0909532
- **TMDB ID:** 133873
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2443145
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisling_Walsh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2443145, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909532/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133873

Director. Born 1 January 1958 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1958, Dublin, Ireland
- **Active:** 2005–2019
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisling_Walsh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2443145, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909532/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133873

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Elizabeth Is Missing*](https://film.one/film/elizabeth-is-missing.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Aisling Walsh is an Irish film and television director and screenwriter. She studied at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and the National Film School in Beaconsfield.

Walsh directed the BBC miniseries *Fingersmith* (2005) and *Room at the Top* (2012). Her other credits include the feature films *Song for a Raggy Boy* (2003), which she also wrote, *The Daisy Chain* (2008) and *Maudie* (2016), as well as the television films *An Inspector Calls* (2015) and *Elizabeth Is Missing* (2019).

She received a BAFTA TV Award for *Room at the Top* and Irish Film and Television Award and Canadian Screen Award recognition for *Maudie*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Elizabeth Is Missing* (2019), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/elizabeth-is-missing.md)
- *Room at the Top* (2012), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/room-at-the-top-2012.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Miss Austen* (2025), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Elizabeth Is Missing* (2019), Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/elizabeth-is-missing.md)
- *Maudie* (2016), Director
- *An Inspector Calls* (2015), Director
- *A Poet in New York* (2014), Director
- *Loving Miss Hatto* (2012), Director
- *Room at the Top* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/room-at-the-top-2012.md)
- *The Daisy Chain* (2008), Director
- *Damage* (2007), Writer, Director
- *Fingersmith* (2005), series, Director, Creator
- *Visions of Europe* (2004), Director
- *Song for a Raggy Boy* (2003), Director, Writer
- *Sinners* (2002), Director
- *Little Bird* (2000), Director
- *Forgive and Forget* (2000), Director
- *Trial & Retribution* (1997), series, Director
- *Roughnecks* (1994), series, Director
- *Joyriders* (1988), Writer, Director
- *Hostage* (1985), Director, Writer
- *The Portrait of a Lady*, series, Director
- *Ethel*, Director
- *Lucia*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Aisling Walsh](https://film.one/media/person/6787957/gallery-f7b67449c328.jpg) Aisling Walsh — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Aisling_Walsh.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Director Aisling Walsh and actress Sally Hawkins at the presentation of the movie Maudie at the Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/6787957/gallery-b133f775b2b0.jpg) Director Aisling Walsh and actress Sally Hawkins at the presentation of the movie Maudie at the Berlinale 2017 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Sally_Hawkins_Berlinale_2017_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![The producers Heather Haldane and Susan Mullen, director Aisling Walsh, actress Sally Hawkins, and the producers Mary Young Leckie and Bob Cooper at the present (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/6787957/gallery-9815136bf0c4.jpg) The producers Heather Haldane and Susan Mullen, director Aisling Walsh, actress Sally Hawkins, and the producers Mary Young Leckie and Bob Cooper at the present (2017) — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Sally_Hawkins_%282017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Director Aisling Walsh and actress Sally Hawkins at the presentation of the movie Maudie at the Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/6787957/gallery-fa2ea52e1854.jpg) Director Aisling Walsh and actress Sally Hawkins at the presentation of the movie Maudie at the Berlinale 2017 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/MJK35110_Aisling_Walsh_and_Sally_Hawkins_%28Maudie%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK35110_Aisling_Walsh_and_Sally_Hawkins_%28Maudie%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Aisling Walsh and actress Sally Hawkins at the presentation of the movie Maudie at the Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/6787957/gallery-3c7e895fb5dc.jpg) Director Aisling Walsh and actress Sally Hawkins at the presentation of the movie Maudie at the Berlinale 2017 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/MJK35121_Aisling_Walsh_and_Sally_Hawkins_%28Maudie%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK35121_Aisling_Walsh_and_Sally_Hawkins_%28Maudie%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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