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name: "Avril Evans"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/avril-evans"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T16:00:54.813766+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."
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# Avril Evans

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4505512

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Call the Midwife*](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Avril Evans is a British director of film and television drama. She previously worked for nearly a decade as a promo director at the BBC, winning awards for her campaigns, before transitioning to scripted work.

She directed an episode of the BBC series *Call the Midwife* (series 13, episode 2, 2024). Other television credits include five episodes of Channel 4's *Hollyoaks* (2022–2023, including the Christmas block) and second unit direction on *Doctor Who*. Her short films *Playground* (2008) and *Famous Last Words* (2007) screened at the London Film Festival and Berlinale. Evans was selected as the first participant in a Bad Wolf scheme, funded by the BBC and Sony Pictures Television, to address the under-representation of women of colour in directing.

*Sources: imdb.com, broadcastnow.co.uk, bad-wolf.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Call the Midwife* (2012), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Playground* (2008), Director, Writer

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