---
name: "Becky Martin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/becky-martin"
fi1m_id: "becky-martin"
imdb_id: "nm0551953"
tmdb_id: 1795299
wikidata_id: "Q30251776"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T14:53:35.596489+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."
---

# Becky Martin

## Identity

Becky Martin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/becky-martin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** becky-martin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0551953
- **TMDB ID:** 1795299
- **Wikidata ID:** Q30251776
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Martin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30251776, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551953/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1795299

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2005–2018
- **Frequently works with:** [Jesse Armstrong](https://film.one/person/jesse-armstrong.md), [Tony Roche](https://film.one/person/tony-roche.md), [Armando Iannucci](https://film.one/person/armando-iannucci.md), [Chris Addison](https://film.one/person/chris-addison.md), [Georgia Pritchett](https://film.one/person/georgia-pritchett.md), [Ian Martin](https://film.one/person/ian-martin.md), [Roger Drew](https://film.one/person/roger-drew.md), [Sean Gray](https://film.one/person/sean-gray.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 94 (1), 2010s 85 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 88 to 78 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 1, War & Politics 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Martin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30251776, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551953/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1795299

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Succession*](https://film.one/tv/succession.md) (88), [*Veep*](https://film.one/tv/veep.md) (82)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Thick of It*](https://film.one/tv/the-thick-of-it.md) (94)

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

## Fi1m on Becky Martin

> Becky Martin directs comedy with an ear for timing and a concern for keeping people believable. We value her contribution to ensemble satire, where a conversation can become humiliating without anyone appearing to have prepared the joke.

In *The Thick of It* (2005), people struggle to finish an exchange without making their position worse. A carefully chosen phrase can be as dangerous as an unguarded one, and the fly-on-the-wall direction leaves little opportunity to recover. Becky Martin is well suited to that sort of comedy, which needs precise timing without performers seeming to wait for their cue. We found the conversational panic painfully funny because the effort to sound in control keeps producing fresh embarrassment. Martin directed one episode, in 2012; the programme’s larger achievement is shared.

Her television directing began with sketches and comedy series in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before a substantial run on *Peep Show*: 36 episodes across series four to nine, from 2007 to 2015. *Veep* took her into American television, with 14 episodes between 2013 and 2019. Those credits give some scale to a career spent handling ensembles and finding jokes through performance. Two episodes of *Succession*, in 2019 and 2023, extended that work into drama.

Armando Iannucci and Natalie Bailey are also among the directors of *The Thick of It*, while the writers include Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche and Ian Martin. The scripts allow improvisation, and the loose, observational style makes prepared humiliations feel accidental. It also lets us watch the ensemble rather than attend only to the person delivering the sharpest insult. The direction works because it allows the writing to be precise without making the confusion look rehearsed.

Martin’s stated concern for truth in comedy makes sense of this work: the people need to believe in what they are saying, however foolish it sounds. That is a sound basis for directing actors, though it does not make every insult equally entertaining. The relentless abuse in *The Thick of It* sometimes offers less variety than the ensemble does. Start there, and give the people without the sharpest lines some attention.

## Biography

Becky Martin is a British television director and producer. Her credits include directing episodes of *Peep Show* (series four to nine), *Pete versus Life*, *Getting On*, *Veep*, *Succession* and *Avenue 5*. She also directed one episode of *The Thick of It* (series four, 2012) and episodes of *Succession* (2019 and 2023).

In 2017, Martin won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Comedy Series for the *Veep* episode "Inauguration".

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Succession* (2018), Fi1m 88, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/succession.md)
- *Veep* (2012), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/veep.md)
- *The Thick of It* (2005), Fi1m 94, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-thick-of-it.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Brian Butterfield's Call of Now* (2025), Director
- *Succession* (2018), series, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/succession.md)
- *Getting On* (2013), series, Director
- *Veep* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/veep.md)
- *Ladies and Gentlemen* (2007), Director
- *The Peter Serafinowicz Show* (2007), series, Director
- *Count Arthur Strong The Musical?* (2007), Director
- *The Thick of It* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-thick-of-it.md)
- *Britain's Best Sitcom* (2004), series, Director

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