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name: "Ben Chessell"
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roles: ["Director"]
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updated: "2026-09-17T03:44:08.788573+00:00"
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# Ben Chessell

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director

## Biography

Ben Chessell is an Australian television and film director. He studied ecology and medieval history at Melbourne University before graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001. His early credits include short films and the 2005 telemovie *The Heartbreak Tour*.

Chessell has directed episodes of numerous Australian series including *Dance Academy* (2010), *Offspring*, *Rush* and *The Family Law*. His international work encompasses *Camp* (2013) in the United States, the BAFTA-nominated *Giri/Haji* (2019) for BBC and Netflix, and two episodes of *The Great* (2020) for Hulu. He served as lead director on *Surviving Summer* (2022) and *Deadloch* (2023), for which he received an AACTA nomination, and directed episodes of *Doctor Who* (2024).

*Sources: unitedagents.co.uk, if.com.au, imdb.com, theflemingagency.com.au.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Great* (2020), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md)

## Also known for

- *Doctor Who* (2024), Director
- *Giri/Haji* (2019), Director
- *Deadloch* (2023), Director
- *Surviving Summer* (2022), Director
- *Dance Academy* (2010), Director

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