Catherine Derry

Catherine Derry

Cinematographer.

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Biography

Catherine Derry is a British cinematographer based in London and a member of the British Society of Cinematographers. She has more than 25 years of experience across features, high-end television drama, commercials, music videos and documentaries.

She began her career in motion control, progressing through the camera department to become a focus puller before establishing herself as a director of photography in the late 2000s. Her first feature was the BAFTA award-winning Junkhearts (2011).

Derry’s credits include the features Been So Long (2018), Choose or Die (2022) and A Christmas Number One (2021), and television series such as Industry (2020), The Great (2023), A Thousand Blows (2024) and Hostage (2025).

Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, Catherine Derry is known for Choose or Die (2022), Howl (2015), Unchosen (2026), Been So Long (2018) and A Christmas Number One (2021).