---
name: "Dana Fainaru"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dana-fainaru"
fi1m_id: "dana-fainaru"
imdb_id: "nm2264771"
tmdb_id: 1847979
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:34:53.634985+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."
---

# Dana Fainaru

## Identity

Dana Fainaru

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dana-fainaru
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dana-fainaru
- **IMDb ID:** nm2264771
- **TMDB ID:** 1847979
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2264771/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1847979

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2264771/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1847979

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Casualty*](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Dana Fainaru is a television and film writer. She trained at the Drama Centre London and began her career as a theatre director and dramaturg, working in repertory theatre and as staff director at the Royal National Theatre.

After graduating from the BBC Writers’ Academy, she has written extensively for BBC continuing dramas, including as a core writer on *Holby City* and lead writer on *Casualty* (2008–2022). Her other credits include episodes of *EastEnders*, *Death in Paradise* (2015–2017), *The Last Czars* (2019), *Vikings: Valhalla* (2022–2024), *The Buccaneers* (2023–2025) and *Call the Midwife*. She served as executive producer and co-writer on *Significant Other* (2023).

Fainaru has received the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Episode of Continuing Drama and the MIND Mental Health in the Media Award for her *Casualty* episode “Place of Safety”. She was part of the *Casualty* writing team that won a BAFTA in 2021.

*Sources: theagency.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Casualty* (1986), Fi1m 68, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *The Buccaneers* (2023), series, Writer
- *Significant Other* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Vikings: Valhalla* (2022), series, Writer
- *The Last Czars* (2019), series, Writer
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, Writer
- *Casualty* (1986), series, Writer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)

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