---
name: "Debbie O'Malley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/debbie-omalley"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T16:25:38.282901+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."
---

# Debbie O'Malley

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2012–2015
- **Frequently works with:** [China Moo-Young](https://film.one/person/china-moo-young.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1597701/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/195618

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Call the Midwife*](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md) (80)
- **Peacock:** [*Humans*](https://film.one/tv/humans.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Debbie O'Malley is a British television writer and producer. After reading English at Cambridge, she worked as an actor and freelance reader for theatre and television companies including Paines Plough and Carlton. She later served as a script editor for United/LWT and the BBC before writing full-time.

Her credits include episodes of *Call the Midwife* (2019–2021), *Humans* (2018), *All Creatures Great & Small* (2020–2024), *The Game* (2014), *Silk* (2012) and *Upstairs Downstairs* (2010). She has also written for *Law & Order: UK*, *Case Histories* and *Harlots*, and created and written series including *Payback* (2023) and *The Lady* (2026). She has served as associate producer and executive producer on several projects.

*Sources: imdb.com, cdn.casarotto.co.uk, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Humans* (2015), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/humans.md)
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *The Lady* (2026), series, Writer, Creator
- *Payback* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Around the World in 80 Days* (2021), series, Story
- *All Creatures Great & Small* (2020), series, Writer
- *Humans* (2015), series, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/humans.md)
- *The Game* (2014), series, Writer
- *The Guilty* (2013), series, Writer
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Case Histories* (2011), series, Writer
- *Silk* (2011), series, Writer
- *Upstairs Downstairs* (2010), series, Writer

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