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name: "Dominic Leclerc"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dominic-leclerc"
fi1m_id: "dominic-leclerc"
imdb_id: "nm2575302"
tmdb_id: 1187105
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "director"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T16:33:04.555221+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."
---

# Dominic Leclerc

## Identity

Dominic Leclerc

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dominic-leclerc
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dominic-leclerc
- **IMDb ID:** nm2575302
- **TMDB ID:** 1187105
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2575302/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1187105

Director. Born in Bradford.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2004–2019
- **Also known as:** Dominic le Clerc
- **Frequently works with:** [Amy Roberts](https://film.one/person/amy-roberts-2534139.md), [Jack Lothian](https://film.one/person/jack-lothian.md), [Jack Thorne](https://film.one/person/jack-thorne.md), [Jonathan Harvey](https://film.one/person/jonathan-harvey.md), [Laura Hunter](https://film.one/person/laura-hunter.md), [Loren McLaughlan](https://film.one/person/loren-mclaughlan.md), [Luke Watson](https://film.one/person/luke-watson.md), [Minkie Spiro](https://film.one/person/minkie-spiro.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as director, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (2), 2010s 79 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Comedy 3
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2575302/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1187105

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Call the Midwife*](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md) (80), [*Sex Education*](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md) (78)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Village*](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md) (78)
- **Apple TV:** [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md) (75)
- **Disney+:** [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) (72)

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

## Fi1m on Dominic Leclerc

> Dominic Leclerc is worth following for ensemble drama, particularly his work with young performers. The series he has helped make earn our affection, though predictable plotting and an appetite for noise keep our enthusiasm qualified.

The teenagers in *Skins* are more sympathetic than the programme’s appetite for shock might suggest. We laughed, then found ourselves caring about them because the dialogue and performances gave us reasons to stay. Dominic Leclerc, who directed episodes seven and eight of its fifth series (2010), has a useful instinct for ensemble work, particularly with young casts. His youth-drama work has involved bringing new faces to the screen and taking risks. The predictable plotting remains a substantial reservation, but the actors make the programme worth an evening.

*Shameless*, where his recurring directing work includes episodes from 2009, offers a similarly qualified pleasure. David Threlfall makes Frank Gallagher funny without making him easy company, while the ensemble earns an affection the uneven writing does not always deserve. These are collaborative series, and we should not mistake their collective virtues for proof that every good scene belongs to Leclerc. They do, however, establish his experience of working with ensembles in dramas that can become noisy enough to try our patience.

Theatre and choreography preceded his television directing and inform his movement and staging. His collaborators include writer-producer Kay Mellor, while his television career has moved towards lead-director roles. On the fourth series of *Sex Education* (2023), he directed the opening three episodes and contributed to set design. That involvement in the sets is worth noting for a director whose background already involves arranging performers in physical space. It gives us a reason to look beyond the acting when considering what he brings to a programme.

*Protect Me From What I Want* (2009), which he wrote and directed, offers a different route into the work. The short explores queer themes in Bradford and West Yorkshire, settings and concerns that recur in his short films. The writing credit makes it a useful place to look for his own interests, away from the shared responsibilities of a continuing television series. Begin with *Skins* for the young performers, but be prepared to forgive the plotting.

## Biography

Dominic Leclerc is an English television and film director. Originally from Bradford, he began his career as a theatre director and choreographer, working at venues including the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court and West Yorkshire Playhouse. He won the Channel 4 Regional Theatre Director Scheme and other awards including the ITV David Fraser Bursary and the Oxford Samuel Beckett Award.

His early short films include *Protect Me from What I Want* (2009). He has directed episodes of *Shameless* (from 2009) and *Skins* (from 2010), as well as series including *Sex Education*, *Call the Midwife*, *The A Word*, *The Syndicate* and *Silent Witness*. His feature debut *Flesh and Flamingos* is in production.

*Sources: imdb.com, unitedagents.co.uk, yorkshirepost.co.uk, phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Sex Education* (2019), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md)
- *The Village* (2013), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md)
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)
- *Shameless* (2004), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Prüdes Hollywood - Laster, Lust und Leidenschaft im Film* (2025), Actor
- *All the Lights Still Burning* (2023), Director
- *The Teacher* (2022), series, Director, Associate Producer
- *Sex Education* (2019), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md)
- *Babs* (2017), Director
- *The A Word* (2016), series, Director
- *From Darkness* (2015), series, Director
- *The Village* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md)
- *Boys on Film 8: Cruel Britannia* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Par-courts Gay, Volume 2* (2012), Director
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Boys On Film 4: Protect Me From What I Want* (2010), Director, Writer
- *Nightswimming* (2010), Director, Writer
- *Protect Me From What I Want* (2009), Director, Writer
- *Skins* (2007), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)
- *Shameless* (2004), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Director
- *Heartbeat* (1992), series, Director

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