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name: "Emma Sullivan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emma-sullivan"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T16:00:16.985623+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."
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# Emma Sullivan

Director. Born in London.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2005–2012
- **Frequently works with:** [Helen Raynor](https://film.one/person/helen-raynor.md), [Jamie Payne](https://film.one/person/jamie-payne.md), [Sheree Folkson](https://film.one/person/sheree-folkson.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106571680, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2827467/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1875947

## Streaming the US now

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

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

## Biography

Emma Sullivan is a British film and television director. She trained at the National Film and Television School, where she received a David Lean Foundation scholarship for her MA in Fiction Direction. She also holds a BA Hons in Fine Art from Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design and an MA in Communication, Art & Design from the Royal College of Art.

Her television credits include episodes of *Call the Midwife* (2018), *Doctor Who* (2020), *The Watch* (2021), *Silent Witness* (2019), *Holby City* (2014) and *One Piece* (2023). She has also written and directed several short films, including *After Tomorrow* (2009), which was nominated for a Palme d’Or at Cannes and won Best Short Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

*Sources: bafta.org, imdb.com, emmasullivan.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *The Dark* (2026), series, Director
- *One Piece: Into the Grand Line* (2026), Director
- *ONE PIECE* (2023), series, Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Watch* (2021), series, Director
- *Gone* (2018), Director
- *The Hole* (2017), Director
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *4 O'Clock Club* (2012), series, Director
- *After Tomorrow* (2012), Writer, Director
- *Walking to Nairobi* (2005), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, Director
- *Doctors* (2000), series, Director
- *Holby City* (1999), series, Director
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Director

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