---
name: "Jess Brittain"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jess-brittain"
fi1m_id: "jess-brittain"
tmdb_id: 2102378
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-22T03:13:51.825499+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."
---

# Jess Brittain

## Identity

Jess Brittain

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jess-brittain
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jess-brittain
- **TMDB ID:** 2102378
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2102378

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 72 (1), 2020s 73 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2102378

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Essex Serpent*](https://film.one/tv/the-essex-serpent.md) (73)
- **Disney+:** [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Jess Brittain is a British television writer and creator. She is the daughter of Scottish television writer and Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley. After her teenage years in Bristol, she studied English literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her first professional writing credits were for the Channel 4 series Skins, for which she had contributed informally as a teenager; she joined the writers' room in 2012 and wrote four episodes across the sixth and seventh series.

Brittain created, wrote and produced the BBC Three thriller series Clique (2017–2018), writing all twelve episodes across two seasons. She has also written episodes of Eden (2021) and The Essex Serpent (2022), and the Skins tie-in novel Skins: Summer Holiday (2011).

*Sources: wikimili.com, en.wikipedia.org, independenttalent.com, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Essex Serpent* (2022), Fi1m 73, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-essex-serpent.md)
- *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *The Essex Serpent* (2022), series, Writer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-essex-serpent.md)
- *Eden* (2021), series, Writer
- *Clique* (2017), series, Writer, Creator
- *Skins: Fire* (2013), Writer
- *Skins* (2007), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

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