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name: "Kate McCullough"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T10:36:07.265606+00:00"
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# Kate McCullough

Cinematographer. Born in Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_McCullough, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49756212, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1737412/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1638037

## Coming up

- *The Lost Children of Tuam* (2026-09-25), Director of Photography
- *A Prayer for the Dying* (2026-10-09), Director of Photography

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Normal People*](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md) (84)

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## Biography

Kate McCullough is an Irish cinematographer. She trained at the Łódź Film School in Poland and returned to Ireland in 2008. She began her career shooting documentaries, including *His & Hers* (2010), for which she shared a Sundance World Cinema Cinematography Award.

McCullough has worked on narrative projects including six episodes of the television series *Normal People* (2020) and the feature films *Arracht* (2019), *The Quiet Girl* (2022) and *The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry* (2023). For *The Quiet Girl* she received the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer and an IFTA award; she also won an IFTA for *Normal People*.

*Sources: imdb.com, britishcinematographer.co.uk, illuminatrixdops.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Normal People* (2020), Fi1m 84, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *A Prayer for the Dying* (2026), Director of Photography
- *The Lost Children of Tuam* (2026), Director of Photography
- *Paper Plane* (2026), Director of Photography
- *The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry* (2023), Director of Photography
- *The Quiet Girl* (2022), Director of Photography
- *Arracht* (2021), Director of Photography
- *A Legacy of Horses* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Normal People* (2020), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)
- *Reality Baby* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Blood* (2018), series, Director of Photography
- *I, Dolours* (2018), Cinematography
- *Frida Think* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Users* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Citizen Lane* (2018), Director of Photography
- *The Farthest* (2018), Camera Operator
- *Jaha's Promise* (2017), Director of Photography
- *The Moderators* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Loving Lorna* (2017), Director of Photography
- *It's Not Yet Dark* (2016), Director of Photography
- *My Name Is Emily* (2016), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Mom and Me* (2015), Director of Photography
- *They Shoot People* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Seventh Son* (2014), Director of Photography
- *The Last Days of Peter Bergmann* (2013), Director of Photography
- *Novena* (2013), Camera Operator
- *Desert Tide* (2012), Creative Director
- *Cluck* (2011), Director of Photography
- *Hold on Tight* (2011), Director of Photography
- *Voices from the Grave* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Snap* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Jimmy Murakami: Non-Alien* (2010), Additional Camera
- *His & Hers* (2009), Director of Photography
- *A Simple Piece of Cloth* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Safe and Silent*, Director of Photography

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- European Film Award for Best Cinematographer 2022: European Film Award for Best Cinematographer (won), for *The Quiet Girl*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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