---
name: "Kate Saxon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kate-saxon"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T15:53:11.821823+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."
---

# Kate Saxon

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2012–2013
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1710082

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Endeavour*](https://film.one/tv/endeavour.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*Call the Midwife*](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Kate Saxon is a British director working in television, theatre and video games. She has directed three episodes of the ITV series *Endeavour*, including the 2023 finale, two episodes of *Call the Midwife* (series 8, 2019), episodes of *Grace*, *Silent Witness*, *EastEnders*, *Casualty* and *Doctors*.

She trained as an actor before directing theatre and opera, later moving into television via a BBC multi-camera training scheme on *EastEnders* in 2013. Saxon was Associate Director of Shared Experience theatre company from 2000 to 2012 and the original Chair of Stage Directors UK. She has also worked extensively as a performance capture and voice director on video games including *The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt*, *Alien: Isolation* and *Mafia III*.

Saxon was selected for the inaugural BAFTA Elevate group of female screen directors in 2017 and the Directors UK High End TV Drama Scheme.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, thesohoagency.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Endeavour* (2013), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/endeavour.md)
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Grace* (2021), series, Director
- *Endeavour* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/endeavour.md)
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Far from the Madding Crowd* (2010), Director
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Director
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Director
- *Cross Currents* (1935), as Miss Cruickshank

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