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name: "Marianne Elliott"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "27 December 1966"
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updated: "2026-10-04T07:47:07.734883+00:00"
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# Marianne Elliott

## Identity

Marianne Elliott

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marianne-elliott
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marianne-elliott
- **IMDb ID:** nm2765738
- **TMDB ID:** 1303328
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6762215
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Elliott, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6762215, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2765738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1303328

Director. Born 27 December 1966 in Westminster, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 27 December 1966, Westminster, London, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Elliott, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6762215, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2765738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1303328

## Coming up

- *National Theatre Live: West Side Story* (2028-01-01), Co-Director

## Biography

Marianne Elliott is a British theatre director and producer. Born on 27 December 1966 in Westminster, London, she is the daughter of director Michael Elliott and actress Rosalind Knight. She trained at Hull University and began her career in theatre.

Elliott is known for her West End and Broadway productions, including *War Horse* (2007), *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time* (2012), and revivals of *Angels in America* (2017). She directed two episodes of the BBC series *Alan Bennett's Talking Heads* (2020). Her feature film directorial debut was *The Salt Path* (2024). She was appointed OBE in 2018 for services to theatre.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Alan Bennett's Talking Heads* (2020), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/alan-bennetts-talking-heads.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *National Theatre Live: West Side Story* (2028), Co-Director
- *National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses* (2026), Director
- *The Salt Path* (2025), as (uncredited) · Director, Executive Producer
- *Alan Bennett's Talking Heads* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/alan-bennetts-talking-heads.md)
- *National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika* (2017), Director
- *National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches* (2017), Director
- *National Theatre Live: War Horse* (2014), Director
- *The Light Princess* (2014), Director
- *National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time* (2012), Director
- *National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well* (2009), Director
- *The Long Day Closes* (1992), Casting Assistant

## Gallery

- ![Marianne Elliott](https://film.one/media/person/5532452/gallery-ad423890bc95.jpg) Marianne Elliott — The Tony Awards, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Marianne_elliott_2022_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marianne Elliott at the 75th Tony Awards in June 2022](https://film.one/media/person/5532452/gallery-fa731bea893b.jpg) Marianne Elliott at the 75th Tony Awards in June 2022 — The Tony Awards, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Marianne_elliott_2022_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marianne Elliott at the 75th Tony Awards in June 2022](https://film.one/media/person/5532452/gallery-c9187997be56.jpg) Marianne Elliott at the 75th Tony Awards in June 2022 — The Tony Awards, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Marianne_elliott_2022_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won

- Drama League Award 2022: Drama League Award (won)
- Drama League Award 2020: Drama League Award (won)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 2015: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (won)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 2011: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (won)

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

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