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name: "Mark Tonderai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-tonderai"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "16 July 1974"
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average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T10:47:05.646060+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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# Mark Tonderai

Director. Born 16 July 1974 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 16 July 1974, London, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tonderai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294263, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0867127/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86482

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md) (78)

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## Biography

Mark Tonderai is a British-Zimbabwean film and television director, writer and former disc jockey. Born in London in 1974 and raised in Zimbabwe, he studied architecture before entering radio, where he hosted *The Mark Tonderai Show* on BBC Radio 1.

He co-founded the London-based production company Shona Productions with his wife Zoe Stewart. Tonderai began directing with the feature *Hush* (2008) and went on to helm *House at the End of the Street* (2012) and *Spell* (2020). His television credits include directing all ten episodes of *The Five* (2016) and multiple episodes of *Doctor Who* (2018 and 2023), *Gotham*, *Lucifer*, *Locke & Key* and *Foundation*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tardis.fandom.com, marktonderai.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (2005), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *Virdee* (2025), series, Director
- *Will Trent* (2023), series, Director
- *Fire Country* (2022), series, Director
- *Foundation* (2021), series, Director
- *The Mysterious Benedict Society* (2021), series, Director
- *Big Sky* (2020), series, Director
- *Spell* (2020), "B" Camera Operator, Director
- *Locke & Key* (2020), series, Director
- *Daybreak* (2019), series, Director
- *Pearson* (2019), series, Director
- *L.A.'s Finest* (2019), series, Director
- *The Passage* (2019), series, Director
- *Nightflyers* (2018), series, Director
- *Tell Me a Story* (2018), series, Director
- *Castle Rock* (2018), series, Director
- *Impulse* (2018), series, Director
- *Black Lightning* (2018), series, Director
- *Day of the Dead: Bloodline* (2017), Writer
- *Paranoid* (2016), series, Director
- *The Five* (2016), series, Director
- *Lucifer* (2016), series, Director
- *Blindspot* (2015), series, Director
- *12 Monkeys* (2015), series, Director
- *Gotham* (2014), series, Director
- *Stalkers* (2013), Director
- *House at the End of the Street* (2012), Director
- *Hush* (2008), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *Sarah Smile* (2005), Writer, Director
- *The Four Feathers* (2002), as Egyptian Orderly
- *Candy Bar Kid* (2002), as Man
- *Dog Eat Dog* (2001), Rooster, Writer
- *Kevin & Perry Go Large* (2000), as Record Store Boss
- *Uncut Funk* (1999), series, Various, Director
- *Friday Night's All Wright* (1998), series, Director
- *The Bleed*, Writer
- *The Degrees of Pain*, Writer

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