Biography
Martha Hillier is a British screenwriter and television producer. She read English at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1994. She began her career in production on series including EastEnders and Holby City before moving into writing.
Hillier has written multiple episodes of the ITV crime drama Vera (2011) across series 4 to 9 (2014–2019) and served as showrunner and executive producer on seasons 4 and 5 of The Last Kingdom (2020–2022). She wrote the screenplay for the spin-off film The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023) and contributed episodes to The Halcyon (2017) and Versailles (2018). She received Edgar Award nominations for her Vera episodes.
Recent projects include development work on a series about the Grimaldi dynasty and a contribution to the upcoming Harry Potter television series.
