---
name: "Nick Leather"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nick-leather"
fi1m_id: "nick-leather"
imdb_id: "nm4152567"
tmdb_id: 1844852
wikidata_id: "Q113156927"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 December 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T18:15:59.841510+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."
---

# Nick Leather

## Identity

Nick Leather

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nick-leather
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nick-leather
- **IMDb ID:** nm4152567
- **TMDB ID:** 1844852
- **Wikidata ID:** Q113156927
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leather, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113156927, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4152567/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1844852

Writer. Born 1 December 1978 in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 December 1978, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leather, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113156927, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4152567/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1844852

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Murdered for Being Different*](https://film.one/film/murdered-for-being-different.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Nick Leather is a British playwright and screenwriter. He grew up in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, and began his career in theatre as a playwright at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, later serving as its Playwright-in-Residence.

Leather created the CBBC children's series *Rocket's Island* (2012–2015), which ran for three seasons and received BAFTA nominations for Best Children's Drama. His television credits include episodes of *Hollyoaks*, *Broken*, *The Worst Witch* and *All Creatures Great & Small*, as well as the single dramas *Murdered for Being Different* (2017) and *Mother's Day* (2018). He also wrote the series *The Control Room* (2022), *Suspicion* (2022) and *Nightsleeper* (2024).

*Murdered for Being Different* won the BAFTA and RTS awards for Best Single Drama. Leather has received additional recognition from the RTS and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, including for his work on *Hollyoaks*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Murdered for Being Different* (2017), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/murdered-for-being-different.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Nightsleeper* (2024), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *The Control Room* (2022), series, Creator
- *Suspicion* (2022), series, Writer
- *All Creatures Great & Small* (2020), series, Writer
- *Mother's Day* (2018), Writer
- *Murdered for Being Different* (2017), Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/murdered-for-being-different.md)
- *The Worst Witch* (2017), series, Screenplay, Director, Writer
- *Moving On* (2009), series, Writer

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