---
name: "Paul Gay"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-gay"
fi1m_id: "paul-gay"
tmdb_id: 1221041
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T13:12:50.985483+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."
---

# Paul Gay

## Identity

Paul Gay

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-gay
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-gay
- **TMDB ID:** 1221041
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221041

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 writing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 72 (1), 2010s 72 (1), 2020s 68 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221041

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Vera*](https://film.one/tv/vera.md) (72)
- **Disney+:** [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Paul Gay is a British television director. He directed the opening two episodes of the Channel 4 series *Skins* in 2007, created by Bryan Elsley and starring Nicholas Hoult, Dev Patel and Joe Dempsie.

His subsequent credits include episodes of the ITV crime drama *Vera* from 2016 onwards, the BBC Three miniseries *My Left Nut* (2020), *Ridley* (2022) for West Road Pictures, and earlier series such as *Desperate Romantics* (2009), *Mister Eleven* (2009) and *The Whistleblowers* (2007). He also directed the 2013 *Skins* spin-off block *Pure*.

*Sources: theagency.co.uk, imdb.com, interrogate.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *Vera* (2011), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Forever Home* (2026), Fi1m 68, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/forever-home.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Forever Home* (2026), series, Creator — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/forever-home.md)
- *The Exterminating Angel* (2024), as Alberto Roc
- *My Left Nut* (2020), series, Director
- *Skins: Pure* (2013), Director
- *Vera* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Mister Eleven* (2009), series, Director
- *Desperate Romantics* (2009), series, Director
- *Skins* (2007), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)
- *Un ange passe* (1970), as Le docteur

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