---
name: "Philippa Langdale"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/philippa-langdale"
fi1m_id: "philippa-langdale"
imdb_id: "nm0486010"
tmdb_id: 1547965
wikidata_id: "Q106571514"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:06:42.961922+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."
---

# Philippa Langdale

## Identity

Philippa Langdale

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/philippa-langdale
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** philippa-langdale
- **IMDb ID:** nm0486010
- **TMDB ID:** 1547965
- **Wikidata ID:** Q106571514
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106571514, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486010/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1547965

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106571514, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486010/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1547965

## Streaming the US now

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

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

## Biography

Philippa Langdale is a British television director. She began directing in the late 1970s and early 1980s on series including *Grange Hill*, *EastEnders*, *The Bill* and *Casualty*. She later directed episodes of *Pulling Moves* and the television films *The Vice* (1999) and *Lloyd & Hill* (2001).

Her credits include multiple episodes of *Waking the Dead* (2004–2008), *Skins* (series 4 and 5, 2010–2011), *Dates* (2013), *Dickensian* (2015–2016), *Class* (2016), *Harlots* (2018), *A Discovery of Witches* (2021) and *The Capture* (2022). She has also directed episodes of *Breathless*, *Starlings*, *Critical*, *Living the Dream* and *The Body Farm*.

Recent and forthcoming work includes directing on *Out There* (2025) and *Unchosen* (2026).

*Sources: unitedagents.co.uk, imdb.com, channel4.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Unchosen* (2026), series, Director
- *A Discovery of Witches* (2018), series, Director
- *Class* (2016), series, Director
- *Dickensian* (2015), series, Director
- *Critical* (2015), series, Director
- *Breathless* (2013), series, Director
- *Dates* (2013), series, Director
- *Skins* (2007), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)
- *Lloyd & Hill* (2003), Director
- *Trust* (2003), series, Director
- *The Vice* (1999), series, Director
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Director

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