---
name: "Rachel Tunnard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rachel-tunnard"
fi1m_id: "rachel-tunnard"
imdb_id: "nm2074041"
tmdb_id: 1496470
wikidata_id: "Q63432532"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 December 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T22:36:24.404016+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."
---

# Rachel Tunnard

## Identity

Rachel Tunnard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rachel-tunnard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rachel-tunnard
- **IMDb ID:** nm2074041
- **TMDB ID:** 1496470
- **Wikidata ID:** Q63432532
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63432532, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2074041/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1496470

Editor. Born 1 December 1979 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 December 1979, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 writing, 2 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 71 (2), 2020s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63432532, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2074041/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1496470

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget*](https://film.one/film/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget.md) (64)

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

## Biography

Rachel Tunnard is a British editor, writer and director. She was born in Sheffield in 1979 and studied film and theatre at the University of Bristol.

She began her career as an editor, with credits including *Skeletons* (2010) and *Shell* (2012). Her debut feature as writer and director, *Adult Life Skills* (2016), was nominated for six British Independent Film Awards and won two, including Best Debut Screenwriter. It also received the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Tunnard wrote *Military Wives* (2020) and co-wrote the screenplay for *Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget* (2023). Her short film *Emotional Fusebox* (2014) was nominated for a BAFTA.

*Sources: imdb.com, casarotto.co.uk, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Wrote (1)

- *Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget* (2023), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget.md)

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

- *Shell* (2013), Fi1m 72, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/shell.md)
- *Skeletons* (2010), Fi1m 70, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/skeletons.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget* (2023), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget.md)
- *Military Wives* (2020), Writer
- *Adult Life Skills* (2016), Writer, Editor, Director
- *Emotional Fusebox* (2014), Director, Editor, Writer
- *Shell* (2013), Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/shell.md)
- *The Rule of Thumb* (2012), Editor
- *Fixing Luka* (2011), Editor
- *The Send Off* (2011), Editor
- *Skeletons* (2010), Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/skeletons.md)
- *I'll Be Right Here* (2010), Editor
- *Native Son* (2010), Editor
- *PS Your Mystery Sender* (2010), Editor
- *Little Ashes* (2008), Editor
- *Kill Kill Faster Faster* (2008), Editor
- *A Woman in Winter* (2007), Editor

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/rachel-tunnard