---
name: "Ruba Nadda"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ruba-nadda"
fi1m_id: "ruba-nadda"
imdb_id: "nm0618779"
tmdb_id: 108072
wikidata_id: "Q7375761"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "6 December 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T11:50:17.760503+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."
---

# Ruba Nadda

## Identity

Ruba Nadda

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ruba-nadda
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ruba-nadda
- **IMDb ID:** nm0618779
- **TMDB ID:** 108072
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7375761
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruba_Nadda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7375761, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0618779/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108072

Director. Born 6 December 1972 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 6 December 1972, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- **Also known as:** Ruba Nada, Rubba Nada
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruba_Nadda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7375761, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0618779/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108072

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Hawaii Five-0*](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md) (65)

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

## Biography

Ruba Nadda (born 6 December 1972) is a Canadian film and television director. Born in Montreal, she studied literature at York University in Toronto and completed a film production course at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Nadda began her career with numerous award-winning short films before directing features including *Sabah* (2005), *Cairo Time* (2009), *Inescapable* (2012) and *October Gale* (2014). *Cairo Time* won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. She has directed episodes of television series including *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), *Killjoys* (2015), *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), *Arrow* (2012), *Riverdale* (2017), *Manifest* (2018) and *Magnum P.I.* (2018).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), Fi1m 65, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *Taken at a Basketball Game* (2025), Director
- *Gray* (2023), series, Director, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Alaska Daily* (2022), series, Director
- *So Help Me Todd* (2022), series, Director
- *Tom Swift* (2022), series, Director
- *Big Shot* (2021), series, Director
- *Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector* (2020), series, Director
- *Roswell, New Mexico* (2019), series, Director
- *Manifest* (2018), series, Director
- *Magnum P.I.* (2018), series, Director
- *Krypton* (2018), series, Director
- *Frankie Drake Mysteries* (2017), series, Director
- *Valor* (2017), series, Director
- *Taken* (2017), series, Director
- *Riverdale* (2017), series, Director
- *Killjoys* (2015), series, Director
- *October Gale* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Arrow* (2012), series, Director
- *Inescapable* (2012), Director, Screenplay
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)
- *Cairo Time* (2009), Director, Writer
- *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, Director
- *Becoming 13* (2006), Researcher
- *Sabah* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Aadan* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Damascus Nights* (1998), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Ruba Nadda](https://film.one/media/person/1311913/gallery-08a957366509.jpg) Ruba Nadda — Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Ruba_Nadda_at_CFC_25th_Anniversary_Celebration_in_LA.jpg/1280px-Ruba_Nadda_at_CFC_25th_Anniversary_Celebration_in_LA.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alumnus Charles Officer and Ruba Nadda at the CFC event in L.A. Photos by: Jesse Grant (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/1311913/gallery-26ced077fee2.jpg) Alumnus Charles Officer and Ruba Nadda at the CFC event in L.A. Photos by: Jesse Grant (2015) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/CFC_in_L.A._-_Honouring_John_Fawcett_and_Graeme_Manson_%2816739476837%29.jpg/1280px-CFC_in_L.A._-_Honouring_John_Fawcett_and_Graeme_Manson_%2816739476837%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ruba Nadda at the premiere of Inescapable, Toronto Film Festival 2012](https://film.one/media/person/1311913/gallery-211fae20c055.jpg) Ruba Nadda at the premiere of Inescapable, Toronto Film Festival 2012 — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Inescapable_15_%288092379216%29.jpg/1280px-Inescapable_15_%288092379216%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ruba Nadda at the premiere of Inescapable, Toronto Film Festival 2012 Perplexed by the retractable sharpie](https://film.one/media/person/1311913/gallery-233b12f0189e.jpg) Ruba Nadda at the premiere of Inescapable, Toronto Film Festival 2012 Perplexed by the retractable sharpie — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Inescapable_16_%288092378680%29.jpg/1280px-Inescapable_16_%288092378680%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ruba Nadda at the premiere of Inescapable, Toronto Film Festival 2012](https://film.one/media/person/1311913/gallery-289651f86f3c.jpg) Ruba Nadda at the premiere of Inescapable, Toronto Film Festival 2012 — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Inescapable_19_%288092373615%29.jpg/1280px-Inescapable_19_%288092373615%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ruba Nadda (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/1311913/gallery-f4e3626d60fb.jpg) Ruba Nadda (2010) — WAMC's The Roundtable, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Ruba_Nadda_WAMC_1.jpg/1280px-Ruba_Nadda_WAMC_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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