---
name: "Sally Abbott"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sally-abbott"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T15:53:11.926948+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."
---

# Sally Abbott

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2011–2012
- **Frequently works with:** [Christiana Ebohon-Green](https://film.one/person/christiana-ebohon-green.md), [Claire Winyard](https://film.one/person/claire-winyard.md), [Delyth Thomas](https://film.one/person/delyth-thomas.md), [Thaddeus O'Sullivan](https://film.one/person/thaddeus-osullivan.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Abbott, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62861093, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1590982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2422378

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Call the Midwife*](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md) (80)
- **Apple TV:** [*Vera*](https://film.one/tv/vera.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Sally Abbott is a British screenwriter, playwright and former theatre producer. She spent eighteen years working in theatre as a producer, young people's director and trainer at venues and organisations including Contact Theatre, English Touring Theatre, Liverpool's Everyman Theatre and the National Association of Youth Theatres. She trained on the BBC Writers Academy with her spec script *Camp Fear* and subsequently wrote episodes for the BBC continuing dramas *Doctors*, *EastEnders*, *Casualty* and *Holby City*.

Her television credits include multiple episodes of *Call the Midwife* and *Vera*, one episode of *Death in Paradise* (2019), and she created and wrote for the BBC crime drama *The Coroner* (2015–2016). She has also contributed to the writing team of the Channel 5 thriller series *Missed Call* (2026).

Abbott has returned to theatre as a playwright. Her stage works include the monologue *Borough Market, One Saturday* (2017, co-written with Michael Begley) and Frantic Assembly's *I Think We Are Alone* (2020).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Call the Midwife* (2012), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Vera* (2011), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Missed Call* (2026), series, Writer
- *The Coroner* (2015), series, Writer
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, Writer
- *Vera* (2011), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)

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