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name: "Sarah Esdaile"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sarah-esdaile"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T16:00:31.144148+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."
---

# Sarah Esdaile

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10744752/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3414081

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Sarah Esdaile is a British television and theatre director. She graduated in English and Drama from Goldsmiths College in 1991 and worked with producers and theatres including Bill Kenwright, Robert Fox and Theatre Royal Brighton. In 1996 she was selected for the first Directors’ Course at the National Theatre Studio and was later Associate Director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Esdaile moved into television directing in 2019. Her credits include episodes of *Call the Midwife* (2021–2026), *EastEnders* (2019–2022), *The Chelsea Detective* (2023) and *Casualty* (2025–2026).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Casualty* (1986), series, Director

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