---
name: "Toby MacDonald"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/toby-macdonald"
fi1m_id: "toby-macdonald"
imdb_id: "nm0531954"
tmdb_id: 182328
wikidata_id: "Q18212733"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "19 August 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T00:19:42.775626+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."
---

# Toby MacDonald

## Identity

Toby MacDonald

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/toby-macdonald
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** toby-macdonald
- **IMDb ID:** nm0531954
- **TMDB ID:** 182328
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18212733
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18212733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531954/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/182328

Director. Born 19 August 1975 in Lewisham, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 19 August 1975, Lewisham, London, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18212733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531954/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/182328

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Toby MacDonald is a British film and television director. Born in 1975 in Lewisham, London, he began his career with the short film *Je t'aime John Wayne* (2000). The film received a BAFTA nomination for Best Short Film and won the European Film Academy Award for Best Short Film.

His feature debut was the comedy *Old Boys* (2018), a boarding-school reworking of *Cyrano de Bergerac*. He has directed episodes of television series including *Ragdoll* (2021) and *Extraordinary* (2023–2024).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Extraordinary* (2023), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/extraordinary.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Wild Cherry* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Fifteen-Love* (2023), series, Director
- *Extraordinary* (2023), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/extraordinary.md)
- *Ragdoll* (2021), series, Director
- *Old Boys* (2018), Director
- *Heavy Metal Drummer* (2005), Writer, Director
- *Cinema16: British Short Films* (2003), Director
- *Je t'aime John Wayne* (2000), Director
- *Cosmic Safari* (1999), Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2019: European Film Academy Young Audience Award (nominated), for *Old Boys*
- European Film Award for Best Short Film 2001: European Film Award for Best Short Film (won), for *Je t'aime John Wayne*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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