--- name: "Tyne Rafaeli" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tyne-rafaeli" fi1m_id: "tyne-rafaeli" imdb_id: "nm1544562" tmdb_id: 113238 wikidata_id: "Q129169314" roles: ["Director"] reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T21:02:38.775423+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." --- # Tyne Rafaeli ## Identity Tyne Rafaeli - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tyne-rafaeli - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** tyne-rafaeli - **IMDb ID:** nm1544562 - **TMDB ID:** 113238 - **Wikidata ID:** Q129169314 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne_Rafaeli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129169314, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1544562/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113238 Director. Born in London, England, United Kingdom. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne_Rafaeli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129169314, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1544562/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113238 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The Beast in Me*](https://film.one/tv/the-beast-in-me.md) (67) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Tyne Rafaeli > Tyne Rafaeli brings an actor-centred approach to intimate drama. Her work on *The Beast in Me* helps sustain its unease, but the series also shows how little careful direction can do once a central relationship stops developing. The tension in *The Beast in Me* (2025) comes from watching Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys test one another. The directors favour psychological unease over getting on with the investigation, allowing the encounters between the leads to carry the series. We felt uneasy watching them together because Lyle Vincent’s cinematography gives those encounters the threatening feel of a horror film. Rafaeli directed two episodes; Lila Neugebauer and Antonio Campos also direct. We cannot assign every effective choice to her, but the attention to actors fits her theatre work. Before television, Rafaeli established herself directing new plays, with *Usual Girls* (2018) an important early production. She moved into television from 2020 while continuing to direct plays, including *Epiphany* (2022) and *The Coast Starlight* (2023). In rehearsal she works physically and collaboratively with actors, exploring character through the text. That is useful preparation for scenes in which two performers must keep an audience uncertain about what they want from each other. The limitation of *The Beast in Me* is that its central pair keep circling after their relationship has stopped developing. Loren Weeks’s production design contributes to a glossy finish that makes the threat feel too comfortably packaged. Once the writing runs short, that polish leaves us watching carefully presented encounters without much reason to expect anything new from them. Rafaeli’s stage work offers a reason to look beyond that particular frustration. The comedy and loss of *Epiphany*, and the lively ensemble staging of *The Coast Starlight*, suggest possibilities that this prolonged television stand-off does not much explore. We would welcome a screen production that gave her more of that tonal variety to manage. For *The Beast in Me*, go for Danes and Rhys, and allow for the stretches when even they need something else to do. ## Biography Tyne Rafaeli is a British-American director based in New York. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and at Columbia University. She began her career in theatre as an associate director to Bartlett Sher on Broadway productions including *The Bridges of Madison County* (2014), *The King and I* (2015) and *Fiddler on the Roof* (2015). She has directed numerous off-Broadway and regional stage productions, receiving Drama Desk and Drama League Award nominations for works such as *Usual Girls*, *Selling Kabul* and *Becoming Eve*. Rafaeli has directed episodes of television series including *The Good Fight* (2021–2022), *Single Drunk Female* (2023), *Evil* (2024), *Elsbeth* (2024), *Tell Me Lies* (2024–2026) and *Tracker* (2025). She directed two episodes of the Netflix miniseries *The Beast in Me* (2025). She also directs audio and podcast series. *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Beast in Me* (2025), Fi1m 67, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-beast-in-me.md) ## Complete filmography (8) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Beast in Me* (2025), series, Director — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-beast-in-me.md) - *Elsbeth* (2024), series, Director - *Tracker* (2024), series, Director - *Tell Me Lies* (2022), series, Director - *Evil* (2019), series, Director - *The Good Fight* (2017), series, Director - *The Fourth Kind* (2009), as Sarah Fisher - *Holy Water* (2009), as Emily Murray --- © 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/tyne-rafaeli