Part of Emmys 2025 featuring Noah Wyle, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Katherine LaNasa, and Seth Rogen.
Rise to Fame
He got the iBoy book in 2012, spent years watching the project fall apart and get rebuilt, and ended up directing Netflix's first-ever UK production. That debut signaled what he was after: genre films with actual craft behind the atmosphere. I See You (2019), a structural-trick thriller with Helen Hunt, confirmed it. He's been working in the space between horror, thriller, and neo-noir long enough to call it a specialty.
In the Spotlight
Slow Horses Season 4 (2024) earned a perfect 100% Tomatometer from 45 reviews. At the 2025 Emmys, he won Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series over Severance. He directed all of Season 4, and the show's critical position is largely his to own. The Emmys don't usually favor British spy thrillers over glossy American prestige drama. This time they did.
Side Notes
He originally wanted to be a professional musician, and didn't pivot to filmmaking until his late teens. That background shows. His films move on atmosphere more than plot mechanics, which explains how the same director can do a Netflix superhero film (iBoy), a vampire neo-noir (Night Teeth), and a prestige spy show (Slow Horses) and have them all feel like they came from the same place.