Stephen Woolfenden
Born: 25th April 1966 (as Stephen Mark Woolfenden)
Episodes Broadcast: 2013
Stephen Woolfenden was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and
was a fan of Doctor Who during Jon Pertwee's time as the Third
Doctor. During his teenaged years, he was a member of the National Youth
Theatre. Woolfenden's television career began in the mid-Eighties, when
he initially worked as a floor runner but also found opportunities as a
trainee assistant director on shows like John Silver's Return To
Treasure Island. During the Nineties, he was an assistant director
on a variety of television shows like Murder Most Horrid and the
Neil Gaiman co-creation Neverwhere. Woolfenden also worked on
movies like The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A
Mountain and Shine. In 1999, he married camera operator Chyna
Thomson; they would have two children.
Following the turn of the century, Woolfenden continued to work as an
assistant director on programmes including Happiness and State
Of Play, and he was a second unit director on the last four Harry
Potter movies. Around the middle of the decade, however, he became a
fully-fledged television director in his own right, initially working on
the children's series The Mysti Show before moving on to projects
such as Echo Beach and Trinity. In 2013, Woolfenden was
reunited with Gaiman on Nightmare In
Silver, a Doctor Who adventure for Matt Smith's Eleventh
Doctor which revamped the Cybermen. Amongst his other directorial
credits were episodes of DCI Banks, Beowulf: Return To The
Shieldlands and Poldark; he was the lead director on
Outlander for its fifth season. Woolfenden also served as a
second unit director on movies like Pokémon: Detective
Pikachu and the Fantastic Beasts series. His television work
during the Twenties included Fate: The Winx Saga.
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