Jennifer Perrott
Director
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Jennifer Perrott is an award-winning director for television and film, who moved to the UK to live and work after beginning her career in Australia. She most recently directed RAIN DOGS, starring Daisy May Cooper for Sid Gentle/BBC. The series was extremely well received, with Time Magazine naming it the 4th best show of 2023.
Prior to this Jennifer directed the new David Farr drama, THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS for Snowed-In/ Route 24/Sky. She also directed episodes of Sally Wainwright’s acclaimed GENTLEMAN JACK (BBC1/HBO), which has attracted BAFTA TV Award nominations for Best Drama and Leading Actress for star Suranne Jones at this year’s event.
Jennifer’s primetime directing debut for UK television was on Jodie Whittaker’s groundbreaking first season of BBC’s DOCTOR WHO, for showrunner Chris Chibnall. Jennifer’s work on episodes ‘Kerblam’ and ‘The Tsuranga Condundrum’ has been widely acclaimed by critics and fans alike.
Jennifer came to international attention with her much hailed 35mm short film THE RAVENS, starring Sarah Snook (Succession, HBO), which Jennifer wrote and directed based on her own family’s experience with PTSD suffered by military servicemen.
THE RAVENS screened at over 70 festivals, winning Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Heartland Film Festival (USA), among many other awards, and earned Jennifer nominations at both the Australian Directors’ Guild and Australian Writers’ Guild Awards. (THE RAVENS’ full list of screenings and festival awards can be found here: http://www.theravens.com.au).
In Australia, Jennifer’s directing credits include long-running dramedy OFFSPRING, Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s NEWTON’S LAW, and SECRET BRIDESMAID’S BUSINESS starring Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).
Jennifer attended Amsterdam’s prestigious Binger Lab as writer/director with her feature WINTER SUN, also a semi-finalist in the International BlueCat Screenplay competition.
Jennifer began her career as an assistant editor, later graduating from the Directing course at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) with a communications degree in film theory.
Growing up on Australia’s wild and remote south-east coast, and later living for a decade in The Netherlands, Monaco, France and now England, has taught Jennifer a love for and fascination with nature and landscape, often a featured signature of her visual work.
RAIN DOGS
Craig Mathieson, The Sydney Morning Herald
The first essential new series of 2023, this unfiltered, revelatory comic-drama is the strongest TV example of London calling since Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You.
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone
Rain Dogs’ Is One of the Most Surprising New Shows of the Year.
Judy Berman, Time Magazine
HBO’s Magnificently Dark Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV.
Coleman Spilde, The Daily Beast
This Biting, Brilliant Show Will Be HBO’s Next Sleeper Hit.
Judy Berman, Time Magazine
One of the Best TV Shows of 2023 So Far.
GENTLEMAN JACK
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian
Gentleman Jack is a true TV marvel – romantic, raw and totally radical.
Ed Cumming, Independent
A confident, smart period drama.
James Poniewozik, The New York Times
[The series] offers an engrossing 19th-century comedy of social mores and upends the heteronormative assumptions of such stories.
Suzi Feay, Financial Times
Gentleman Jack is a sparkling delight.
Carol Midgley, The Times
A powerhouse performance by Jones.
DOCTOR WHO Episode 5 – The Tsuranga Conundrum
Michael Horgan, The Telegraph
The best episode of the new-look series so far.
DOCTOR WHO Episode 7 – Kerblam!
Ed Power, The Independent
This is Doctor Who at its finely-teased best….Just what the Doctor ordered.
Morgan Jeffery, Digital Spy
'Kerblam!' remains… a near-perfect package, blending action, scares, and just a dash of satire to great effect.
Jennifer is also represented by Amanda Burnett, Milorad Dragicevic, Anna Flickinger at UTA in the US.
Television
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
RAIN DOGS 2022 - 2023 | Sid Gentle/BBC 1 | Director. |
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS 2021 | Sky/Snowed-In Productions/ Route 24 | Director. |
TIES THAT BIND 2020 | Seven Studios/C4 | Director. |
GENTLEMAN JACK 2018 - 2019 | Lookout Point/BBC 1/HBO | Director. 2 x 60'. |
DOCTOR WHO 2017 - 2018 | BBC 1 | Director, 2 x 60' |
NEWTON'S LAW 2016 | ABC Drama / Every Cloud Productions | Director, 2 x 60'. Drama. |
OFFSPRING SERIES 4 2013 | Southern Star/Channel 10 Australia | Director, 2 x 60'. Drama. |
STACKED 2008 | Channel 4 | Director, 1 x 30'. Comedy drama, with Karen Gillan. |
ECHO BEACH 2007 | Kudos Productions/ ITV | Director, 3 x 30'. |
THE CHASE 2006 | Rollem productions/ BBC | Director, 2 x 60'. |
HOLLYOAKS 2005 | Mersey TV/ Channel 4 | Director, 2 x 30'. |
DOCTORS 2005 | BBC1 | Director, 6 x 30'. |
HOLLYOAKS 2004 | Mersey TV/ Channel 4 | Director, 2 x 30'. |
Short Films
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
THE RAVENS 2017 | Iluka Films | Writer and Director. |
THE EXAMPLE 2011 | Iluka Films/ Directors UK/ Arri | Director. |
FLIGHT 2005 | UK Film Council | Digital Short. |
TITUS THE GREAT 2001 | Short film. | |
SCAR STORIES 2001 | Short film. | |
A MATTER OF LIFE 2001 | Short film. | |
BREATHE 2000 | Short film. |