
Elliot Hegarty
He has been twice nominated for a BAFTA award - in 2008 and again in 2018. He won Best Comedy at the British Comedy Awards.
He won an International Emmy in 2025, in Best Drama for Rivals.
He is currently working as Lead Director and Executive Producer on Season 2 of Rivals, out in 2026.
His film and TV credits include Rivals starring David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Danny Dyer and Katherine Parkinson for Disney+, Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis for Apple TV which won 7 Emmys in 2021, the highly-acclaimed Cheaters for BBC1, two film adaptations of David Walliams' books - The Midnight Gang with Alan Davies and Haydn Gwynne and Grandpa's Great Escape with Tom Courtenay and Jennifer Saunders. He also directed the first block of Season 3 of Trying for Apple TV, Lizzie and Sarah by Julia Davis, Lovesick on Netflix, Star Stories, The Kevin Bishop Show, FM, Moving Wallpaper, Great Night Out and Jack Whitehall's TV series - Bad Education. In the US Elliot has directed over 35 episodes of TV across a broad range of Network comedies such as Black-ish, The Real O'Neals, Mr. Sunshine, The Middle, Suburgatory, Selfie, Trophy Wife, Family Tools and Mixology.
His two feature film credits are The Bad Education Movie and the 2000 film County Kilburn starring Ciarán McMenamin, a film he also wrote.
Elliot also directs commercials. The first three ads he directed were for Club 18–30, for which he won eight awards, including a Silver and two Bronzes at the British Television Advertising awards and a Bronze Lion at Cannes. He was nominated as Best New Director at the British Television Advertising Craft awards in 2000 and selected for the prestigious New Directors' Showcase in Cannes 2001. He has worked with such clients as Guinness, MFI, KFC, Toyota, Npower, Enterprise, Hyundai and the Daily Telegraph.
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