Matthew Parkhill
Matthew Parkhill was raised in Leigh-On-Sea in Essex, where he had a fairly bucolic childhood. In his teens, he worked as a counselor at a summer camp for mentally disabled people, which inspired his debut novel "And I Loved Them Madly." When the book was optioned by a production company, he was hired to adapt it for the screen, despite having never written a screenplay before. Although the film never got off the ground, Parkhill discovered he had a talent for screenwriting and began producing short films. His 2003 feature debut, "Dot the I," was a well-received thriller starring Gael García Bernal, which had a number of unexpected twists and turns. He went on to write and direct several episodes of long-running British drama series "The Afternoon Play" before returning to the big screen with 2011's "The Caller," starring "True Blood"'s Stephen Moyer. This supernatural thriller about a young divorcee who receives mysterious threatening phone calls was a hit on the festival circuit. Parkhill currently has a number of projects in development, most notably a film about gay rugby player Gareth Thomas that has Mickey Rourke attached to star. He has had a long relationship with English actress and model Rachel Shelley, and the two have a daughter who was born in 2009.
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Matthew Parkhill
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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29% |
|
The Caller | Director | - | 2011 |
25% |
|
Dot the I |
Director, Writer, Screenwriter |
$306.2K | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El punto sobre la i |
Director, Writer |
- | 2003 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deep State |
Creator, Director |
2018-2019 |
55% | 51% | Deep State |
Creator, Director |
2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Rogue |
Creator, Executive Producer, Writer |
2013-2017 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Primeval | Writer | 2011 |