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Russell T. Davies Biography

Birth Name:Stephen Russell Davies

Birth Place:Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Profession Writer, Producer, Script department, Director, Actor, Soundtrack, Music department

Fast Facts

  • Won a Dennis Potter Award and a BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Series for "Doctor Who" in 2006
  • Won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form for "Doctor Who" in 2010
  • Won three SFX Awards, one for "Torchwood" in 2010 and two for "Doctor Who" in 2005 and 2008
  • Was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2008 for services to Drama
  • Graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature in 1984
  • He started out in theater, but took a Director's Course at the BBC with the intention of getting into television
  • His big production break came with the children's drama show "Dark Season," which featured a young Kate Winslett
  • Quote: "Writing isn't just a job that stops at six-thirty․․․It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, obsessive, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing․ There's not the writer and then me; there's just me․ All of my life connects to the writing․"
  • Quote: "I've put myself in a situation of having to engage with politics, just by being alive as a gay man in the 20th century․․․I can't imagine writing and not including what you think about the world․ That's what writing is, it's what being alive is․"
  • Best known as a writer and executive producer of "Doctor Who" and the creator and executive producer of "Torchwood," "The Sarah Jane Adventures," and the UK version of "Queer as Folk․"

Awards

  • 1993BAFTA TV Award-Best Children's Programme (Fiction): nominated
  • 1996BAFTA Children's Award-Best Drama: nominated
  • 1997BAFTA Children's Award-Best Drama: winner
  • 2002BAFTA TV Award-Best Drama Serial: nominated
  • 2004BAFTA TV Award-Best Drama Serial: nominated
  • 2004RTS Television Award-Best Writer: nominated
  • 2005SFX Award-Best TV Episode: winner
  • 2006BAFTA TV Award-Best Drama Series: winner
  • 2006BAFTA TV Award-Best Writer: nominated
  • 2006BAFTA Cymru Award-Best Screenwriter (Yr Awdur Gorau Ar Gyfer Y Sgrin): nominated
  • 2006Broadcasting Press Guild Award-Best Drama Series: nominated
  • 2006Writer's Award-: nominated
  • 2006TV Quick Award-Best Loved Drama: winner
  • 2006TV Quick Award-Best Loved Drama: winner
  • 2007BAFTA Cymru Award-Best Screenwriter (Yr Awdur Gorau Ar Gyfer Y Sgrin): winner
  • 2007Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
  • 2007SFX Award-Best TV Episode: nominated
  • 2007TRIC Award-TV Drama Programme: nominated
  • 2007Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Best TV Soap/Series: winner
  • 2007Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Soap/Series (TV): winner
  • 2008SFX Award-Best TV Episode: winner
  • 2008TV Quick Award-Best Loved Drama: nominated
  • 2008TV Quick Award-Best Loved Drama: winner
  • 2008TRIC Award-TV Drama Programme: nominated
  • 2009BAFTA TV Award-Best Writer: nominated
  • 2009BAFTA TV Award-Best Drama Series: nominated
  • 2009BAFTA Cymru Award-Best Screenwriter (Yr Awdur Gorau Ar Gyfer Y Sgrin): winner
  • 2009Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
  • 2009Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Television Drama Series: nominated
  • 2010BAFTA Cymru Award-Best Screenwriter (Yr Awdur Gorau Ar Gyfer Y Sgrin): nominated
  • 2010Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
  • 2010Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
  • 2010Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: winner
  • 2010SFX Award-Best TV Episode: nominated
  • 2010SFX Award-Best TV Episode: nominated
  • 2010SFX Award-Best TV Episode: winner
  • 2010TV Quick Award-Best Drama Series: nominated
  • 2010TRIC Award-TV Drama Programme: winner
  • 2016BAFTA Television Craft Award-Writer: Drama: winner
  • 2016Innovation in Broadcasting Award-: winner
  • 2016RTS Television Award-Writer - Drama: nominated
  • 2019BAFTA TV Award-Best Mini-Series: nominated
  • 2019BAFTA Cymru Award-Best Writer: winner
  • 2019BAFTA Television Craft Award-Writer: Drama: nominated
  • 2019Broadcast Award-Best Drama Series or Serial: winner
  • 2019Broadcasting Press Guild Award-Best Writer: winner
  • 2019Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special: nominated
  • 2019RTS Television Award-Writer - Drama: nominated
  • 2019South Bank Sky Arts Award-TV Drama: winner
  • 2019Televisual Bulldog Award-Best Drama One-Off or Serial: winner
  • 2019USC Scripter Award-Television: winner
  • 2019Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Best Short Form TV Drama: winner
  • 2020Broadcasting Press Guild Award-Best Writer: nominated
  • 2021Rockie Award-Program of the Year: winner
  • 2021Gotham Independent Film Award-Breakthrough Series - Longform: nominated
  • 2021Venice TV Award-Best TV Series: winner
  • 2021Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award-Best Long Form TV Drama: winner
  • 2022BAFTA TV Award-Writer, Drama: nominated
  • 2022BAFTA TV Award-Mini-Series: nominated
  • 2022Broadcasting Press Guild Award-Best Writer: winner
  • 2022Independent Spirit Award-Best New Scripted Series: nominated
  • 2022RTS Television Award-Writer - Drama: winner
  • 2023BAFTA Cymru Award-Best Writer: winner
  • 2024BAFTA Cymru Award-Best Writer: nominated
  • 2024Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
  • 2024Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
  • 2024Royal Television Society Midlands Award-Scripted: winner
  • 2025Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
  • 2025Hugo-Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form: nominated
  • 2025Bradbury Award-Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: nominated