Russell T. Davies
Birth Name:
Stephen Russell Davies
Birth Place:
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Profession
Writer, Producer, Script department, Director, Actor, Soundtrack, Music department
Fast Facts
- Was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2008 for services to Drama
- 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
- 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: "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․"
- 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․"
- 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 AwardNominated
- 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 AwardWinner
- 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