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Nimer Rashed is a British film, television and video games writer and director, as well as former child actor, best known for directing the Netflix adaptations Fool Me Once, Missing You and Run Away of the respective Harlan Coben novels.
Early life
[edit]As a child, Rashed worked as an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company.[1] with roles in the LWT drama Forever Green, and the period drama Impromptu.[2][3] In 2006, he won The Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award at the International Emmy Awards for his original script "The Great McGinty"[4]
Directing
[edit]Rashed began his directing career in 2008 with the short film Baghdad Express,[5] featuring fellow Merchant Taylors' alumnus Riz Ahmed. He subsequently directed several other short films, including Touch, for which he was awarded the Virgin Media Shorts Grand Prize, judged by Shane Meadows and David Tennant.[6] [7]
Rashed then trained as a director as part of the BBC Writersroom New Directors' Scheme.[8]. After successfully applying to Directors UK and Creative England's High-End TV Drama Programme,[9] he worked as 2nd Unit Director on Mike Bartlett's Press, as well as on NBC's The Capture and Amazon's The Feed, and was named on the BBC New Talent Hotlist.[10] During this time, Rashed also directed episodes of Doctors,[11] Holby City,[12] Casualty,[13] EastEnders[14] and The Good Karma Hospital.[15]
In 2023, it was announced that Rashed would be a director on Fool Me Once, a Netflix adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel of the same name, starring Richard Armitage, Michelle Keegan and Joanna Lumley.[16][17][18][19] He was subsequently signed on to direct the further adaptations, Missing You, starring Rosalind Eleazar, and Run Away, starring James Nesbitt and Minnie Driver, serving as Lead Director on the latter.[20][21][22][23][24] Among this, Rashed also directed on the fourth series of the period crime drama Miss Scarlet and The Duke.[25]
Selected filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | Ref(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actor | Producer | Director | Role(s) | ||||
| 1989-1992 | Forever Green | Yes | No | No | Tom Boult | 18 episodes | [2] |
| 1991 | Impromptu | Yes | No | No | Didier | [3] | |
| 2008 | Baghdad Express | No | No | Yes | [27] | ||
| 2013 | Touch | No | No | Yes | [28] | ||
| 2017 | London Tomorrow | No | No | Yes | [30] | ||
| 2019 | Holby City | No | No | Yes | 1 episode | [12] | |
| 2019 | Hollyoaks | No | No | Yes | 5 episodes | [31] | |
| 2016-2020 | Doctors | No | No | Yes | 29 episodes | [11] | |
| 2019-2021 | Casualty | No | No | Yes | 2 episodes | [13] | |
| 2020-2021 | EastEnders | No | No | Yes | 19 episodes | [14] | |
| 2022 | The Good Karma Hospital | No | No | Yes | 2 episodes | [15] | |
| 2024 | Fool Me Once | No | No | Yes | 3 episodes | [16] | |
| 2024 | Miss Scarlet and The Duke | No | No | Yes | 3 episodes | [25] | |
| 2025 | Missing You | No | No | Yes | 3 episodes | [32] | |
| 2026 | Run Away | No | Yes | Yes | 5 episodes | [23] | |
References
[edit]- ↑ "Nimer Rashed | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- 1 2 "Forever Green". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 "Impromptu". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Sir Peter Ustinov Scriptwriting Award – International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". iemmys.tv. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "British Council Film: Baghdad Express". British Council UK Films Database. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "Up and coming British film talent". Virgin Media. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "Virgin Media Shorts reveals winner". Screen Daily. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
- ↑ "What the BBC Writersroom New Directors' Scheme did for me". BBC. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ Parfitt, Orlando (18 September 2017). "Four directors picked for UK high-end TV drama scheme". Screen Daily. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "BBC - BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017 - Media Centre". BBC. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- 1 2 "BBC One - Doctors, Series 20, Do No Harm". BBC. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 "BBC One - Holby City, Series 21, A Simple Lie, Part Two". BBC. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 "BBC One - Casualty, Series 33, Episode 40". BBC. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 "BBC One - Eastenders, 24/06/2021 - Part 1". BBC. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 "The Good Karma Hospital Series 4 | Press Pack" (PDF). ITV (TV network). Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 "Harlan Coben's 'Fool Me Once' Announced". Netflix. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Fool Me Once: Release date, trailer and plot for Harlan Coben drama". Radio Times. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- ↑ "Richard Armitage, Michelle Keegan, Joanna Lumley Lead Cast of New Netflix Series 'Fool Me Once'". Variety. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- ↑ "This Miniseries Joined Netflix's All-Time Best — and Viewers Can't Get Over the Ending". Collider. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- ↑ "'Run Away': First Look At Harlan Coben's Latest Netflix Thriller". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- ↑ "Netflix's 'Run Away': Harlan Coben Series With Minnie Driver, James Nesbitt Reveals First-Look Images". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- ↑ "Watch Harlan Coben's new thriller Run Away before it hits Netflix – exclusive preview and cast Q&A". Radio Times. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- 1 2 "'Run Away' Trailer: James Nesbitt Is A Father Desperately Seeking His Daughter In Harlan Coben's Latest For Netflix". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Screen UK - Run Away". www.screenuk.org. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- 1 2 "'Miss Scarlet And The Duke' Renewed For Fourth Season By Masterpiece". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Forever Green". Nostalgia Central. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Baghdad Express". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Touch". fine-line-productions.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Up and coming British film talent celebrated as the 2013 Virgin Media Shorts winner is announced". news.virginmediao2.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "London Tomorrow". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Hollyoaks spoiler: Tom makes a shock discovery". digitalspy.com. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Harlan Coben's New Netflix Series 'Missing You' Drops Trailer After Runaway Success Of 'Fool Me Once'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
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