Directing

Coky Giedroyc

Mary-Rose Helen "Coky" Giedroyć is a BAFTA-nominated English director.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

How to Build a Girl poster
5.8

The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.

How to Build a Girl

2020

Women Talking Dirty poster
5.4

A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Women Talking Dirty

2001

Greatest Days poster
6.1

Based on the Take That musical, five best friends have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later, their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their beloved band, to relight their friendship and discover that maybe their greatest days are ahead of them.

Greatest Days

2023

The Sound of Music Live! poster
7.7

The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.

The Sound of Music Live!

2015

Carrie's War poster
7.7

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.

Carrie's War

2004

Fear of Fanny poster
7.1

The bizarre tale of Fanny Cradock, Britain's famous and maligned TV chef from 50s to the 70s.

Fear of Fanny

2006

Stella Does Tricks poster
6.5

A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.

Stella Does Tricks

1997

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing poster
7.0

Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire and why his theatrical innovations are still staples of the contemporary theatre.

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

1995