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Frederick E. O. Toye

American television director, editor and producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Frederick E. O. Toye (born September 26, 1967) is an American television director and executive producer. Toye began his career as a production assistant for five years and an editor for 15 years, before becoming a television director.[1] He is a frequent collaborator of J. J. Abrams. He has directed, edited, and produced several episodes of the ABC series Alias,[2] as well as serving as a producer and director on the Fox science fiction series Fringe. In 2024, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for his work on the first season of the FX series Shōgun.

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He has also directed episodes of Lost, Ghost Whisperer, Brothers & Sisters, The 4400, Moonlight, V, CSI: NY, Chuck, The Good Wife, Falling Skies, Person of Interest, Fallout and other series.

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Early life and education

Toye attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with a B.A.[3] He is a great-grandson of the opera singer Marguerite Namara.

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Toye made the move into television directing after working for five years as a production assistant and a decade as an editor. This background in the editing room gave him a solid sense of how to tell a clear story, which helped considerably in his work on such complex series as Chuck (NBC 2007–12) and Fringe (Fox 2008–13). Los Angeles native Toye got his first screen credit working as a production assistant on Billy Crystal's 1989 HBO special Midnight Train to Moscow, before moving into visual effects on films like The Addams Family (1991) and then working as an assistant editor on hit films such as Forrest Gump (1994) and Men in Black (1997). [4]

As a TV director, Toye cut his teeth on network TV action and sci-fi thrillers like Alias, Lost, and Fringe and has also worked on character-rich dramas such as The Good Wife. That experience running the gamut between drama genres served Toye well in recent years, directing episodes of genre series like Westworld, Snowpiercer, Watchmen and The Walking Dead. In 2024, his prolific output included The Boys and Fallout. The same year, Toye received acclaim for his work on Shōgun, helming four episodes of the Emmy-winning FX drama series, including season finale "A Dream of a Dream." The season's penultimate episode, "Crimson Sky," earned Toye his first-ever Emmy for outstanding directing, which was also Toy's first-ever career nomination in the category. Toye followed it up by directing the pilot episode of Prime Video’s prequel series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, starring Chris Pratt and Taylor Kitsch.[5]

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