Minkie Spiro

Minkie Spiro is a British cinema and TV Director and Executive Producer.

Minkie Spiro
Born	London
Occupation(s)	TV and film director, producer

Career

Minkie Spiro is the daughter of Robin and Nitza Spiro. Her father is an ex-member of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. The spouses co-founded the Spiro Ark, a renowned Jewish education institute. Minkie Spiro, who has 5 sisters and a brother, grew up in St John’s Wood.^[1][2] She studied Graphic Design at Central St. Martins School of Art in London and worked as a photographer for BBC in the early 1990s. As a photojournalist, she covered the Bosnian War and Operation Solomon.^[3][4] She also worked for Channel 4.^[5]

Later, she obtained a Masters degree in Film Directing from the Royal College of Art.^[6][7]

Her early works include The Boxer (1995), Strangers in Paradise (1996), and Rat Woman (1997).^[8]

Her credits as a television director include Holby City, Better Call Saul, Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife, Skins, Doc Martin, Jessica Jones, and many more.^[9][6][10]

In 2018, she became BAFTA member.^[11]

In 2019, she directed the pilot of The Village. Spiro also served as an executive producer on the series.^[12]

Spiro served as a member of the International Competition jury at 2025 Series Mania festival.^[13]

Her upcoming mini-series project All Her Fault for NBC Universal stars Dakota Fanning.^[14][15][16]

Selected works

Cinema

• Rat Women short (1997);^[4]
• Tales from the reading room (2000);^[9]
• I Am Ruthie Segal, Hear Me Roar (2009);

TV Series

• Dead to Me (2019);
• The Plot Against America (2020).^[9][17]
• Fosse/Verdon episode All I Care About Is Love;^[18]
• Pieces of Her, director and executive producer (2022);^[19]
• 3 Body Problem, episodes 4, 5, 6.^[6]
• Toxic Town (2025).^[20]

Awards and nominations

• 2004 – BAFTA Best New Director (Fiction) nomination (for Holby City);^[21]
• 2019 – Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film nomination (for Fosse/Verdon episode All I Care About Is Love).