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Alex Pillai

  • Director
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Alex Pillai
Alex Pillai is of South Indian heritage, and was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. He was educated at the National Film and Television School, and his break in television direction was for the actor and producer Sir Lenny Henry. He is a recipient of the FIPA D'Argent and the Screen Nation Award. Alex lives near London.
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    Known for

    Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton in La chronique des Bridgerton (2020)
    La chronique des Bridgerton
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Director
    Kiernan Shipka in Les Nouvelles Aventures de Sabrina (2018)
    Les Nouvelles Aventures de Sabrina
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Director
    Varada Sethu and Ncuti Gatwa in Doctor Who (2023)
    Doctor Who
    6.1
    TV Series
    • Director
    The Wyvern Mystery (2000)
    The Wyvern Mystery
    5.7
    TV Movie
    • Director
    • 2000

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    • Varada Sethu and Ncuti Gatwa in Doctor Who (2023)
      Doctor Who
      6.1
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2024–2025
    • Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Malia Pyles, Maia Reficco, and Zaria in Pretty Little Liars : Péché Originel (2022)
      Pretty Little Liars : Péché Originel
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Director (as Alex Sanjiv Pillai)
      • 2022–2024
    • Charithra Chandran, Tanner Buchanan, and Sebastian Croft in À la conquête de Billy Walsh (2024)
      À la conquête de Billy Walsh
      5.2
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Riverdale (2017)
      Riverdale
      6.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2018–2023
    • Parminder Nagra in DI Ray (2022)
      DI Ray
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton in La chronique des Bridgerton (2020)
      La chronique des Bridgerton
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Jared Padalecki in Walker (2021)
      Walker
      6.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia in McDonald & Dodds (2020)
      McDonald & Dodds
      7.6
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Kiernan Shipka in Les Nouvelles Aventures de Sabrina (2018)
      Les Nouvelles Aventures de Sabrina
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019–2020
    • Katherine LaNasa, Lucy Hale, Julia Chan, Ashleigh Murray, and Jonny Beauchamp in Katy Keene (2020)
      Katy Keene
      6.3
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Michael Weatherly and Darrin Hickok in The Necklace (2016)
      Bull
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2017–2020
    • Allison Tolman and Alexa Swinton in Emergence (2019)
      Emergence
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic in Instinct (2018)
      Instinct
      6.7
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Matt Barr and Christina Ochoa in Valor (2017)
      Valor
      6.0
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Neil Dudgeon, John Nettles, and Jane Wymark in Inspecteur Barnaby (1997)
      Inspecteur Barnaby
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2012–2017

    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • Garden in the Rain
      Short
      • assistant director: London
      • 1990

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      • Alex Sanjiv Pillai

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