Catherine Millar

Director | Writer

Catherine Millar is an award-winning director who has worked on many of Australia’s most critically and commercially successful TV dramas. Her credits are numerous and diverse, spanning drama, crime, comedy, fantasy, young adult and children’s drama.

Most recently, Catherine wrapped on her first block of NCIS: Sydney (Endemol Shine Australia / Paramount+) series three. She has directed at least two episodes of every season since 2023, and this year will return to complete a second block. In 2023 Catherine was the set-up director for One Night (Easy Tiger/ Motive Pictures/ Paramount+), a six-part mystery starring Jodie Whittaker, Yael Stone and Nicola da Silva. It was acquired by Netflix in 2024. Catherine has also directed on the first seasons of crime-drama Troppo (EQ Media/ ABC / Prime Video, 2022), courtroom thriller The Twelve (Easy Tiger/ Warner Bros. Television/ Binge, 2022) and Helium Pictures’ The Last King of the Cross (Paramount+, 2022)

In 2020, Catherine was the set-up director of the psychological thriller series, The Secret She Keeps for Lingo Pictures and Network Ten. The series features Laura Carmichael, Jessica De Gouw, Michael Dorman and Ryan Corr and was based on the Michael Robotham best-selling novel of the same name. The six-part thriller, of which Catherine directed four episodes, was a huge success for Network Ten and went on to premiere in the UK on BBC1; this marked a milestone as one of the first Australian TV dramas to screen in primetime on the BBC’s flagship channel in recent years.

Catherine returned to direct episodes for the third season of Harrow (Hoodlum, 2020) after directing episodes of the second series in 2019. Catherine’s other credits include the critically acclaimed and award-winning Janet King (Screentime/ ABC, 2017); the hugely successful A Place to Call Home (Seven Productions/ Foxtel, 2016-18) for which Catherine helmed the series final episodes; Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Every Cloud Productions/ABC, 2013) and fourteen episodes across four seasons of Wentworth (Fremantle/ Foxtel, 2013-16).

Darlings of God (ABC TV, 1989), which Catherine developed and directed, won her an AWGIE for Best TV Adaptation.  Catherine was also nominated for an AFI for Best TV Director for her episode of Twisted Tales (Nine Network, 1996).Her other credits include Water Rats (Nine Network, 1997), The Lost World (Coote Hayes/ Alliance Atlantis, 1999-2000), Beastmaster (Alliance Atlantis, 2001) Farscape (Jim Henson Productions, SyFy Channel/ Nine Network, 2000-01), Sleepover Club (Burberry Productions/ Nine Network, 2003), Sword of Honour (Seven Network, 1986),Darlings of the Gods (ABC, 1989), The New Adventures of Black Beauty (Isambard Productions, 1990-91), Heartbreak High (Gannon Television/ Ten Network, 1995-98) and Mumbo Jumbo (Artist Services/ Network Seven, 1999).

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