[4] As a young man he signed professionally for Cambridge United Football Club and represented England at youth level.
[citation needed] After being in London, he arranged a Career Development Loan, and completed an MA in Film and TV at Bournemouth University.
He found his way onto the BBC Production Training Scheme, for which there were ten places a year, with around five thousand applicants.
He also directed the Golden Globe nominated crime series Luther, the movie Hammer of the Gods, BBC period drama The Musketeers and the Doctor Who episodes "The Rings of Akhaten" and the 2011 Christmas special, "The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe".
[5] He directed Naomi Watts in the French English-language psychological thriller Shut In (2016), from Christina Hodson's Blacklist screenplay about a woman who discovers a shocking secret about her catatonic son.