Nicole
Taylor

Award winning writer for film and television

Nicole Taylor's latest thiller series The Nest is currently airing on BBC One. Her feature film Wild Rose was released this year to excellent reviews. It is directed by Tom Harper, produced by Faye Ward, and stars Julie Walters, Jessie Buckley and Sophie Okonedo. The film has three BAFTA Scotland nominations including Best Writer and Best Feature Film.

Praise for Wild Rose:

"Taylor deftly nails the dramatic beats. More admirable still is her willingness to keep the sharp edges of her story intact" – Financial Times

Nicole won a BAFTA for Best Writer for her three-part BBC series Three Girls about the Rochdale grooming scandal. Three Girls aired to outstanding reviews and a powerful audience response, going on to win a BAFTA for Best Mini Series.

Praise for Three Girls:

“Searingly compelling drama” – The Times

“TV with this kind of power and significance is rare today - telling, or asking us something about ourselves, in the Cathy Come Home tradition - and to see it three nights running in prime time on BBC One is astonishing” – The Herald

Prior to writing Three Girls Nicole's multi-BAFTA nominated single drama The C Word was produced for BBC1 and starred Sheridan Smith.

Previously Nicole has written on numerous series, including Indian Summers for Channel 4, The Hour for BBC2 and Ashes to Ashes for BBC1.

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Film

Writer 

Wild Rose
Producer Faye Ward
Director Tom Harper
Starring
  • Julie Walters
  • Jessie Buckley
    •

    Original feature film project about a musician from Glasgow who dreams of becoming a Nashville star.

    Fable Pictures

    Television

    Writer & Creator & Executive Producer 

    The Nest
    5 x 60'
    Producer Clare Kerr
    Director Andy De Emmony / Simen Alsvik
    Starring
  • Sophie Rundle
  • Martin Compston
    •
    Studio Lambert for BBC One

    Writer 

    Three Girls
    3 x 60'
    Producer Simon Lewis
    Director Philippa Lowthorpe
    Starring
  • Ria Zmitrowicz
  • Molly Windsor
    •
    Studio Lambert for BBC One
    The C Word
    1 x 90'
    Producer Simon Lewis, Sue Hogg
    Director Tim Kirkby
    Starring
  • Sheridan Smith
  • Paul Nicholls
    •

    Single film adaptation of the book by Lisa Lynch who was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 28, and created the blog 'Alright Tit'.

    BBC Drama for BBC One
    Indian Summers
    1 x 60'
    Creator Paul Rutman
    Producer Charlie Pattinson, Simon Curtis, Rebecca Eaton
    Director Anand Tucker
    Starring
  • Julie Walters
  • Henry Lloyd-Hughes
  • Jemima West
    •
    Original drama series about the final years of British colonial rule in India.
    New Pictures for Channel 4
    In production
    Dracula
    1 x 45'
    Creator Cole Haddon
    Producer Irene Burns, Christopher Hall, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
    Director Nick Murphy
    Starring
  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Jessica De Gouw
    •

    Dracula arrives in London posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier. There's only one thing which could thwart his plan - he's fallen hopelessly in love with a woman who appears to be the reincarnation of his dead wife.

    Carnival Films/NBC Universal for Sky 1
    The White Queen
    1 x 60'
    Creator Emma Frost
    Producer Gina Cronk
    Director Jamie Payne
    Starring
  • Aneurin Barnard
  • Max Irons
  • Rebecca Ferguson
    •

    The White Queen is a major new ten-hour adaptation of Philippa Gregory‘s vivid bestselling historical novel series The Cousin’s War, for BBC One.

    Company Pictures for BBC One
    The Hour (Series 2)
    1 x 60'
    Creator Abi Morgan
    Producer Ruth Kenley-Letts
    Director Catherine Morshead
    Starring
  • Romola Garai
  • Dominic West
  • Ben Whishaw
  • Peter Capaldi
    •
    A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
    Kudos for BBC Two
    Scott & Bailey (Series 2)
    1 x 60'
    Producer Tom Sherry
    Director Paul Walker
    Starring
  • Suranna Jones
  • Lesley Sharpe
    •
    Gill is forced to work with her ex-husband when eight year old Dylan Nichols is murdered after last being seen at an amusement arcade.
    Red Production Company for ITV1
    Ashes to Ashes
    1 x 60'
    Producer Beth Willis
    Director Ben Bolt
    Starring
  • Adrian Dunbar
  • Philip Glenister
  • Keeley Hawes
  • Marshall Lancaster
    •
    Episode of the second series of the popular police drama for BBC1
    Kudos Film and Television Ltd for BBC1
    Secret Diary of a Call Girl
    1 x 30'
    Producer Jacquie Glanville
    Director Peter Lydon
    Starring
  • Billie Piper
  • Callum Blue
  • Ido Goldberg
  • David Proud
    •
    Episode of the second series of the ITV show starring Billie Piper as Belle du Jour
    Tiger Aspect Productions for ITV2
    Coming Up
    1 x 30'
    Producer Jim Spencer/Hannah Weaver
    Director China Moo-Young
    Starring
  • Clare Grogan
  • Rachel Jackson
  • Lily Lovett
    •
    Original half hour film for Channel 4's Coming Up strand.
    IWC Media for Channel 4

    Taylor deftly nails the dramatic beats. More admirable still is her willingness to keep the sharp edges of her story intact

    Danny Leigh
    Financial Times on Wild Rose

    Searingly compelling drama

    Andrew Norfolk
    The Times on Three Girls

    This was tough, uncompromising material but it never lost its keen edge of humanity.

    Gerard O'Donovan
    The Telegraph on The C Word