Suri Krishnamma is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

. He has directed several films, including A Man of No Importance

A Man of No Importance (film)

A Man of No Importance is a 1994 comedy drama film directed by Suri Krishnamma and starring Albert Finney.-Synopsis:Alfred Byrne is a closeted homosexual bus conductor in 1963 Dublin. His sister tries to find him a suitable woman, but his real passion is putting on amateur theater productions of...

, New Year's Day

New Year's Day (film)

New Year's Day is a 2001 comedy-drama film starring Andrew Lee Potts, Bobby Barry, Jacqueline Bisset, Anastasia Hille, Michael Kitchen, Sue Johnston, Ralph Brown and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. It was written by Ralph Brown and directed by Suri Krishnamma....

, Locked In

Locked In (film)

Locked In is a 2010 independent thriller drama film directed by Suri Krishnamma and written by Ronnie Christensen, starring Ben Barnes, Sarah Roemer and Eliza Dushku. It was shot in the United States under the working title of Valediction...

  and Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights (2003 film)

Wuthering Heights was a modern-day adaptation of the classic novel that aired on MTV in 2003 and was later released on DVD. It stars Erika Christensen, Mike Vogel, Christopher Masterson, Katherine Heigl, John Doe, and Aimee Osbourne. The screenplay was by Max Enscoe and Annie deYoung, from an...

. He has won four film festival awards and been nominated for three BAFTA awards.

Krishnamma has also directed several episodes of the television series Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead (TV series)

Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...

. These include the episodes Shadowplay, False Flag

False flag

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, and Anger Management. In 1995 he directed The Turnaround, the pilot episode of Sharman (TV series)

Sharman (TV series)

Sharman is a television series starring Clive Owen, based on the "Nick Sharman" books written by London based author Mark Timlin.-Cast and characters:...

, starring Clive Owen. In 1996, he directed the Comedy Premiere The Chest.

He wrote and directed Being Othello starring Andrew Harwood Mills

Andrew Harwood Mills

-Early life and career:Andrew Harwood Mills began acting at The Angles Theatre, Wisbech where he starred as the Tin Man in The Wiz. He has appeared in numerous other theatrical productions including Guys and Dolls, The Laramie Project and Merrily We Roll Along at the Sherman Cymru, Cardiff. He...

, which premiered at BAFTA on 17 April 2009.