Gwyneth Hughes


Gwyneth Hughes is a British documentary director and screenwriter who works mainly in television.

Early life

She is a former newspaper journalist from the north of England.

Career

Her credits include the crime drama Five Days, Cherished, a film about the wrongful conviction of Angela Cannings, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's unfinished work The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Girl, which explores an alleged obsession Alfred Hitchcock had with the actress Tippi Hedren. Her work on Five Days earned her a nomination at the 2008 Golden Globe Awards. In 2013 she wrote Remember Me, which debuted on the BBC in November 2014.
In 2018, she executive-produced and adapted William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair into a 7-part television mini-series for ITV and Amazon Studios.