DOMINIC MINGHELLA
Writer/Producer

Dominic Minghella was born in 1966 to second-generation Italian parents. He grew up on the Isle of Wight and went to the local comprehensive, Medina High, and on to Merton College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

After university, Dominic worked in production in commercials and television before focussing on a writing career. He was script editor and writer for the much-loved series Hamish Macbeth starring Robert Carlyle for BBC.

Dominic wrote and created the hit series Doc Martin starring Martin Clunes for ITV/Buffalo Pictures.  In its first series, Doc Martin averaged 8.8m viewers and a whopping 40% audience share.  It went on to win Best Comedy Drama at the Comedy Awards and the curmudgeonly doctor remains a star of the ITV drama schedules, and around the world.

Doc Martin, now in its 6th year in the UK, has also been remade in Germany, Spain and France.

More on the success of Doc Martin from its distributors.

Dominic wrote and created the Robin Hood series for BBC/Tiger Aspect, starring Jonas Armstrong, Richard Armitage, Keith Allen, Lucy Griffiths, Joe Armstrong, Sam Troughton, Harry Lloyd and Anjali Jay.

Dominic was also Executive Producer and Showrunner of Series One and Series Two (26 episodes).  For its distributors, BBC WorldWide, Robin Hood was the top selling drama around the world.

Dominic is Producer with Sarah Beardsall of Island Pictures’ film adaptation of The Scapegoat (2012), based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, and written and directed by Charles Sturridge.

Dominic is a member of the Writers’ Guld of Great Britain (WGGB) and the Writers’ Guild of America (WGAE).  He has served on the Executive Council of the Writers’ Guild, and the Film Committee.  He is a member of BAFTA and the British Comedy Academy.  He has served on a variety of film and television juries.  He has mentored writers at home and abroad.  He has lectured when he should have listened, and listened when he should have piped up.  He is a member of any club that will have him, including the Groucho.   He is a patron of the Starr Trust and a proud supporter of the Isle of Wight’s Minghella Film Festival and, last, forlonly, but never least, Portsmouth Football Club.