Lizzie’s UK credits include the first three films of the Messiah franchise, a co-production with BBC and Paramount, and launching The Inspector Lynley Mysteries from the novels by Elizabeth George. Single films include Love or Money, Every Time You Look at Me and the award-winning Sinners (5 Magnolia awards at the Shanghai Festival). Lizzie was co-writer with Daniel Percival on Dirty War, a co-production with HBO and BBC Films. They collaborated again on the 6 part conspiracy thriller, The State Within, a co-production with the BBC/BBC America, which received two Golden Globe nominations.
In the US Lizzie is presently adapting The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White and Ken Follett’s A Column of Fire for Sony TV.
She was Executive Producer on the Oliver Stone/Daniel Voll Guantanamo drama for Showtime. She was consultant producer/writer on the Fox hit, The Following, co-exec producer/writer on Snowpiercer for TNT, and as consultant producer/writer on TNT’s drama, Proof. She was co-executive producer on Netflix’s award-winning drama, Bloodline and worked with Guillermo Del Toro developing the mini-series The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths for HBO. Lizzie also exec produced The Department for film maker Peter Landesman.
Her television acting credits include her role as Maggie Thorpe in the BBC television drama series Tenko, and other roles in Emmerdale Farm, Juliet Bravo, Lovejoy, Heartbeat, Woof, The Merryhill Millionaires, Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy and Holby City amongst others.
Since 2000 she has worked exclusively as a writer, as Lizzie Mickery, for various British TV series such as Byker Grove, The Bill, Heartbeat, Pie in the Sky, The Ice House (adapted from the novel by Minette Walters), The Beggar Bride (from the novel by Gillian White) and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (from the Elizabeth George novels).
She also wrote Messiah, Messiah 2 and Messiah 3 for the BBC. One-off dramas include Sinners, Every Time You Look At Me, and Dirty War which she co-wrote with writer-director Daniel Percival. They have subsequently written the conspiracy thriller The State Within, which was nominated for two Golden Globes in 2008. Instinct, a two-part thriller that was shown on ITV in 2007 was also written by her.
In 2008 she wrote the screenplay for the BBC drama The 39 Steps, an adaptation of the John Buchan novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. In late November 2009 the BBC transmitted Paradox, a show written by Mickery. In 2012 she was Senior Creative Consultant for Direct TV’s Rogue (USA), starring Thandi Newton, which was recommissionned in 2013.
Lizzie Mickery lives and works in London and Los Angeles.