Nimer Rashed is a British film, television and video games writer and director, as well as former child actor, best known for directing the Netflix adaptations Fool Me Once, Missing You and Run Away of the respective Harlan Coben novels.
Early life As a child, Rashed worked as an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company. with roles in the LWT drama Forever Green, and the period drama Impromptu. In 2006, he won The Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award at the International Emmy Awards for his original script "The Great McGinty"
Directing Rashed began his directing career in 2008 with the short film Baghdad Express, featuring fellow Merchant Taylors' alumnus Riz Ahmed. He subsequently directed several other short films, including Touch, for which he was awarded the Virgin Media Shorts Grand Prize, judged by Shane Meadows and David Tennant.
Rashed then trained as a director as part of the BBC Writersroom New Directors' Scheme.. After successfully applying to Directors UK and Creative England's High-End TV Drama Programme, he worked as 2nd Unit Director on Mike Bartlett's Press, as well as on NBC's The Capture and Amazon's The Feed, and was named on the BBC New Talent Hotlist. During this time, Rashed also directed episodes of Doctors, Holby City, Casualty, EastEnders and The Good Karma Hospital.
In 2023, it was announced that Rashed would be a director on Fool Me Once, a Netflix adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel of the same name, starring Richard Armitage, Michelle Keegan and Joanna Lumley. He was subsequently signed on to direct the further adaptations, Missing You, starring Rosalind Eleazar, and Run Away, starring James Nesbitt and Minnie Driver, serving as Lead Director on the latter. Among this, Rashed also directed on the fourth series of the period crime drama Miss Scarlet and The Duke.
Selected filmography YearTitleCredited asNotesRole(s)1989-1992Forever GreenTom Boult18 episodes 1991ImpromptuDidier 2008Baghdad Express 2013Touch 2017London Tomorrow 2019Holby City1 episode 2019Hollyoaks5 episodes 2016-2020Doctors29 episodes 2019-2021Casualty2 episodes 2020-2021EastEnders19 episodes 2022The Good Karma Hospital2 episodes 2024Fool Me Once3 episodes 2024Miss Scarlet and The Duke3 episodes 2025Missing You3 episodes 2026Run Away5 episodes
References
External links
Nimer Rashed – portfolio site