Julian Farino (born 9 April 1961) is an English film and television producer and director. He directed much of the first three seasons of the HBO series Entourage.
Career Farino was born and raised in London and educated at Cambridge University. He became an editor of The Guinness Book of Records after graduating, and later appeared as a co-presenter on Record Breakers alongside Fiona Kennedy and Roy Castle.
After a period as a television researcher at Granada Television, he began his directing career there making a sequence of observational films about drag queens, young classical musicians, children's entertainers, and boxers. They Call Us Nutters was a portrait of life on a ward of Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, and A Winter's Tale described life in the coldest inhabited place on earth, Oymyakon in Eastern Siberia.
In 2000 he directed 7Up 2000, a continuation of the multi-award-winning documentary series, featuring 7-year-olds from all over Britain - a project that continued with 14 Up in 2007. His film drama in the UK includes an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, which won four BAFTAs including Best Drama; Bob and Rose, a romantic comedy which won Best Series at The British Comedy Awards; and Flesh and Blood, starring Christopher Eccleston, which won the Prix Europa for Best Film. Other credits in the UK include The Last Yellow for BBC Films starring Samantha Morton and Mark Addy, and Byron, a biopic of the romantic poet, starring Jonny Lee Miller and Vanessa Redgrave.
Farino went to the United States in 2004 to work for HBO, and directed the majority of episodes of the first three seasons of Entourage. He stayed to work on the series Big Love and Rome, and has received four Emmy and three DGA nominations.' He was executive producer and director of the HBO television show How to Make It in America for its two series. For Entourage: The Sundance Kids he was nominated in category Best Directing for a Comedy. In 2010, Farino directed The Oranges starring Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester, his first feature film in the US. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released on 5 October 2012.
Personal life Previously based in Los Angeles, Farino lives in England with his wife, actress Branka Katić and their two sons, Louis and Joe.
Filmography
Television +YearTitleNotes1992–94Coronation Street37 episodes1994–96In Suspicious Circumstances4 episodes1995Medics2 episodes1996Out of the Blue2 episodesSavage SkiesSegment "The Winter's Tale"1997Wokenwell4 episodes1998Our Mutual Friend4 episodes20007 Up 20002001Bob & Rose2004–09Entourage23 episodes2004Sex and the City2 episodes2005Rome1 episode2006–07Big Love3 episodes200714 Up 2000The Office2 episodes2010How to Make It in America2013The NewsroomEpisode "One Step Too Many"Hello Ladies2 episodes2014Brooklyn Nine-NineEpisode "The Bet"21 Up New Generation2015–2018Ballers17 episodes2019Giri/Haji5 episodes2021In Treatment4 episodes28 Up: Millennium Generation2023Florida Man2 episodes2025Amadeus3 episodes2026Black Doves4 episodes
Film +YearTitleNotes1999The Last Yellow2002Flesh and Blood2003Byron2011The Oranges2014MarvellousWinner of the BAFTA Television Craft Award for Best Director2017The Child in Time2024The Union
References
External links
Director Julian Farino and actor Gemma Jones talk about why the Marvellous experience was a special one. The Oranges: How I found myself in a real-life Entourage, Julian Farino at Guardian interview about having a "go" movie in Hollywood, 30 November 2012