Born: 1965
Episodes Broadcast: 2011

Although he was born in India, Bharat Nalluri moved with his family to England when he was six years old, after his father -- a professor of hydrology -- accepted a post there. During his teenaged years, Star Wars inspired a love of movies and an ambition to be a director. Nalluri briefly worked as a runner on Mike Figgis' Stormy Monday (1988). He then began making short films, and completed a Masters of Arts in film at the Northern School of Film and Television in Leeds, West Yorkshire. In 1994, Nalluri was able to raise funds for a feature-length action movie called Killing Time. Released in 1998, it performed well on video and provided him with the opportunity to direct The Crow: Salvation, a 2000 crime sequel starring Kirsten Dunst.

Nalluri was then offered directing assignments on more action movies, but he was wary of being pigeonholed in the genre. Instead, he turned his attention to television, initially making an episode of Shockers, and subsequently moving on to the likes of Spooks and Life On Mars. Nalluri supplied the original idea which became Hustle, and he directed its first three installments. In 2004, while making the miniseries Tsunami: The Aftermath, he met journalist Kylie Morris, who was working on the serial as a researcher. They would marry, and have a son and a daughter. Meanwhile, Nalluri's eagerness to maintain diversity in his career prompted him to tackle the Amy Adams movie comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. By 2009, he was regularly working on both sides of the Atlantic; in the United States, he would often claim an executive producer credit on the television episodes he directed, starting with an installment of Cupid.

In 2011, Nalluri directed The New World, the first episode of the fourth and final season for the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, which was now being made as a co-production between the BBC and the Starz network in the United States. Amongst his other credits during the 2010s were Outcasts, Emily Owens MD, The 100 and The Player. Nalluri also made the Charles Dickens biopic The Man Who Invented Christmas, and he returned to Spooks for its movie spin-off, Spooks: The Greater Good. His projects in the Twenties included episodes of Little America, Professionals and Shantaram.