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Vanessa Whyte

Vanessa Whyte

Cinematographer

Vanessa is a UK-based cinematographer whose recent work includes The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin for Apple TV, and the multi-award winning Ted Lasso Seasons 2 and 3. Her other TV work includes the pilot for Mawaan Rizwan's Juice, Season 1 of Whitstable Pearl and Season 1 of All Creatures Great and Small for Channel 5 and Masterpiece PBS, which was nominated for Best Drama Series at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2021 and for which Vanessa was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Golden Panda Awards. Vanessa shot the 2018 BAFTA and Royal Television Society Award-winning drama Murdered for Being Different, for director Paul Andrew Williams for the BBC, and teamed up with him again to shoot the six-part ITV series A Confession, written by Jeff Pope and starring Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, Joe Absolom and Siobhan Finneran, which was nominated for Best Mini Series at the BAFTA TV Awards 2020, Best New Drama at The National Television Awards and Best Drama Series at the Broadcast Awards.

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Biography from TMDB.

Works as
Cinematographer
Titles
11 on MovieCove · 25 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Official site (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Up 6% in 30 days

What are Vanessa Whyte's films like?

Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight
Morality
32%
Bonds
22%
Society
19%
Self
16%
Survival
10%
Family bonds2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 3 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Dark: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their dark movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 2

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0

Intense: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their intense movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 2

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 1 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0

Heavy: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their heavy movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2

Open-ended: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their open-ended movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Dread
3
Tense
3
Melancholic
3
Contemplative
2
Warm
2
Other
1

How their films linger

Unsettling3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 1 with a twist

  • Bittersweet1
  • Tragic1
  • Ambiguous3

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Vanessa Whyte's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on BritBox (4).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Vanessa Whyte's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

25 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

  • Oscar Perez:: The Movie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Director

  • Dragonfly(2025)

    Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • A Friend of Dorothy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Cinematographer

  • Scale (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    Cinematographer

  • Bull(2021)

    Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • From A Strange Land (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Cinematographer

  • Whitstable Pearl(2021)

    Show 2 episodes · Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows

  • All Creatures Great & Small(2020)

    Show 1 episode · Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • Ted Lasso(2020)

    Show 9 episodes · Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • Isolation Stories(2020)

    Show Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all shows

  • The Bind (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Cinematographer

  • A Confession(2019)

    Show 6 episodes · Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows

  • Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Show 8 episodes · Cinematographer

  • There She Goes(2018)

    Show Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows

  • Murdered for Being Different(2017)

    Cinematographer

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films

  • The Autopsy of Jane Doe(2016)

    Additional Photography

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films

  • Operator (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Cinematographer

  • Exmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Cinematographer

  • Rest Stop (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Cinematographer

  • Behind You (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Cinematographer

  • Identicals(2015)

    Second Unit Director of Photography

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films

  • The Pub (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Cinematographer

  • A Trick of the Light (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director · Cinematographer · Producer · Writer

  • The Low Anthem (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Camera Operator

  • 4 Weeks (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Cinematographer

Career shape

A full career of 22 titles from 2009 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Dragonfly (2025)

$120K worldwide

Highest rated

There She Goes (2018)

Midcredits 93rd

By role

only this rolewith another role
Directing2 of 22: 1 only directing, 1 with another roleWriting1 of 22: 0 only writing, 1 with another roleProducing1 of 22: 0 only producing, 1 with another roleCinematography19 of 22: 18 only cinematography, 1 with another role · typical Midcredits score81stOther crew2 of 22: 2 only other crew, 0 with another role

By decade

2000s2 · crew2010s11 · crew2020s9 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Vanessa Whyte's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 74th percentile, the median of all 5; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 79th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

79thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Approval · how many liked their films

80thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Reach · how many have seen their films

77thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Midcredits score across 11 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up6
  • 50th to 74th3
  • 25th to 49th1
  • Below 25th1

Shape of the crowd

5 of their 11 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved4
  • Divisive1
  • Crowd Pleaser5
  • Mixed1

Most divisive · cinematographer

Identicals (2015)

93rd percentile spread · 43% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · cinematographer

All Creatures Great & Small (2020)

Midcredits 98th · 94% liked

Reviewers score the cinematography 60/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 65, detractors 43. The element that speaks to their work as a cinematographer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Vanessa Whyte work with?

People who share at least 2 of Vanessa Whyte's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Paul Andrew Williams shares the most, 4.

Directors

Actors

Composers

Producers