S. J. Clarkson is a British television director. Her credits include both British and American series.
Works she has directed with pages on TV Tropes:
- Doctors (2001–2004, 37 episodes)
- CASUAL+Y (2003–2005, 5 episodes)
- EastEnders (2004, 8 episodes)
- Bad Girls (2005, 2 episodes)
- Hustle (2006, 2 episodes)
- Life on Mars (2006–2007, 6 episodes)
- Whitechapel (TV Series) (2009, 3 episodes)
- Heroes (2009–2010, episodes "Hysterical Blindness" and "The Art of Deception")
- Dexter (2009–2011, 3 episodes)
- Ugly Betty (2010, episode "The Passion of the Betty")
- House (2011, episode "Recession Proof")
- Banshee (2013, episodes "The Kindred" and "The Rave")
- Smash (2013, episode "The Surprise Party")
- Bates Motel (2013, episode "The Man in Number 9")
- The Bridge (US) (2013, episode "All About Eva")
- Hostages (2013, episode "The Good Reason")
- Turn (2014, episode "Of Cabbages and Kings")
- Orange Is the New Black (2014, episode "40 Oz. of Furlough")
- Marvel Cinematic Universe's Netflix series
- Jessica Jones (2015, episodes "AKA Crush Syndrome" and "AKA Ladies Night")
- The Defenders (2017, episodes "Mean Right Hook" and "The H Word")
- Vinyl (2016, episode "The Racket")
- Collateral (2018, 4 episodes)
- Succession (2018, episode "Prague")
- Madame Web (2024, feature film)
Her work provides examples of the following tropes:
- What Could Have Been:
- She was one of the directors considered to direct the 25th James Bond film (which ended up becoming No Time to Die) after Danny Boyle left due to Creative Differences, before Cary Fukunaga was selected.
- She was also tapped to direct the fourth Star Trek film of the reboot film series that began with Star Trek (2009) (which would have made her the first female director in the franchise's history), before that film was "shelved indefinitely." It would resume production with two other television directors, Noah Hawley of Fargo and Matt Shankman of WandaVision, attached at different points of development, both of whom also eventually left the project.
- She was selected to direct the pilot episode of a Game of Thrones prequel (which had the Working Title Blood and Moon) before the prequel was axed.
- She was one of the directors considered to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 after James Gunn was fired by Disney over old controversial tweets that had resurfaced online, before he was eventually reinstated due to both public outcry at the decision and because none of the directors were willing to take over the Guardians franchise.