Steve Lightfoot

British television writer and producer

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Steve Lightfoot
Steve Lightfoot at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
Occupation	Television writer, producer

Steve Lightfoot (sometimes credited as Steven Lightfoot or Robert Scott Fraser) is a British television writer and producer who worked as an executive producer and writer on the NBC thriller television series Hannibal, the Netflix series The Punisher and, recently, the Netflix thriller miniseries Behind Her Eyes and Shantaram.

Education

Lightfoot graduated from the University of East Anglia with an MA in creative writing.^[1]

Television career

Since the early 2000s, Lightfoot has worked on a number of high-profile television series as a producer and writer, including Casualty, Taggart, House of Saddam, Camelot, Transporter: The Series, Hannibal, and Narcos. He also serves as showrunner for The Punisher. On January 25, 2019, it was announced that Lightfoot would be credited as an executive producer and writer in the Netflix thriller miniseries, Behind Her Eyes.^[2]^[3]

In 2022, Steve co-created Shantaram for Apple TV+ with Eric Warren Singer which aired from 14 October 2022 and concluded on 16 December 2022. The show was canceled after one season.

Filmography

Camelot

(1.07) "The Long Night"
(1.08) "Igraine" (with Chris Chibnall and Louise Fox)

Transporter: The Series

(1.02) "Trojan Horsepower"
(1.11) "Cherchez La Femme"

Hannibal

(1.09) "Trou Normand"
(1.11) "Rôti" (with Bryan Fuller and Scott Nimerfro)
(1.13) "Savoureux" (with Bryan Fuller and Scott Nimerfro)
(2.01) "Kaiseki" (with Bryan Fuller)
(2.03) "Hassun" (with Jason Grote)
(2.05) "Mukōzuke" (with Ayanna A. Floyd and Bryan Fuller)
(2.06) "Futamono" (with Andy Black, Bryan Fuller and Scott Nimerfro)
(2.07) "Yakimono" (with Bryan Fuller)
(2.08) "Su-zakana" (with Bryan Fuller and Scott Nimerfro)
(2.10) "Naka-Choko" (with Kai Yu Wu)
(2.13) "Mizumono" (with Bryan Fuller)
(3.01) "Antipasto" (with Bryan Fuller)
(3.03) "Secondo" (with Angelina Burnett and Bryan Fuller)
(3.04) "Aperitivo" (with Nick Antosca and Bryan Fuller)
(3.05) "Contorno" (with Bryan Fuller and Tom de Ville)
(3.06) "Dolce" (with Bryan Fuller and Don Mancini)
(3.07) "Digestivo" (with Bryan Fuller)
(3.08) "The Great Red Dragon" (with Nick Antosca and Bryan Fuller)
(3.09) "And the Woman Clothed with the Sun..." (with Bryan Fuller, Helen Shang and Jeff Vlaming)
(3.11) "...And the Beast from the Sea" (with Bryan Fuller)
(3.13) "The Wrath of the Lamb" (with Nick Antosca and Bryan Fuller)}

The Punisher

(1.01) "3 AM"
(1.02) "Two Dead Men"
(1.03) "Kandahar"
(1.13) "Memento Mori"
(2.01) "Roadhouse Blues"
(2.02) "Fight or Flight"
(2.09) "Flustercluck" (with Ken Kristensen)
(2.10) "The Dark Hearts of Men" (with Angela LaManna)
(2.13) "The Whirlwind"

Behind Her Eyes

(1.01) "Chance Encounters"
(1.02) "Lucid Dreaming"
(1.05) "The Second Door"
(1.06) "Behind Her Eyes"

Shantaram

(1.01) "The Bombay No" (and Eric Warren Singer)
(1.02) "Down and Out in Bombay" (and Eric Warren Singer)
(1.03) "Strange Bedfellows" (and David Manson and Eric Warren Singer)
(1.12) ""All the Way From There Just to Get to Here"" (with Ken Kristensen)

Awards and nominations

In 2009, Lightfoot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for producing House of Saddam.^[4]

References

^ "Steve Lightfoot". Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
^ "Netflix orders limited drama series Behind Her Eyes". Netflix Media Center. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
^ Clarke, Stewart (25 January 2019). "'The Crown' Producers Making Psychological Thriller 'Behind Her Eyes' for Netflix". Variety. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
^ "House of Saddam". Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency. Retrieved 13 October 2014.