Grace Hughes-Hallett

Grace Hughes-Hallett (b. 1986) is a British documentary filmmaker and podcaster. She has won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival and a Grierson Award, been nominated for a BAFTA, and a Primetime Emmy and shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards.

Life Hughes-Hallett is the daughter of Thomas Hughes-Hallett and Jules (Juliet) Hughes-Hallett (nee Rugge-Price). She has two brothers, Archie and Arthur, and a sister, Emily, who died in infancy. she studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. Hughes-Hallett is married to Daniel Susskind, an economist. The couple have three children.

Work Hughes-Hallett has worked in documentary filmmaking variously as cinematographer, director, producer and writer.

Hughes-Hallett pitched the idea for the 2018 award-winning documentary film Three Identical Strangers in 2013 to Raw TV, and was the original director of the documentary. She co-produced the film along with Becky Read. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling. In May 2025 The Secret of Me won the Out in the Silence Award at the Frameline Film Festival.

Hughes-Hallett is the host of Dangerous Memories, a documentary podcast series with Tortoise Media. It was ranked at no. 5 in a list of the 20 best podcasts of 2024 by The Guardian.

Selected filmography

Date Title Type Contribution 2025 The Secret of Me Documentary Director 2021 The Princes and the Press Documentary (BBC2, 2 episodes) Producer and Director 2018 Three Identical Strangers Documentary Producer (original Director, replaced) 2017 Extreme Wives with Kate Humble (Episode 2: Israel) Documentary (BBC) Producer and Director 2017 Diabulimia: The World's Most Dangerous Eating Disorder Documentary (BBC) Director and Cinematographer 2016 Drugs Map of Britain. Alcohol: Britain's Most Harmful Drug Documentary (BBC) Producer and Director 2016 Louis Theroux: A Different Brain Documentary (BBC) Assistant Producer 2016 Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion Documentary (BBC) Assistant Producer (as Grace Hughes-Hallet) 2016 The Cost of Cute: The Dark Side of the Puppy Trade Documentary short (BBC) Producer, Director and Cinematographer 2012 The Dark Matter of Love Documentary (BBC) Producer (as Grace Hughes-Hallet)