Orla Doherty

Orla Doherty is an Irish producer with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit. She is known for producing The Deep and co-producing Our Blue Planet episodes for the BBC's Blue Planet II.

Early life and career Doherty's family comes from Donegal, Ireland. She has a degree in chemistry. She began working in television for DEF II, a part of BBC Two. At 30 she tried scuba diving for the first time during a trip to Thailand, which led her to move away at 31 to start studying coral reefs for a non-governmental organization, the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation. She spent most of the next 10 years on a ship studying the reefs in the Pacific Ocean. In 2019, she became co-executive producer on the documentary series Mission OceanX.

Blue Planet II Doherty worked as a producer for Blue Planet II for four years. She was one of the first people to go that deep in the Antarctic. She was among the team that filmed a whale fall for the first time in the Atlantic Ocean.