Rachel Talalay

Rachel Talalay is an American director, who directed the Doctor Who stories Dark Water / Death in Heaven in 2014, as the two-parter finale for Series 8. She is the first woman in the show's history to direct a finale episode.

Outside Doctor Who
She is known for films such as Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare in 1991, Ghost in the Machine in 1993, and The Wind in the Willows in 2006.