Background
Chadwick was born in Salford, Lancashire.
Chadwick was born in Salford, Lancashire.
He attended Turton High School in Bolton, before graduating from Leicester Polytechnic and in 1991 made his screen debut in London Kills Maine. Other acting credits include The Loss of Sexual Innocence and appearances in the television dramas Heartbeat, Dangerfield, Dalziel and Pascoe and others
He began acting at the age of eleven. He joined Bolton Little Theatre and played Billy Casper in ‘Kes’. Chadwick"s directorial debut was the 1993 television film Family Style starring Ewan McGregor, after which he directed and performed in Shakespeare Shorts, a series that explored the history of Shakespearean characters and presented them in key scenes from the plays in which they appeared.
He directed episodes of EastEnders, Byker Grove, The Bill, Spooks and Red Cap before directing nine of the fifteen episodes of the mini-series Bleak House, which was broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom and by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series.
Chadwick was the director of The Other Boleyn Girl, which was shown at the February 2008 Berlin International Film Festival. He worked on screen adaptations of Birdsong (released 2012) and Jamaica Inn in 2008.
He completed the feature film The First Grader, which was released on 13 May 2010.