Luke Snellin was born in Romford, Essex. He was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award in 2010 for his short film Mixtape (2009) and named as one of Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow" and one of Broadcast Magazine's "Hot Shots".

After directing on shows My Mad Fat Diary (2013), Banana (2015) and The A Word (2016) he was the lead director on Wanderlust (2018) written by Nick Payne, starring Toni Collette and Temple (2019) written by Mark O'Rowe, starring Mark Strong.

His debut feature film is Let It Snow (2019), an adaptation of John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle's YA novel starring Isabela Merced, Shameik Moore, Odeya Rush, Kiernan Shipka and Joan Cusack. The film was released by Netflix in 2019 and was nominated for a GLAAD award in 2020.

In 2021 he won an RTS award for his directing work on Mae Martin and Joe Hampson's show Feel Good (2020) starring Mae Martin, Charlotte Ritchie and Lisa Kudrow. The show also won the NME Award for Best TV Series and was ranked at number 6 on The Guardian's 50 best TV shows of 2021.

He directed four episodes of One Day (2024), Nicole Taylor's adaptation of David Nicholls' much loved book that debuted to critical and audience acclaim on Netflix in February 2024 and was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in the Limited Drama category in March 2025.

Snellin also directed and executive produced all four episodes of Warp Films mini series Reunion (2025) which began airing on BBC One in April 2025 and stars Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Eddie Marsan and Rose Ayling-Ellis.

The show is a bilingual drama written by deaf writer William Mager, featuring both spoken English and British Sign Language and called "groundbreaking" by The Standard and an "absolute revelation" by The Guardian.

He lives in South East London with his wife and two children.

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