Kerry Daynes: On Screen
Discover the dynamic world of Kerry Daynes, where her expertise as a forensic psychologist meets the captivating realm of television. Dive into her impressive track record and learn how she brings complex topics to life on screen.
Unveiling the Presenter Behind the Screen
Expert Contributor | TV Presenter | Forensic Psychology Specialist | True Crime Broadcasting
Three decades working inside prisons, secure psychiatric units, courtrooms, and police stations — sitting across the table from killers, sex offenders, stalkers, and survivors — gives Kerry something no casting call can manufacture: the real thing, who can make sense of it, on camera, for any audience.
Kerry's Unique Approach to Presenting
Television Track Record
Kerry is best known to audiences as 'The Profiler' on HBO Max and Discovery's Faking It: Tears of a Crime — one of the most familiar faces in UK true crime broadcasting. She offers authoritative, accessible expert commentary on forensic psychology, psychological profiling, offender motivation, victim impact, and extreme personality and criminal behaviour.
Kerry has contributed to productions for:
BBC · ITV · Channel 4 · Channel 5 · Sky · Discovery · Crime+Investigation · Curiosity Stream · True Crime · Netflix · and many more major UK and international broadcasters


Personality that performs
Warm, witty, self-deprecating, and fearlessly candid. Kerry brings human connection to subjects most contributors treat with either grim solemnity or prurient excitement. She is the colleague you want in the edit as much as on the shoot.
A Presenter Who Carries a Show
Kerry is not simply a talking-head expert. She is a fully capable television presenter — with narrative instinct, screen confidence, and the warmth to keep a mainstream audience with her from open to close.
She has fronted single documentaries, long-running series, panel formats, and live television. She has the scientific authority to satisfy editorial standards and the human touch to make complex psychology feel urgent and personal. She knows how to tell a story, not just explain one.
Frontline experience that cannot be faked
Kerry spent her early career inside maximum security prisons and forensic psychiatric units before she ever stepped in front of a camera. She has assessed, treated, and worked clinically with some of Britain's most notorious individuals — including Dennis Nilsen and Charles Bronson. When she speaks on screen, audiences feel the difference, even when they cannot name it.
The scientist who can also tell a story
Forensic expertise and storytelling flair rarely coexist in the same contributor. Kerry is a Sunday Times bestselling author whose books marry rigorous psychological insight with compelling human narrative. That quality translates directly to screen.
Ethics that hold up to scrutiny
Kerry is an award-winning anti-stalking campaigner, Trustee of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, and Chair of the National Stalking Consortium. In true crime content that is increasingly scrutinised for ethics and sensitivity, her track record gives commissioners genuine confidence.
She does not sensationalise
Kerry never glamourises offenders, dehumanises victims, or sacrifices truth for spectacle. This is a personal value — and increasingly, it is what discerning audiences and commissioning editors demand.
Work with Kerry
All television and broadcast enquiries are handled through Kerry's management:
Sylvia Tidy-Harris | Tidy Management
Phone
+44 (0)20 388 60125
+44 (0)7970 646872
sylvia@tidymanagement.com
Address
The Office, 1 Pickering Drive, Ellistown, Leicestershire, LE67 1HB, UK
Collaborate with Kerry
Interested in working with Kerry? Whether it's for a television project, speaking engagement, or collaboration, get in touch to explore possibilities.