Celyn Jones

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Assistant: Ellie James

Film, TV & Theatre

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Associate Agent: Jennifer Karniely

Acting

Celyn won the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor, for his "Transformative" and "Terrifying" performance of a real life serial killer in MANHUNT.

His directorial debut, The Almond and the Seahorse, in which he stars opposite Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg, recently premiered at Zurich and Dinard Film festivals where he won The Special Jury prize. 

Film

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

ON THE SEA

Dyfan

Helen Walsh

Red Union Films

CHUCK CHUCK BABY

Gary

Janis Pugh

BBC Films/BFI

SWEDE CAROLINE

Willy

Finn Bruce & Brook Driver

Belstone Pictures

THE ALMOND AND THE SEAHORSE

Joe

Celyn Jones & Tom Stern

MAB Films

VENICE AT DAWN

Detective Symonds

Jamie Adams

Sulk Youth Films

THE LAST BUS

Dr Martin

Gillies McKinnon

Hurricane Films

A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM BOB

Mick

Charles Martin Smith

Lionsgate

SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

Corporal Willis

Andy Goddard

Lionsgate/Mad as Birds Films

IN HOPE OF NOTHING

Lenard

Peter Hamblin

Hamblin Imagery

BORN A KING

Winston Churchill

Agustí Villaronga

Celtic Films

MR JONES

Matthew

Agnieszka Holland

Samuel Goldwyn Films

SAY MY NAME

Kipper

Jay Stern

Electric Company

SUBMERGENCE

Thumbs

Wim Wenders

Back Up Media/Neue Road

THE CURRENT WAR

Sherman Quincey

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The Weinstein Company

MARYLINE

Jacky Conwell

Guillaume Gallienne

Gaumont

THE WHITE ROOM

Father Marcus

James Erskine

New Black Films

CHASING ROBERT BARKER

Blonde Man

Daniel Florencio

I Made It Films

SET FIRE TO THE STARS

Dylan Thomas

Andy Goddard

Mad as Birds Films

HONEY AND RAZOR BLADES

Mark

Tinge Krishnan

Disruptive Element

LASSIE

Snickers

Charles Sturridge

Odyssey Entertainment

Television

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER

Cupid

Nemanja Cipranic

Electric Entertainment & Balkanic Media | CW

MANHUNT

Levi Bellfield

Marc Evans

ITV

CATASTROPHE

Aeron

Ben Taylor

Channel 4/Amazon

STELLA

Brother Alan

Various

Sky/Tidy

A TOUCH OF CLOTH

Villager 2

Jim O'Hanlon

Zeppotron

A POET IN NEW YORK

Felix Gerstman

Aisling Walsh

BBC

DA VINCI'S DEMONS

Fabrizio

Various

Starz

CASTLES IN THE SKY

Edward "Taffy" Bowen

Gillies MacKinnon

Hero Productions for BBC

ENDEAVOUR (SEASON 2)

Jenkins

Kristoffer Nyholm

Mammoth Screen

INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY (SEASON 6)

Francis Walsh

Tim Whitby

Company Pictures

MARPLE (SEASON 6)

Sergeant Keene

David Moore

ITV Studios

SHAMELESS (SEASON 11)

Joss

Tim Whitby

Channel 4

JO

Normand

Charlotte Seiling/Kristoffer Nyholm/Steffan Schwartz/Sheree Folkson

TF1/Fox

LEAVING

Hugh

Gabby Dellal

Red Productions/ITV

ABOVE SUSPICIAN (3 SERIES)

DS Barrolli

Gillies McKinnon/Catherine Morshead

La Plante Productions/ITV

JOE'S PALACE

Whittle

Stephen Poliakoff

BBC

TORCHWOOD

Gary

James Erskine

BBC

SHACKLETON

Perce Blackborow

Charles Sturridge

Channel 4

Stage

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

Tony Lumpkin

Braham Murray

Royal Exchange Theatre

GHOST CITY

Man

Simon Harris

Script Cymru - Cardiff/London/New York (off-broadway)

ALMOND AND THE SEAHORSE

Joe

Phillip Zarrilli

Sherman Cymru/National Tour

HENHOUSE

Alan

Bill Hopkinson

Arcola Theatre, London

BACKPACKER ORPHEUS

Mark

Tinge Krishnan

Disruptive Element @ The Sound Theatre, London

DAVID COPPERFIELD

Ham

Giles Havergal

West Yorkshire Playhouse

TOAD OF TOAD HALL

Mole

Gwenda Hughes

New Vic Theatre

SECOND FROM LAST IN THE SACKRACE

Henry Pratt

Laurie Sansom

New Victoria Theatre

LEAR

Grave Diggers Boy

Bill Hopkinson

Chapman Theatre

TWELFTH NIGHT

Sir Toby Belch

George Peck

Phoenix Theatre, Oxford

Film, TV & Theatre

Film

ProductionCompanyNotes

MADFABULOUS

2024

Mad As Birds

Director
Executive Producer - Mad As Birds.
Starring Callum Scott-Howells, Ruby Stokes, Rupert Everett, and Paul Rhys.
Billed as an “LGBTQ+ extravaganza,” written by Lisa Baker.
Based upon a true story of Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey: one of the richest men in Britain; an obscure theatrical dandy; a dreamer with no limits who inherited the equivalent of £11m a year and died penniless; lost, ill and forgotten at the age of twenty-nine in the south of France. A tale of the ultimate poor-little-rich-boy, a victim of excess and neglect - who spent more than he was given, gave more than he took but invited the world to look at him for what he truly was...a Twentieth Century Boy.

THE ALMOND AND THE SEAHORSE

2022

Mad As Birds / IFC Films US / Picnic Ent / Bankside Films

Writer and Director.
Starring Rebel Wilson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and others.
*Winner of The Special Jury prize at Dinard Film Festival 2022.
*Screened at Zurich International Film Festival 2022, Goteberg Film Festival 2022, and Focus Wales 2024

SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

2020

Ffilm Cymru Wales / Lionsgate / IFC Films US / Sky

Writer and Executive Producer.
Starring Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Izzard.
*Winner, Best Narrative Feature, ReFrame Stamp Awards 2021
*Nominated for Best British Film at the National Film Awards 2022
*Nominated for Best Actress at the BAFTA Cymru Awards 2021 - Judi Dench
*Nominated for Costume Designer at BAFTA Cymru Awards 2021 - Lucinda Wright

POMS

2019

Entertainment One / Universal

Producer.
Starring Diane Keaton.
Directed by Zara Hayes (THE KILLING KIND, SHOWTRIAL), POMS is a comedy about a group of women who form a cheer leading squad at their retirement community, proving that you're never too old to 'bring it!'.

THE VANISHING

2018

Mad As Birds / Lionsgate UK / Saban Films (US)

Writer and Executive Producer.

Starring Gerard Butler and Peter Mullan, and directed by Kristoffer Nyholm (TABOO, THE ENFIELD HAUNTING). Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance.

*Nominated for Best Film at Sitges 2018
*Nominated BIFA & BAFTA Scotland Best Actor 2019 for Peter Mullan.
*Screened at Glasgow International Film Festival 2018
*Nominated for Best Film at Golden Rooster Awards, China 2019

SET FIRE TO THE STARS

2014

Mad As Birds / Channel 4 / Strand Releasing (US)

Writer.
Starring Elijah Wood (The Lord of The Rings), An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell-raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

*Nominated in 7 categories, including Best Feature and Best Writer, at BAFTA Wales Awards, 2015.

*Nominated, Audience Award, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2014.
*Nominated, Michael Powell Award, Best British Feature, EIFF, 2014.
*Nominated, Best Screenplay and Audience Award, Miami International Film Festival, 2015.
*Winner of 4 awards at London Unrestricted View Film Festival, 2016 (Best Feature; Best Actor for Celyn Jones; Best Score; Best Editing).
*Screened at Cork International Film Festival 2014.
*Screened at Seattle International Film Festival 2015.
*Screened at Cinetopia International Film Festival 2015.

In Development

ProductionCompanyNotes

KUJI

Big Talk productions

Writer.
IN DEVELOPMENT

MINOTAUR

Mad As Birds/Media Musketeers/Abacus Media

Creator, Writer and Director.

A six-part international heightened thriller, in English with some French and set between Paris and North Wales. Lead by French-Moroccan actor Assaad Bouab (CALL MY AGENT, THE PURSUIT OF LOVE, BAD SISTERS).

THE NIGHT GUEST

2023

Mad As Birds

Writer and Director.

An adaptation of Australian author Fiona McFarlane’s 2013 novel of the same name. The thriller follows Ruth, a widow who wakes one day and believes a tiger has been in her seaside home. Later that day, a formidable woman called Frida arrives, looking as if she’s blown in from the sea. In fact, she’s come to care for Ruth. Frida and the tiger are both here to stay, and Ruth must decide who she can trust.

Short Films

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SEA CHANGE

2012

Producer.
Starring Jo Hartley, Toby Jones and Patrick Elue.
Carol Stewart, an English teacher at a special needs school, is in despair. She always wanted to make a difference, but who is she kidding? She hasn't got it in her. Locked in the school at the end of her last day, an encounter with a mysterious stranger gives her the opportunity to review her life. Directed by Marinella Setti (BERBARIAN SOUND STUDIO, RUSH).

PENPALS

2010

Writer and Director. Short Film.

A teenage girl reinvents the gang who bully her in a letter to herself, taking them and her on a journey of self discovery out of a south London council estate to the coast of Brighton. A right of passage which offers questions about choices we make and the ones that are made for us. It explores the feelings of being tipped out of the arms of childhood and into the unknown