Celyn Jones
Acting
Film, TV & Theatre
Voiceover
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
Production | Character | Director | Company |
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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
Production | Character | Director | Company |
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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
Production | Character | Director | Company |
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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
Production | Company | Notes |
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MADFABULOUS 2024 | Mad As Birds | Director |
THE ALMOND AND THE SEAHORSE 2022 | Mad As Birds / IFC Films US / Picnic Ent / Bankside Films | Writer and Director. |
SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT 2020 | Ffilm Cymru Wales / Lionsgate / IFC Films US / Sky | Writer and Executive Producer. |
POMS 2019 | Entertainment One / Universal | Producer. |
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 |
SET FIRE TO THE STARS 2014 | Mad As Birds / Channel 4 / Strand Releasing (US) | Writer. *Nominated in 7 categories, including Best Feature and Best Writer, at BAFTA Wales Awards, 2015. *Nominated, Audience Award, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2014. |
In Development
Production | Company | Notes |
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KUJI | Big Talk productions | Writer. |
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
Production | Company | Notes |
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SEA CHANGE 2012 | Producer. | |
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 |