Celyn Jones

Actor / Writer / Director

Biography

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.

Credits

Film

Production Character Director Company
BLACK CHURCH BAY Andrews Rhys Marc Jones BBC Film
MARCEL ET MONSIEUR PAGNOL Fernandel Sylvain Chomet Sony Pictures Classics
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
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
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

Credits

Film

Production Company Notes
MADFABULOUS
2024
Mad As Birds

OUT IN CINEMAS JUNE 5th 2026 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

Production Company Notes
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

Production Company Notes
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

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