Jason Watkins

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Jason Watkins’ theatre credits include Frozen (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Twits (Royal Court Theatre), Strange Interlude (National Theatre), Farewell to the Theatre (Hampstead Theatre), Bingo (Chichester Festival Theatre), A Handful of Dust (Cambridge Theatre Company), A Laughing Matter (National Theatre and Out of Joint) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Almeida Theatre).

His television work includes Around the World in 80 Days, Des, Hitman, The Crown, Trollied (as series regular Gavin Strong), A Very English Scandal, Hold the Sunset, Decline and Fall, Safe House, Line of Duty, Are You Being Served?, Taboo, The Secret, W1A, The Hollow Crown, Our Zoo, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries (BAFTA for Best Actor), The Cruise, Atlantis, Miranda, Twenty Twelve, Dirk Gently (as DI Gilks), Bound, Body Fam, The Hour, The Wrong Mans, Jo Brand’s Little Cracker, Being Human (as series regular Herrick), Psychoville, Victoria Wood’s Christmas Special, Murderland, Lark Rise to Candleford, Wired, Little Dorrit, May Contain Nuts, Miss Austen Regrets, The Thick of It, Five Days, Housewife 49, The Last Detective, Funland, Elizabeth – The Virgin Queen, All About George, Peter Ackroyd’s Romantics, Bodies, Conviction, William and Mary, Sex Traffic, Family Business, In Denial of Murder, Bodily Harm, The Russian Bride, Sex ‘n’ Death, Couples, Grown Ups, and The Buddha of Suburbia; and for film, Wicked Little Letters, We Are Where We Are, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Children Act, Hampstead, Nativity!, Nativity! 2, Nativity! 3, The Cruise, Lost Christmas, Wild Child, The Golden Compass, Sixty Six, Confetti, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Sabotage, Circus, Eugene Onegin, High Hopes, and Split Second.