Keri Collins (born 1978) is a BAFTA winning director and writer for film and television. He has written and directed for the BBC, Sky TV, Netflix, The Sunday Times and PBS.
Collins was born in Pontypool, Wales. He was selected for the prestigious Guiding Lights scheme in 2008 and, as a result, was mentored by Sir Kenneth Branagh.[1]
Collins' short film 'FUNDAY' was an official selection at the Raindance Film Festival 2011. It was acquired for distribution by Shorts International, nominated for a BAFTA Cymru award for Best Short film and described by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) as "Deliciously melancholic".[2]
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh is a Northern Irish actor, director, film producer, and screenwriter. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London; in 2015 he succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989), for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006).
Dawn Roma French is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter. French is best known for starring in and writing for the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.
Julia Charlotte L. Davis is an English comedian, actress, writer, and director. She is known for writing and starring in the BBC Three comedy Nighty Night (2004–2005) and the comedies Hunderby (2012–2015) and Camping (2016), which she also directed. An eight-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won Best Comedy Writing for Hunderby in 2013. She is also known for playing Dawn Sutcliffe in Gavin & Stacey. Her film roles include Love Actually (2003), Cemetery Junction (2010) and Four Lions (2010) and the critically acclaimed Phantom Thread (2017) starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Davis created Sally4Ever in 2018, which won a British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy in May 2019.
Euros Lyn is a Welsh television director.
Matthew Rhys Evans is a Welsh actor. He is known for playing Kevin Walker in Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011) and Philip Jennings in The Americans (2013–2018), for which he received two Golden Globe Award nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award. In film, he has appeared as Dylan Thomas in the film The Edge of Love (2008), Daniel Ellsberg in the film The Post (2017) and starred in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019).
Ruth Alexandra Elisabeth Jones is a Welsh actress, writer, and producer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the award-winning BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, and has appeared in various television comedies and dramas, including Fat Friends (2000–2005), Little Britain (2003–2005), Little Britain Abroad (2006–2007), Saxondale (2006–2007), The Street (2009), Hattie (2011), and Stella (2012–2017) for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award and won three BAFTA. Jones was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to entertainment.
Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, writer, director, and singer. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
Robert Neil Evans is a Welsh playwright and actor.
Kevin Edward Allen is an English film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor. Allen came to prominence with the BBC film "On the March with Bobby's Army", and for writing and directing his debut feature movie, the Welsh cult classic Twin Town. He directed and co-wrote the movie adaptation of Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood", submitted for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2015 Oscars ceremony but not nominated, the Hollywood feature films, The Big Tease and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, and the first series of ITV's Benidorm, along with numerous other films and documentaries.
Matt Bloom is an Emmy winning and BAFTA-nominated British director of television, commercials and short films, and a graduate of the International Film School Wales.
Philip John is a director and screenwriter. He is the managing director of his own production company, Orange River Ltd, named after the River Ebbw, which, in the 1960s, was one of the most polluted waterways in Europe.
Donna Edwards is a Bafta award-winning Welsh actress, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and lives in Cardiff.
Craig Haydn Roberts is a Welsh actor, writer and director. He is best known for his lead roles as Oliver Tate in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Submarine (2010), David Meyers in the series Red Oaks (2014–2017), and for playing Rio Wellard in the television series The Story of Tracy Beaker (2004–2005).
Sara Lloyd-Gregory, also billed as Sara Gregory, is a Welsh actress. She is known for her leading role in the S4C drama series Alys, and appearing in the Sky1 series Thorne: Sleepyhead.
Aneirin Hughes is a Welsh actor and singer known for playing Chief Superintendent Brian Prosser in the BBC4 Welsh police drama Hinterland. He won a Best Actor BAFTA Cymru for his appearance as Delme in Cameleon (1997), a Welsh language film.
Jon Jones is a Film and Television writer and director working primarily in the UK and USA. He has directed numerous dramas for British and American Television including the award-winning 'When I'm Sixty-Four’, 'The Diary of Anne Frank', 'Blood Strangers’, “The Alan Clark Diaries, ’A Very Social Secretary’, ‘Northanger Abbey’, 'Zen', 'Mr Selfridge' and 'Going Postal'.
John Hefin MBE was a Welsh television director and head of drama at BBC Wales. He began working for the BBC in 1960, and his career at the corporation included devising the long-running Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm, co-writing and directing the comedy film Grand Slam, and directing the 1981 biopic The Life and Times of David Lloyd George. He was later involved with the work of Film Cymru, the Film Commission Wales, and the media journal Cyfrwng. He also worked in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. He died from cancer in November 2012.
Ray Panthaki is a British actor, producer, writer and director.
Alex Kalymnios is an English director, producer and screenwriter.
John Giwa-Amu is a film producer best known for sci-fi thriller, The Machine, Little White Lies, Don't Knock Twice, The Call Up and The Party. He runs a production, distribution and financing company called Red & Black Films alongside writer/director Caradog James.
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