Jason Watkins

Jason Watkins is an acclaimed, award-winning British stage and screen actor.

Jason Watkins recently starred in The Seagull at the Barbican Theatre in London

On stage, Jason’s credits include A Servant to Two Masters for the RSC/Young Vic/West End (nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor), Frozen (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Twits, Boy Gets Girl, Rafts and Dreams, King Lear (Royal Court Theatre), Strange Interlude, Landscape with Weapon, Our Class, Inadmissible Evidence (National Theatre), A Laughing Matter (National Theatre and Out of Joint), The Plantagenets, The Plain Dealer (RSC), Blue Kettle and Hearts Desire (Out of Joint), The Late Henry Moss, A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream (Almeida Theatre), A Farewell to the Theatre (Hampstead Theatre), The Dumb Waiter (Oxford Playhouse), and Arden of Faversham (Old Red Lion).

Jason Watkins’ TV credits include playing the title role in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the Best Actor BAFTA. Other television includes The Crown (as Harold Wilson – SAG Award for Best Ensemble), McDonald and Dodds (as series regular DS Dodds), Anansi Boys, Des, Archie, Coma, The Catch, The Trick, Line of Duty, Taboo, Inside No 9, A Very English Scandal, Friday Night Dinner, Trollied, W1A, the animated series Batman Caped Crusader (as Pennyworth), Being Human, Housewife 49, Sex Traffic, Little Dorrit, Funland, Are You Being Served, and the documentary – Jason and Clara In Memory of Maudie.

Jason’s film credits include The Phoenician Scheme, The Nest, Wicked Little Letters, Hampstead, The Children Act, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Wild Child, Nativity! film series (as Gordon Shakespeare), Bridget Jones – The Edge of Reason, and High Hopes; and the short film, The One Note Man (Greece International Film Festival Best Actor, Richard Harris Best Actor Award).

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