Misplaced Pages

Euros Lyn

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Welsh film and television director (born 1971)

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Euros Lyn" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Euros Lyn
Lyn at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Cardiff, Wales
Occupation(s)Film and television director
Years active1997–present
Spouse Craig Hughes ​(m. 2015)​

Euros Lyn (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɛɨ̯.rɔs ˈlɪn]; born 1971) is a Welsh film and television director, best known for his work in Doctor Who, Sherlock, Black Mirror, Daredevil, His Dark Materials and Heartstopper.

Early life

Lyn was born in Cardiff. His family moved to north Wales and later back south to Swansea. He was educated at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera and studied Drama at the University of Manchester.

Career

Euros Lyn (at right) with actor David Tennant at 2009 San Diego Comic-Con

Lyn started his career directing Welsh-language programmes broadcast on S4C, such as Pam Fi Duw?, Iechyd Da and Y Glas.

He directed nine episodes of Doctor Who and won the BAFTA Cymru award for Best Director for "Silence in the Library" and the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for "The Girl in the Fireplace". He also directed David Tennant's (first)last episodes of Doctor Who.

In 2007, he directed the pilot of George Gently, based on the Inspector Gently novels by Alan Hunter, for BBC One. He has also directed four episodes of the long-running BBC medical drama Casualty.

In 2008, he directed Children of Earth, the five-episode Torchwood mini-series (often called series 3 of the show).

Lyn won the BAFTA Cymru for Best Director three times, most recently for the first series of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, which also won RTS and BAFTA Best Drama awards. He also directed Fifteen Million Merits, an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror for Channel 4, which won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series. In 2013 he directed three episodes of Broadchurch with David Tennant and Olivia Colman, and a further three episodes of the second instalment of BAFTA-winning series Last Tango in Halifax, after directing three episodes of the first series.

The crime series Happy Valley, which Lyn directed, was shown on BBC One in 2014. In 2015 the show won the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series. He also directed episodes of Gracepoint (FOX USA), Cucumber (Channel 4) and Daredevil (Netflix USA).

In 2015 Lyn received the Siân Phillips Award at the BAFTA Cymru ceremony for his contributions to the industry. In the same year, he directed the three-part BBC series Capital based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name.

In 2016 Lyn directed his first feature film, the Welsh-language Y Llyfrgell [cy], which was released with English subtitles as The Library Suicides and was based on Fflur Dafydd's book Y Llyfrgell. The film starred Ryland Teifi, Catrin Stewart, Dyfan Dwyfor and Sharon Haf Morgan.

Personal life

A Welsh speaker, Lyn resides in Llangennith, Gower, with his husband Craig Hughes.

Credits

Year Title Notes Broadcaster
1997 Pam fi Duw? Series 1 S4C
2000 Diwrnod Hollol Mindblowing Heddiw (cy) TV movie S4C
2000 Belonging 4 episodes BBC One Wales
2002 A Mind to Kill Episode: "The Little House in the Forest" Channel 5/S4C
2002–2003 Casualty 4 episodes BBC One
2004 Cutting It 1 episode BBC One
2005–2006;
2008–2010 		Doctor Who 12 episodes BBC One
2005 All About George 2 episodes ITV1
2006 Jane Hall 3 episodes ITV1
2007 George Gently Pilot BBC One
2008 Fairy Tales Episode: "Billy Goat" BBC One
Phoo Action Pilot BBC Three
2009 Torchwood 5 episodes BBC One
2010 Sherlock Episode: "The Blind Banker" BBC One
Upstairs, Downstairs 2 episodes BBC One
2011 Black Mirror Episode: "Fifteen Million Merits" Channel 4
2012–2013 Last Tango in Halifax 6 episodes BBC One
2013 Broadchurch 3 episodes ITV1
2014 Happy Valley 3 episodes BBC One
Gracepoint 2 episodes Fox
2015 Cucumber 2 episodes Channel 4
2015–2016 Daredevil 2 episodes Netflix
2015 Capital Series BBC One
2016 Y Llyfrgell / The Library Suicides Film S4C, Blinc Media
Damilola, Our Loved Boy TV movie BBC One
2017 Let the Right One In Pilot TNT
2018 Kiri Miniseries Channel 4
2019 His Dark Materials Episode: "The Daemon-Cage" BBC One
2020 Dream Horse Film
2022–2023 Heartstopper 16 episodes Netflix
2024 The Radleys Film

References

  1. "Torchwood Series 3 Confirmed". BBC. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
  2. Share 1 (16 September 2015). "Euros Lyn to be honoured with Sian Phillips Award". BAFTA. Retrieved 13 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. "BBC One: Capital". BBC. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  4. Eryl Crump (17 September 2015). "Broadchurch director Euros Lyn makes debut feature film... in a library". WalesOnline.
  5. "JustGiving.com". Justgiving.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  6. "BAFTA Cymru 2015 full ceremony part 3". 1 October 2015. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2017 – via YouTube.

External links

Categories: