Jason Peter Watkins was born on 28 October 1962 and is an English stage, film and television actor.
23 Facts About Jason Watkins
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Jason Watkins played the lead role in the two-part drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor.
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Jason Watkins's father Alan was a metallurgist at Marston in Wolverhampton and his mother a teacher at Albrighton's primary school.
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Jason Watkins furthered his acting skills as a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating in 1985 with an Acting.
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Jason Watkins was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Servant For Two Masters at the.
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Jason Watkins played Oswald Cooper in "The Great and the Good", an episode of Lewis; Plornish in the 2008 BBC production of Little Dorrit; and Cabbage Patterson in the BBC adaptation of Lark Rise to Candleford.
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Jason Watkins had a cameo as Gene Hunt's dissolute lawyer Colin Merric, in episode seven of the second series of Life on Mars.
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Jason Watkins then featured in the second series of the BBC's comedy Psychoville, as Peter Bishop, owner of Hoyti Toyti, an antique shop specialising in toys.
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Jason Watkins won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for this role.
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In 2016, Jason Watkins played the role of Pastor Hansford in the four-part ITV drama The Secret.
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Jason Watkins appeared in two episodes of The Hollow Crown and played the role of Malcolm Turner in the BBC sitcom series Love, Nina.
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In 2017, Jason Watkins played Solomon Coop, private secretary to the Prince Regent, in the BBC One series Taboo.
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Also on BBC One, Jason Watkins performed as Wilfred Lucas-Dockery, the governor of the prison in the third episode of the BBC's adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel Decline and Fall.
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Jason Watkins played Simon in the second series of the ITV drama Safe House in 2017, as well as playing Tim Ifield in the fourth series of Line of Duty.
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In 2018, Jason Watkins narrated the Channel 5 historical documentary Inside the Tower of London which focused the history of the iconic landmark and the daily lives of London's Yeoman Warders, known as Beefeaters.
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In 2019, Jason Watkins played Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the third series of the Netflix drama The Crown.
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In 2022, Jason Watkins appeared as Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the series SAS: Rogue Heroes.
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In 2023, Jason Watkins starred as Ed Collier in the Channel 5 series The Catch, alongside Aneurin Barnard and Poppy Gilbert.
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Jason Watkins played Gordon Shakespeare in the first three films in the Nativity series.
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Jason Watkins is married to jewellery and fashion designer Clara Francis.
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Jason Watkins dedicated his 2015 BAFTA award to her and campaigns for greater awareness of sepsis.
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Jason Watkins is a Patron of Child Bereavement UK, a charity that supports children, young people and families when a child grieves or when a child dies.
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Jason Watkins has two sons from his first marriage to actress.