Celyn Jones

Acting

Celyn Jones

Born

1979-06-04 (47)

Place of birth

Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Celyn Jones is a Welsh actor born and raised in Holyhead on the island of Anglesey. His father was a sailor and mother a baker. Aged 15 Celyn attended the Manchester Youth Theatre where he gained life long creative & personal relationships. At 18 he won a scholarship to the prestigious Oxford School of Drama where he received a strong classical training. Since graduating he has secured a reputation as a very talented and versatile character actor. On TV & Film he has worked with some of the most talented and respected Directors & Actors around. Throughout his career he's returned to the Theatre and achieved critical success with each performance be it playing a "Definitive" Tony Lumpkin in …

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

The Last Bus poster
6.5

Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.

The Last Bus

2021

A Christmas Gift from Bob poster
6.7

James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas.

A Christmas Gift from Bob

2020

On the Sea poster
6.9

In a rural town in North Wales, mussel harvester Jack has been married to his wife Maggie for over half of his life. He is troubled by his son Tom, who has little interest in the family trade. When Jack crosses paths with Daniel, an itinerant deckhand, their attraction poses an impossible dilemma.

On the Sea

2025

Six Minutes to Midnight poster
6.2

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

Six Minutes to Midnight

2020

The Almond and the Seahorse poster
4.9

For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on them, determined not to let them unravel.

The Almond and the Seahorse

2022

Acrimonious poster
NR

Returning to the London council house he grew up in after a non-acrimonious divorce, Emeka's caught between worlds - left wondering how to belong.

Acrimonious

2020

Chuck Chuck Baby poster
6.7

Helen's mundane life at the chicken factory takes an unexpected turn with Joanne's return. They were each other's secret teenage passion. As they fall in love, Helen's zest for life returns but Joanne faces something darker from her past.

Chuck Chuck Baby

2024

Swede Caroline poster
4.9

Competitive vegetable growers investigate the theft of prize marrow plants and uncover a tangled conspiracy.

Swede Caroline

2024

Venice at Dawn poster
NR

It is based on the classic British stage farce and a comedy of misunderstandings centered around a relationship break up and a painting which is called Venice at Dawn.

Venice at Dawn

2022

Black Church Bay poster
NR

In a sleepy Welsh fishing village, Barry’s life starts to unravel after an intimate encounter with a younger man.

Black Church Bay

2026

2010s · 10 titles

The Current War poster
6.7

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

The Current War

2018

Mr. Jones poster
6.7

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

Mr. Jones

2019

Submergence poster
5.5

While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

Submergence

2018

A Poet in New York poster
5.1

In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and to wallow in New York acclaim - but what was he escaping? How did such a triumph become a requiem? The last days of a great poet.

A Poet in New York

2014

Castles in the Sky poster
6.0

England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the mere idea of radar into a functional reality.

Castles in the Sky

2014

Chasing Robert Barker poster
4.0

A photographer turned paparazzi is caught in the downward spiral of a fabricated tabloid story.

Chasing Robert Barker

2015

Set Fire to the Stars poster
5.6

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

Set Fire to the Stars

2014

Born a King poster
7.4

A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abd Al-Aziz, on a high stakes diplomatic mission to secure the formation of his country.

Born a King

2019

Say My Name poster
7.2

Mary and Statton's one-night stand at a hotel gets interrupted by a robbery, and the complete strangers are forced to help each other navigate the seedy underbelly of a sleepy Welsh island in order to get back their stolen property.

Say My Name

2018

The Red Line poster
NR

Three strangers in London find themselves on the last tube heading east: Berto, a lost Italian tourist, Denise, a young woman terrified by the city and Cherub, a baby-faced singer with a dangerous mind. An adaptation of a Charlie Higson short story.

The Red Line

2014

Undated · 4 titles

Mine for a Moment poster
NR

After years of miscarriages, a woman cannot face another loss and commits an irreversible act at the expense of someone else.

Mine for a Moment

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No artwork available
NR

In a world obsessed with knowing the future, we find Alberto, a Colombian immigrant working as a massage therapist in the City of London. Mild-mannered, almost shy, he blends into the multi-ethnic city to which he has come to earn money to pay for his mother's operation back home. The streets of London aren't paved with gold but with old chip wrappers, and Alberto has found himself trapped in a vicious circle. Staying in London beyond his plans, the fervently religious man becomes obsessed that God has a destiny marked out for him. Everywhere he begins to see signs - on the streets, in bars and most potently on the clients he massages. When one day, a 'third-way' politician, Jackie Jordan, visits the spa Alberto sees a sign that will set him on the path to his ultimate destiny. Absorbing the Bible, Nostradamus, Palmistry and the Qur'an in its mythology, this is a taut, poignant East London based thriller with a supernatural twist.

The White Room

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No artwork available
NR

A young boy is sent to spend a summer with his charismatic and eccentric grandfather on a remote Welsh farm. Expecting dull days and strict rules, the boy instead stumbles into a world of delightful chaos and imagination – where outrageous stories are spun, and a world of wonder, memory, and mischief unfolds.

A Visit to Grandpa’s

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No artwork available
NR

A passionate group of film-makers, tell the comedic tale of two brothers negotiating the trials and tribulations of producing a Hollywood film.

In Hope of Nothing

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Series credits

Casualty poster
6.2

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Casualty

1986

Shameless poster
7.6

The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.

Shameless

2004

Endeavour poster
8.1

The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

Endeavour

2013

Torchwood poster
7.3

The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

Torchwood

2006

Law & Order: UK poster
7.0

Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.

Law & Order: UK

2009

The Librarians: The Next Chapter poster
6.6

A Librarian from the past time travels to the present and finds himself stuck here. When he returns to his castle, which is now a museum, he inadvertently releases magic across the continent. He is given a new team to help him clean up the mess he made, forming a new team of Librarians.

The Librarians: The Next Chapter

2025

Above Suspicion poster
7.0

Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders left by an unknown serial killer. Each series is based on a novel by Lynda La Plante: Above Suspicion (2009), The Red Dahlia (2010), Deadly Intent (2011), and Silent Scream (2012).

Above Suspicion

2009

A Touch of Cloth poster
7.2

Hannah plays DI Jack Cloth, who is called in to investigate an apparent series of serial killings alongside his new partner, DC Anne Oldman, described as a "plucky, no-nonsense sidekick". Playing with the cliches and conventions of British police dramas, subplots include Cloth dealing with visions of his dead wife and the bisexual DC Oldman coming to grips with her feelings for both her female fiancee and Cloth.

A Touch of Cloth

2012

Manhunt poster
7.1

The true story of London Metropolitan police detective Colin Sutton's manhunt for serial criminals.

Manhunt

2019

Jo poster
6.3

Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It is co-produced by the French Atlantique Productions and the Belgian Stromboli Pictures companies in association with broadcast partners TF1, RTBF, Sat.1, ORF and RTS.

Jo

2013

Shackleton poster
7.2

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

Shackleton

2002

No artwork available
7.0

The Bench is an English-language legal drama series set in a Welsh magistrate's court, produced by BBC Wales, initially broadcast on BBC One Wales and later repeated across the BBC network in an afternoon slot. The series won three BAFTA Cymru awards in 2003, with Eiry Thomas winning Best Actress, Bill Broomfield winning Best Director of Photography - Drama and William Oswald winning Best Editor.

The Bench

2001

Leaving poster
6.2

A bond between a troubled 25-year-old Aaron Simmons and Julie Ranmore a 44-year-old mother of two, whose marriage has lost all passion, has profound implications for both.

Leaving

2012

Behind the camera

The Vanishing poster
5.8

Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

The Vanishing

2019

Poms poster
6.6

After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at-heart seniors, though they face roadblocks along the way.

Poms

2019

Six Minutes to Midnight poster
6.2

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

Six Minutes to Midnight

2020

Madfabulous poster
6.6

When the flamboyant Henry Paget arrives in 1890s North Wales to claim his aristocratic inheritance, his theatrical flair and defiant eccentricities send shockwaves through the upper-class elite, much to the amusement of the local townspeople. Alongside his spirited cousin, Lily, and loyal butler, Gelert, Henry tries to carve out his own identity as the Fifth Marquess, navigating suffocating traditions, scheming relatives, and the long shadow cast by his estranged father.

Madfabulous

2026

The Almond and the Seahorse poster
4.9

For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on them, determined not to let them unravel.

The Almond and the Seahorse

2022

The Almond and the Seahorse poster
4.9

For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on them, determined not to let them unravel.

The Almond and the Seahorse

2022

Mountain poster
NR

In 1980s Wales, a neglected, young man named GG seeks friendship and community. He meets Bill, who lives in isolation on the mountain. Their lives collide by chance forming a brief but enduring connection, proving that, even though the world can appear cruel, life is inherently good and will find a way to survive.

Mountain

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Mountain poster
NR

In 1980s Wales, a neglected, young man named GG seeks friendship and community. He meets Bill, who lives in isolation on the mountain. Their lives collide by chance forming a brief but enduring connection, proving that, even though the world can appear cruel, life is inherently good and will find a way to survive.

Mountain

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Set Fire to the Stars poster
5.6

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

Set Fire to the Stars

2014