Jay Saighal

Acting

Jay Saighal

Chichester, Sussex, England, UK

Jay trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2014. Theatre includes: Great British Bake Off – The Musical (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Hedda Gabler (Sherman Theatre); Romeo and Juliet; Richard III (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Guards at the Taj (Singapore Repertory Theatre); The Cardinal (Southwark Playhouse); Ross (Chichester Festival Theatre); As You Like It; Macbeth; Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre); Imperium Part 1; Imperium Part II; Othello; The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); Aladdin (Stephen Joseph Theatre). TV includes: Our House; Casualty; Vera; Ackley Bridge; The Split; Spotless.

Acting credits

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning poster
7.2

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

2025

Macbeth (NT) poster
4.0

Originally staged as part of the National Theatre’s Shakespeare for younger audiences programme. This archival recording was captured in 2017. Amid bloody rebellion and the deafening drums of war, Macbeth and his wife will stop at nothing to fulfil their ambition. Witchcraft, murder, treason and treachery are all at play in this murky world. A bold contemporary retelling of one of Shakespeare’s darkest plays.

Macbeth (NT)

2017

National Theatre Collection: Romeo and Juliet poster
NR

A new version for younger audiences by Bijan Sheibani and Ben Power. Originally staged as part of the National Theatre’s Shakespeare for younger audiences programme. This archival recording was captured in 2017. This contemporary production sees a company of eight tell the most famous love story of all time, set against a vivid urban backdrop bursting with excitement, colour, dance and song. A swift, contemporary celebration of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Bijan Sheibani’s thrilling production brings Romeo and Juliet to life for a new generation.

National Theatre Collection: Romeo and Juliet

2017

RSC Live: Othello poster
10.0

Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies. But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own, men driven by prejudice and jealousy to destroy him. As they plot in the shadows, Othello realises too late that the greatest danger lies not in the hatred of others, but his own fragile and destructive pride.

RSC Live: Othello

2015

RSC Live: The Merchant of Venice poster
NR

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all - as long as they come prepared to do business and there is profit to be made. When the gold is flowing all is well - but when a contract between Bassanio and Shylock is broken, simmering racial tensions boil over. A wronged father, and despised outsider, Shylock looks to exact the ultimate price for a deal sealed in blood.

RSC Live: The Merchant of Venice

2015

National Theatre Live: As You Like It poster
9.0

With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden. There, released from convention, Rosalind experiences the liberating rush of transformation. Disguising herself as a boy, she embraces a different way of living and falls spectacularly in love.

National Theatre Live: As You Like It

2016