Euros LYN

Career

Lyn started out directing Welsh-language shows broadcast on S4C such as Pam Fi Duw?, Iechyd Da and Y Glas. He also directed David Tennant"s last episodes of Doctor Who. In 2007, he directed the pilot of George Gently, based on the Inspector Gently novels by Alan Hunter, for British Broadcasting Corporation One.

He has also directed four episodes of the long-running British Broadcasting Corporation medical drama Casualty.

In 2013 he directed three episodes of Broadchurch with David Tennant and Olivia Colman, and a further three episodes of the second installment of British Academy of Film and Television Arts-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 British Broadcasting Corporation One in 2014.

He also directed episodes of Gracepoint (FOX United States of America), Cucumber (Channel 4) and Daredevil (Netflix United States of America). In the same year, he directed the three-part British Broadcasting Corporation series Capital based on John Lanchester"s novel of the same name.

Lyn is currently working on his first feature film, the Welsh-language Y Llyfrgell (The Library Suicides) starring Ryland Teifi, Catrin Stewart, Dyfan Dwyfor and Sharon Haf Morgan.

Achievements

• He directed nine episodes of Doctor Who and won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts 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". Lyn won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts 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 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Drama awards. He also directed Fifteen Million Merits, part of the Black Mirror first trilogy for Channel 4, which won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series. In 2015 the show won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for Best Drama Series. In 2015 Lyn received the Siân Phillips Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Cymru ceremony for his contributions to the industry.