Who is The Catch actor Jason Watkins? – The US sun

JASON Watkins has become a familiar face on the box after appearing on high profile shows like Line of Duty and Doctor Who.

The sought-after actor has had an impressive career so far, which continues to rise.

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Who is Jason Watkins?

Jason Watkins was born in Albrighton, Shropshire on 30 July 1966 and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

He got his first role in the 1993 film Buddha of Suburbia, in which he played the role of Terry, and later played small roles in Hotel Babylon and Blue Murder.

Jason also began a stage career and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2001 for his performance in A Servant For Two Masters.

In 2009, he really broke onto television when he landed the role of powerful vampire William Herrick in the BBC Three horror comedy Being Human.

Jason is married to jewelry designer Calara Francis and they have two children, Bessie and Gilbert.

On New Year’s Day 2011, her daughter Maude died of sepsis at the age of only two and a half years.

Jason also has two sons from his first marriage.

What else was Jason in?

Jason is known for the series Miranda, Doctor Who and The Wrong Mans.

In 2014 he was cast as Simon Harwood in W1A, the sequel to the Bafta-winning comedy Twenty Twelve, and a new series is set to air in 2017.

That same year, Jason starred as Christopher Jefferies in the two-part series The Lost Honor of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the Bafta TV Award for Best Actor and dedicated it to Maude.

In 2016, Jason starred alongside James Nesbitt as Pastor Hansford in the four-part drama The Secret, and in the same year he appeared in two episodes of The Hollow Crown.

He was then cast as Malcolm Turner, Helena Bonham Carter’s neighbor on Love, Nina, and starred in an episode of Friday Night Dinner.

Jason also played Mr Humphries in the revival of Are You Being Served and in the Tom Hardy drama Taboo as Soloman Coop.

He also joined the cast of BBC police drama Line of Duty for season four.

Jason received rave reviews for his role as serial killer Ralph in the Theater Royal Haymarket production of Frozen.

The actor also starred alongside Hugh Grant in the three-part BBC drama ‘A Very English Scandal’ and ‘Hold the Sunset’, which also stars John Cleese and Alison Steadman.

Jason is also known for Netflix’s The Crown and ITV’s McDonald & Dodds.

What movies has Jason starred in?

Jason starred in the 1997 Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies as a Principal Warfare Officer.

He also starred in the second Bridget Jones film Edge of Reason and camp wedding planner Gregory Hough in Confetti.

In 2009 he was cast as Gordon Shakespeare in Nativity, a role he reprized for the second and third films.

Who does Jason Watkins play in The Catch?

Jason takes on the lead role of Ed in Channel 5’s The Catch.

His character is a former naval officer who now fishes for a living.

Ed and his wife lost their son a few years ago and he is now scared of losing their daughter after their new boyfriend Ryan arrives.

Ed is also forced to confront a harrowing incident from his past when an anonymous person starts taunting him.