Euros Lyn – Wiki, Bio, Age, Wife, Net Worth

In 2016 Lyn directed his first feature film, the Welsh-language Y Llyfrgell (The Library Suicides) starring Ryland Teifi, Catrin Stewart, Dyfan Dwyfor and Sharon Haf Morgan.

In 2015 Lyn received the Siân Phillips Award at the BAFTA Cymru ceremony for his contributions to the industry. In the same year, he directed the three-part BBC series Capital based on John Lanchester’s novel of the same name.

Lyn was born in Cardiff. His family moved to north Wales and later back south to Swansea, he now lives in Llangennith, Gower. He was educated at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera and studied Drama at the University of Manchester. He is a Welsh speaker. In 2015 Lyn married his partner, Craig Hughes.

The crime series Happy Valley, which Lyn directed, was shown on BBC One in 2014. In 2015 the show won the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series. He also directed episodes of Gracepoint (FOX USA), Cucumber (Channel 4) and Daredevil (Netflix USA).

Lyn won the BAFTA 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 BAFTA Best Drama awards. He also directed Fifteen Million Merits, an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror for Channel 4, which won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series. In 2013 he directed three episodes of Broadchurch with David Tennant and Olivia Colman, and a further three episodes of the second instalment of BAFTA-winning series Last Tango in Halifax, after directing three episodes of the first series.

In 2008, he directed Children of Earth, the five-episode Torchwood mini-series (often called series 3 of the show).

He directed nine episodes of Doctor Who and won the BAFTA 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”. 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 BBC One. He has also directed four episodes of the long-running BBC medical drama Casualty.

Euros Lyn (/ˈ eɪ r ɒ s ˈ l ɪ n / ) (born 1971) is a Welsh television director.