Jason Watkins
Known for: Acting
Born: October 28, 1966
Place of birth: Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK
Jason Watkins is an English stage, film and television actor. He played the lead role in the two-part drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He has also played William Herrick in Being Human, Gavin Strong in Trollied, Simon Harwood in W1A and Gordon Shakespeare in the film series Nativity.
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Filmography
47 movies · 70 TV shows, newest first
6.8
Enola Holmes 3
2026
6.1
Dear England
2026
2.2
Falling
2026
NR
Stonehenge: Secrets of the New Stone
2026
9.1
Dirty Business
2026
6.4
Dragonfly
2025
6.5
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
6.0
The Game
2025
NR
Princes in the Tower: A Damning Discovery
2024
7.3
Batman: Caped Crusader
2024
5.6
Coma
2024
5.4
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024
6.9
Wicked Little Letters
2024
6.1
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
6.7
The One Note Man
2023
NR
Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie
2023
NR
Jason and Clara: In Memory of Maudie
2023
4.8
The Catch
2023
5.2
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
2022
7.8
SAS Rogue Heroes
2022
7.3
Around the World in 80 Days
2021
5.1
The Trick
2021
7.0
Blankety Blank
2021
8.0
Something Borrowed
2020
7.2
Des
2020
5.9
Hitmen
2020
7.6
McDonald & Dodds
2020
6.9
Watership Down
2018
7.3
Inside the Tower of London
2018
6.6
The Children Act
2018
10.0
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018
7.1
A Very English Scandal
2018
6.7
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2018
6.4
Hold the Sunset
2018
NR
The Overcoat
2017
6.1
Hampstead
2017
5.7
Decline and Fall
2017
7.9
Taboo
2017
8.2
The Crown
2016
5.3
You Can't Teach a New Dog Old Tricks
2016
5.5
Love, Nina
2016
6.3
The Secret
2016
6.4
Safe House
2015
7.4
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
2014
4.5
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!
2014
7.7
W1A
2014
8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
6.4
Atlantis
2013
5.5
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
2012
7.4
The Hollow Crown
2012
8.2
Line of Duty
2012
6.0
Playhouse Presents
2012
7.1
Dirk Gently
2012
7.4
Prisoners' Wives
2012
7.6
Call the Midwife
2012
6.8
Lost Christmas
2011
5.6
The Body Farm
2011
6.5
Trollied
2011
7.4
Twenty Twelve
2011
7.8
Friday Night Dinner
2011
6.8
Little Crackers
2010
4.0
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009
6.3
Nativity!
2009
4.6
Personal Affairs
2009
8.0
May Contain: Nuts
2009
7.1
Being Human
2009
7.9
Little Dorrit
2008
6.6
Wired
2008
6.7
Wild Child
2008
6.1
Miss Austen Regrets
2008
8.4
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
6.1
The Golden Compass
2007
7.8
Would I Lie to You?
2007
6.7
The History of Mr Polly
2007
NR
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007
7.6
Lewis
2007
6.0
Housewife, 49
2006
6.6
Sixty Six
2006
7.1
Fear of Fanny
2006
4.4
The One Show
2006
5.4
Confetti
2006
6.6
New Street Law
2006
6.6
The Virgin Queen
2006
7.3
Hotel Babylon
2006
7.8
Life on Mars
2006
6.4
My Family and Other Animals
2005
8.7
The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt
2005
6.3
Funland
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
2005
6.2
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
6.8
Sex Traffic
2004
6.7
Bodies
20046.5
In Denial of Murder
2004
6.0
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
6.7
Blue Murder
2003
7.0
She Stoops to Conquer
2003
5.8
State of Mind
2003
9.0
The Russian Bride
2001
5.8
Sabotage!!
2000
5.0
Circus
2000
6.1
Onegin
19996.5
Sex 'n' Death
1999
6.7
Bostock's Cup
1999
6.0
Duck Patrol
1998
6.4
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
19978.0
Grown Ups
1997
8.3
Pie in the Sky
1994
6.0
Split Second
1992
6.9
Soldier Soldier
1991
7.0
High Hopes
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
6.2
Casualty
1986
4.2
EastEnders
1985
7.4
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
NR
Geronto
—NR
The Joy of Sex
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