Jason Watkins

Known for: Acting

Born: 1966-10-28 (age 59)

From: 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.

Filmography (115)

MOVIE★ 7.0
Enola Holmes 3
2026
as Brigadier Sampson
TV★ 5.8
Dear England
2026
as Greg Dyke
TV★ 2.0
Falling
2026
MOVIE
Stonehenge: Secrets of the New Stone
2026
as Self
TV★ 9.2
Dirty Business
2026
as Peter Hammond
MOVIE★ 6.4
Dragonfly
2025
as John
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Notary
TV★ 6.0
The Game
2025
as Huw Miller
MOVIE
Princes in the Tower: A Damning Discovery
2024
as Presenter
TV★ 7.2
Batman: Caped Crusader
2024
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
TV★ 5.4
Coma
2024
as Simon
TV★ 5.4
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.9
Wicked Little Letters
2024
as Mr. Treading
TV★ 6.2
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
as Stanley Fox
MOVIE★ 6.7
The One Note Man
2023
as One Note Man
MOVIE
Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie
2023
TV
Jason and Clara: In Memory of Maudie
2023
TV★ 4.8
The Catch
2023
as Ed
MOVIE★ 5.2
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
2022
as Mr Wraxhall
TV★ 7.8
SAS Rogue Heroes
2022
as Winston Churchill
TV★ 7.3
Around the World in 80 Days
2021
as Bernard Fortescue
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Trick
2021
as Phil Jones
TV★ 7.0
Blankety Blank
2021
as Self - Panellist
MOVIE★ 8.0
Something Borrowed
2020
as Stanley
TV★ 7.2
Des
2020
as Brian Masters
TV★ 5.9
Hitmen
2020
as The Lawyer
TV★ 7.6
McDonald & Dodds
2020
as DS Dodds
TV★ 6.9
Watership Down
2018
as Captain Orchis (voice)
TV★ 7.3
Inside the Tower of London
2018
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Children Act
2018
as Nigel Pauling
TV★ 10.0
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018
TV★ 7.1
A Very English Scandal
2018
as Emlyn Hooson
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2018
as Rupert
TV★ 6.4
Hold the Sunset
2018
as Roger
MOVIE
The Overcoat
2017
as Christopher Cobbler
MOVIE★ 6.1
Hampstead
2017
as James Smythe
TV★ 5.7
Decline and Fall
2017
as Wilfred Lucas-Dockery
TV★ 7.9
Taboo
2017
as Solomon Coop
TV★ 8.2
The Crown
2016
as Harold Wilson
MOVIE★ 5.3
You Can't Teach a New Dog Old Tricks
2016
as Mr. Humphreys
TV★ 5.8
Love, Nina
2016
as Malcolm Tanner
TV★ 6.3
The Secret
2016
as Pastor Hansford
TV★ 6.4
Safe House
2015
as Simon Duke
TV★ 7.3
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
2014
as Christopher Jefferies
MOVIE★ 4.5
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!
2014
as Gordon Shakespeare
TV★ 7.7
W1A
2014
as Simon Harwood
TV★ 8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
as Kevin
TV★ 6.4
Atlantis
2013
as Crios
MOVIE★ 5.5
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
2012
as Gordon Shakespeare
TV★ 7.4
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Suffolk
TV★ 8.2
Line of Duty
2012
as Tim Ifield
TV★ 6.0
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Andy
TV★ 7.0
Dirk Gently
2012
as DI Gilks
TV★ 7.2
Prisoners' Wives
2012
as Will
TV★ 7.5
Call the Midwife
2012
as Reverend Applebee-Thornton
MOVIE★ 6.8
Lost Christmas
2011
as Noel Noble
TV★ 5.6
The Body Farm
2011
as Edward Worrell
TV★ 6.5
Trollied
2011
TV★ 7.4
Twenty Twelve
2011
as Richard Salter
TV★ 7.9
Friday Night Dinner
2011
as Tony Michaels
TV★ 6.8
Little Crackers
2010
as Vince
MOVIE★ 4.0
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009
MOVIE★ 6.4
Nativity!
2009
as Gordon Shakespeare
TV★ 4.6
Personal Affairs
2009
as Art Grimble
MOVIE★ 8.0
May Contain: Nuts
2009
as Mr. John Worrall
TV★ 7.1
Being Human
2009
as Herrick
TV★ 7.8
Little Dorrit
2008
as Plornish
TV★ 6.6
Wired
2008
as Mart
MOVIE★ 6.7
Wild Child
2008
as Mr. Nellist
MOVIE★ 6.1
Miss Austen Regrets
2008
as Rev Clarke
TV★ 8.4
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Golden Compass
2007
as Bolvangar Official
TV★ 7.8
Would I Lie to You?
2007
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.7
The History of Mr Polly
2007
MOVIE
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007
as Desmond Marshal
TV★ 7.6
Lewis
2007
as Oswald Cooper
MOVIE★ 6.0
Housewife, 49
2006
as Dr Roger Brierley
MOVIE★ 6.6
Sixty Six
2006
as Mr. Spender
MOVIE★ 7.1
Fear of Fanny
2006
as Derek
TV★ 4.4
The One Show
2006
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.4
Confetti
2006
as Gregory
TV★ 6.6
New Street Law
2006
as Brian Steele
TV★ 6.5
The Virgin Queen
2006
as Christopher Hatton
TV★ 7.3
Hotel Babylon
2006
TV★ 7.8
Life on Mars
2006
as Colin Merrick
MOVIE★ 6.4
My Family and Other Animals
2005
as Durant
MOVIE★ 8.7
The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt
2005
as Laurence
TV★ 6.3
Funland
2005
as Bradley Stainer
TV★ 7.6
Doctor Who
2005
as Webley
MOVIE★ 6.2
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
as Charlie Parker-Knowles
TV★ 6.8
Sex Traffic
2004
TV★ 6.7
Bodies
2004
as Ralph Harris
MOVIE★ 6.5
In Denial of Murder
2004
as Stephen Downing
TV★ 6.0
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
TV★ 6.7
Blue Murder
2003
as Barr
MOVIE★ 7.0
She Stoops to Conquer
2003
as Diggory
MOVIE★ 5.8
State of Mind
2003
as Nathan Saunders
TV★ 9.0
The Russian Bride
2001
as Christopher Rattle
MOVIE★ 5.8
Sabotage!!
2000
as Capt. Worplesdon
MOVIE★ 5.0
Circus
2000
as Dom
MOVIE★ 6.1
Onegin
1999
as Guillot
MOVIE★ 6.5
Sex 'n' Death
1999
as Mick Luger
MOVIE★ 6.7
Bostock's Cup
1999
as Tommy Bennett
TV★ 6.0
Duck Patrol
1998
as Kevin 'Taz' Delaney
MOVIE★ 6.4
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as HMS Bedford Principal Warfare Officer
TV★ 7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Joe Ferabbee
TV★ 8.3
Pie in the Sky
1994
as Jason Burgess
MOVIE★ 5.9
Split Second
1992
as Coroner's Assistant
TV★ 6.9
Soldier Soldier
1991
as Cpl Geoff Porter
MOVIE★ 7.1
High Hopes
1989
as Wayne
TV★ 8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Joe Bland
TV★ 6.2
Casualty
1986
as Partridge
TV★ 4.2
EastEnders
1985
as Gerry
TV★ 7.4
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as Mr Wraxhall
MOVIE
Geronto
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as Older