Euros Lyn

Who is Euros Lyn?

Euros Lyn is a Welsh television director. He was born in 1971 and educated at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera and the University of Manchester.

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 2008, he directed Children of Earth, the five episode Torchwood mini-series.

In 2007, he directed the first episode 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.

He has won BAFTA Cymru Best Director three times, most recently for the first season of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman which won RTS and BAFTA best drama awards. Euros directed Fifteen Million Merits, part of the Black Mirror trilogy for C4 which won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series. He has most recently directed three episodes of Broadchurch with David Tennant and Olivia Colman and will return to direct the second installment of BAFTA winning series Last Tango in Halifax after directing three episodes of the first series.