Aneirin Hughes

Who is Aneirin Hughes?

Aneirin Hughes is a Welsh actor and singer.

Hughes studied music at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth under Professor Ian Parrott and singing with the soprano Hazel Holt. While a music student he conducted the university chamber choir, the Aberystwyth Elizabethan Madrigal Singers, for several years. As a student Hughes's first acting experience was gained when he appeared in performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas under conductor David Russell Hulme. Hughes also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

He began his acting career in the 1980s in the BBC Wales soap opera Pobol y Cwm. Hughes went on to appear in Blood on the Dole, Casualty, Family Affairs as DI Patrick Grenham, Spooks, Take Me with Robson Green and EastEnders in January and April 2009 as Andy Jones, the adoptive father of Danielle Jones.

Hughes won a Best Actor BAFTA Cymru for his appearance as Delme in Cameleon, a Welsh language film. He appeared regularly in Judge John Deed as Neil Haughton and in Young Dracula as Graham Branagh. He played Harper in the TV movie Harper and Isles with Hywel Bennett and appeared in the 1998 film The Theory of Flight.