Euros Lyn
Born: 1971
Episodes Broadcast: 2005-2006, 2008-2010
Euros Lyn was born in Cardiff, Wales and studied drama at the University
of Manchester. He became an assistant director in the mid-Nineties on
shows like Screen Two. He then began directing Wales-based
programming, including episodes of Pam Fi Duw?, Belonging
and A Mind To Kill. Soon after the turn of the century, Lyn also
worked on Casualty and Cutting It. Lyn had been a fan of
Doctor Who during his childhood and, when BBC Wales announced in
2003 that it was the new production home of Doctor Who, he
eagerly offered his services to executive producers Russell T Davies
and Julie Gardner. His first work on the programme was 2005's The End Of The World and The Unquiet Dead, featuring
Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.
Lyn then directed the Children In
Need Special (2005), a short piece for the BBC's annual charity
appeal which introduced David Tennant's Tenth Doctor. He subsequently
made nine full Tenth Doctor episodes, along the way introducing
long-running characters Donna Noble (in 2006's The Runaway Bride) and River
Song (in 2008's Silence In The
Library / Forest Of The Dead). Lyn's last credited
Doctor Who work was Tennant's final adventure, the two-part The End Of Time. However, he
returned to oversee some additional shooting for The Beast Below, Matt Smith's
second adventure as the Eleventh Doctor, when original director Andrew
Gunn was unavailable. Lyn also directed all five episodes of the
season-long serial Children Of
Earth for spin-off series Torchwood, which aired in 2009.
Other work during the decade included All About George, Jane
Hall and Inspector George Gently.
In the 2010s, Lyn worked with Doctor Who's first three
twenty-first-century showrunners: Davies on Cucumber, Steven
Moffat on Sherlock, and Chris Chibnall on Broadchurch and
its American remake, Gracepoint. Other credits included Black
Mirror, His Dark Materials and six episodes of Last Tango
In Halifax, plus Stateside work with Daredevil and Let The
Right One In. In 2015, Lyn married Craig Hughes. His first feature
film was the 2016 Welsh-language Y Llyfrgell (ie, The Library
Suicides), for which he was also a producer; it co-starring Catrin
Stewart, who had previously appeared in Doctor Who on a recurring
basis as Jenny Flint. Lyn's career continued into the Twenties with a
second movie, Dream Horse, starring Toni Collette.
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