Justin Chadwick

Born

Justin Chadwick , Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Birthday

1968-12-06

Occupation

Actor, Director

Spouse(s)

Michelle Chadwick

Years Active

1991–present

Justin Chadwick (born 6 December 1968 in Salford, Lancashire) is an English actor and television and film director.
Chadwick began acting at the age of eleven. He joined Bolton Little Theatre and played Billy Casper in ‘Kes’. He attended Turton High School in Bolton, before graduating from the University of Leicester and in 1991 made his screen debut in London Kills Me. Additional acting credits include The Loss of Sexual Innocence and appearances in the television dramas Heartbeat, Dangerfield, Dalziel and Pascoe, and others.
Chadwick's directorial debut was the 1993 television movie Family Style starring Ewan McGregor, after which he directed and performed in Shakespeare Shorts, a series that explored the history of Shakespearean characters and presented them in key scenes from the plays in which they appeared. He directed episodes of EastEnders, Byker Grove, The Bill, Spooks, and Red Cap before directing nine of the fifteen episodes of the mini-series Bleak House, which was broadcast by the BBC in the UK and by PBS in the United States as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series.
Chadwick was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special, the Royal Television Society Award for Breakout Performance Behind the Scenes, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Bleak House, which was the Best Drama Serial winner in the British Academy Television Awards 2006. Bleak House” was also nominated for two Golden Globes, four Royal Television Society Awards, three Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, three Satellite Awards, and the Television Critics Award.
Chadwick's most recent project is The Other Boleyn Girl, shown at the February 2008 Berlin International Film Festival. He was scheduled to start production on screen adaptations of Birdsong (released 2012) and Jamaica Inn in 2008. He completed the feature film The First Grader starring Naomie Harris which was released on May 13, 2010.

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