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

• Dear England — Greg Dyke
• Dirty Business — Peter Hammond
• 2026Enola Holmes 3 — Brigadier Sampson
• Falling — Peter
• Bookish — Harold Sneed
• 2025Dragonfly — John
• The Game — Huw Miller
• 2025The Phoenician Scheme — Notary
• Batman: Caped Crusader — Alfred Pennyworth (voice), Alfred Pennyworth / Guard 1 (voice), Alfred Pennyworth / Carnival Barker (voice), Alfred Pennyworth / Provost Williams (voice)
• Coma — Simon
• 2024Princes in the Tower: A Damning Discovery — Presenter
• 2024Wicked Little Letters — Mr. Treading
• Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant — Stanley Fox
• 2023Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie
• Jason and Clara: In Memory of Maudie
• The Catch — Ed
• 2023The One Note Man — One Note Man
• 2022A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus — Mr Wraxhall
• SAS Rogue Heroes — Winston Churchill
• Around the World in 80 Days — Bernard Fortescue
• 2021The Trick — Phil Jones
• Des — Brian Masters
• Hitmen — The Lawyer
• McDonald & Dodds — DS Dodds
• 2020Something Borrowed — Stanley
• A Very English Scandal — Emlyn Hooson
• Celebrity Catchphrase
• Hold the Sunset — Roger
• Inside the Tower of London — Narrator
• 2018The Children Act — Nigel Pauling
• 2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote — Rupert
• Watership Down — Captain Orchis (voice)
• Decline and Fall — Wilfred Lucas-Dockery
• 2017Hampstead — James Smythe
• Taboo — Solomon Coop
• 2017The Overcoat — Christopher Cobbler
• Love, Nina — Malcolm Tanner
• The Crown — Harold Wilson
• The Secret — Pastor Hansford
• 2016You Can't Teach a New Dog Old Tricks — Mr. Humphreys
• Safe House — Simon Duke
• Inside No. 9 — Kevin, Self
• 2014Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! — Gordon Shakespeare
• The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies — Christopher Jefferies
• W1A — Simon Harwood
• Atlantis — Crios
• Call the Midwife — Reverend Applebee-Thornton
• Dirk Gently — DI Gilks
• Line of Duty — Tim Ifield, FC Tim Ifield
• 2012Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! — Gordon Shakespeare
• Playhouse Presents — Andy
• Prisoners' Wives — Will
• The Hollow Crown — Suffolk
• Friday Night Dinner — Tony Michaels
• 2011Lost Christmas — Noel Noble
• The Body Farm — Edward Worrell
• Trollied — Gavin
• Twenty Twelve — Richard Salter
• Little Crackers — Vince
• Being Human — Herrick
• 2009May Contain: Nuts — Mr. John Worrall
• 2009Nativity! — Gordon Shakespeare
• Personal Affairs — Art Grimble
• 2009Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
• Lark Rise to Candleford
• Little Dorrit — Plornish
• 2008Miss Austen Regrets — Rev Clarke
• 2008Wild Child — Mr. Nellist
• Wired — Mart
• Lewis — Oswald Cooper
• 2007Once Upon a Time on the Westway — Desmond Marshal
• 2007The Golden Compass — Bolvangar Official
• 2007The History of Mr Polly
• 2006Confetti — Gregory
• 2006Fear of Fanny — Derek
• Hotel Babylon
• 2006Housewife, 49 — Dr Roger Brierley
• Life on Mars — Colin Merrick
• New Street Law — Brian Steele
• 2006Sixty Six — Mr. Spender
• The Virgin Queen — Christopher Hatton
• Doctor Who — Webley
• Funland — Bradley Stainer
• 2005My Family and Other Animals — Durant
• 2005The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt — Laurence
• Bodies — Ralph Harris
• 2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason — Charlie Parker-Knowles
• 2004In Denial of Murder — Stephen Downing
• Sex Traffic
• Blue Murder — Barr
• Celebrity Mastermind
• 2003She Stoops to Conquer — Diggory
• 2003State of Mind — Nathan Saunders
• The Russian Bride — Christopher Rattle
• 2000Circus — Dom
• 2000Sabotage!! — Capt. Worplesdon
• 1999Bostock's Cup — Tommy Bennett
• 1999Onegin — Guillot
• 1999Sex 'n' Death — Mick Luger
• Duck Patrol — Kevin 'Taz' Delaney
• Grown Ups — Bob
• Midsomer Murders — Joe Ferabbee
• 1997Tomorrow Never Dies — HMS Bedford Principal Warfare Officer
• Pie in the Sky — Jason Burgess
• 1992Split Second — Coroner's Assistant
• Soldier Soldier — Cpl Geoff Porter
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Joe Bland
• 1989High Hopes — Wayne
• Casualty — Partridge
• EastEnders — Gerry
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — Mr Wraxhall
• Geronto — Older
• The Joy of Sex

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2026Stonehenge: Secrets of the New Stone — Self
• Rob Beckett's Smart TV — Self
• Blankety Blank — Self - Panellist
• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• The One Show — Self