Euros Lyn studied drama at Manchester University and worked as an assistant director before directing shows including Casualty and the pilot episode of Inspector George Gently. He directed several episodes of the multi-BAFTA winning rebooted Doctor Who, including the Hugo award winning The Girl In The Fireplace. He has won BAFTA Cymru Best Director three times, most recently for 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 anthology for C4 which won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series. He directed three episodes of the opening season of Broadchurch with David Tennant and Olivia Colman, two seasons of Last Tango in Halifax and the opening episodes of Happy Valley; all three shows winning BAFTA Best Drama Series. In 2015 he was the recipient of Bafta Cymru's Sian Phillips award. The Library Suicides, a Welsh language thriller for BFI/ Film Cymru Wales/S4C/BBC Films/ Soda Pictures was released in August 2016. He's currently developing a feature film to go into production in 2018.
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