Jason Watkins and Barry Ackroyd
Schedule
Thu Jun 04 2026 at 07:00 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Brighton Palace Pier | Brighton, EN
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THURSDAY JUNE 4TH: INTERVIEWS WITH JASON WATKINS & BARRY ACKROYD (AND AUDIENCE Q&As)Doors 18:30, starts 19:30, to finish at around 22:30 (times may change slightly). At Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW. Book at www.the-space.uk
Jason Watkins is a highly renowned actor, particularly known for a wide range of television dramas. His first television appearance was in EastEnders for eleven episodes in 1987. A year later came his first film role, as Wayne in Mike Leigh’s High Hopes. On the small screen, notable roles were in ITV’s McDonald & Dodds, from 2020 to 2024, the Channel 5 thriller Coma, Around the World in 80 Days, Taboo, Des, BBC comedies W1A and Trollied, and The Crown, as prime minister Harold Wilson. Jason memorably starred in the 2021 series of Line of Duty and was in two episodes of The Hollow Crown and Inside No.9. He played the villainous Herrick in Being Human and Plornish in Little Dorritt. Other film appearances included the Nativity trilogy and Wicked Little Letters. For the lead in ITV’s The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He is a notable theatre actor, too, and received a Best Supporting Actor Olivier Award nomination in 2001 for Servant for Two Masters.
Barry Ackroyd is a leading prolific five-time BAFTA-nominated cinematographer, known for collaborating with the directors Paul Greengrass, Kathyrn Bigelow and Ken Loach. After beginning in television, he worked on the latter’s Riff-Raff, released in 1991, before more of Loach’s films, such as Land and Freedom and The Wind that Shakes the Barley. He continued working for television, including on the acclaimed dramas Hillsborough and The Lost Prince. With Paul Greengrass, Barry’s cinematography includes United 93, Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks, and Jason Bourne. And The Hurt Locker and A House of Dynamite saw him collaborating with Kathyrn Bigelow. He also worked on Netflix’s The Old Guard films, which starred Charlize Theron, and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. For more on him, visit www.barryackroyd.com
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Brighton Palace Pier, Palace Pier, NCN 2, Brighton, BN2 1, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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