“Matthew Rhys, Michael Sheen, Anthony Hopkins – I am the only one I’ve never heard of!” Celyn fought off the stiffest of competition to win ‘Best Actor’ Award at the Welsh BAFTAs on Sunday night.
The award was given for Celyn’s performance as murderer Levi Belfield in ITV’s Manhunt.
Celyn is also a writer and producer and his first feature, Set Fire to the Stars about Dylan Thomas, was nominated for 5 BAFTA Cymrus in 2015.
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Seamus trained in his hometown, Dublin at the Conservatory of Music and Drama. After graduating he toured nationally with some of Ireland’s premier children’s theatre companies, as well as developing and performing clown performances for Barrabbas, and magic shows for Cahoots N.I.
Since moving to the UK Seamus has appeared in The Tempest, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth and Robin Hood (Creation Theatre Company), Quest (Folklore Presents) The Disappearance (The Sticking Place),and Where’s My Desi Soulmate? (Rifco Arts). Tv work includes Bear Behaving Badly (Thames Valley). Seamus is also a skilled improviser, training with Ken Campbell’s School of Night and core cast in the annual London 50 hour Improvathons and performs with “Austentatious, The improvised Jane Austen Novel”.
Seamus was the director of the Young Company at the Watermill theatre in Newbury. He established Readings only Improvisation comedy club, “What’s the Game?! Improv”, hosting shows as well as coaching professional performers. Seamus was Head of acting at Read college, a course which he wrote and which became one of the most successful Foundation courses for getting students into the top acting degree programmes in the UK. Most recently he has been Head of Year at Drama Studio London and gained an MSc in Performance Psychology focusing on excellence in actor training.
Seamus is Head of Foundation and teaches on the Foundation Courses
