He has directed numerous dramas for British and American television including the award-winning When I'm Sixty-Four (Prix Europa - Best TV Film), The Diary of Anne Frank, Blood Strangers, The Alan Clark Diaries (Director's Guild of Great Britain Best Director), A Very Social Secretary (Broadcast Press Award - Best Film), Northanger Abbey, Zen, Mr Selfridge and Going Postal.
Most recent projects are Lawless for Sky, American Odyssey and Heroes Reborn for NBCUniversal, Legends for Fox21 and Hanna for Amazon Studios.
Jonathan Rhys Jones first worked in the film and television industry as a carpenter, building sets for advertisements and pop promos.
Upon leaving three years later, his first directing jobs were Edith's Finger, which won the BAFTA Cymru for Best Short Film, and the ITV series Cold Feet,[1] in 2000, with his three episodes receiving an average of 9 million viewers.
[3] Wales Arts Review wrote that it has "an execrable script, a confused impetus, dodgy character motivations, and a standard of cinematic conception that would get you a middling grade at a half-decent film school – it’s what #TeamWales expects.