Benjamin Caron (born 2 July 1976) ) is a BAFTA-nominated English
television director.Born in the West Midlands, Caron began his
television career making factual programmes and entertainment
programmes and music videos for a number of artists including Jay-Z.
In 2006, he paired up with Derren Brown to direct a one-hour special
for Channel 4, titled The Heist, which was nominated for a BAFTA in
the Best Entertainment Programme category.Caron moved on to direct a
range of television drama which includes Scott and Bailey, Skins and
My Mad Fat Diary. His first single film, a biopic for ITV1 and
Leftbank Pictures, titled Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, was
filmed in 2013. Caron directed the final, feature-length episodes of
the Wallander (2016), the multi BAFTA and Emmy-winning and Golden
Globe-nominated series starring Kenneth Branagh.In 2015 Caron
re-teamed with Kenneth Branagh in directing the cinematic broadcast of
the actor and director's theatre production of The Winter's Tale,
broadcast live to more than 1,500 screens worldwide. In 2016 he
directed two episodes of the Netflix series The Crown, written by
Peter Morgan and starring Claire Foy, Matt Smith and John Lithgow. In
2017, he directed "The Final Problem", the last episode of the fourth
series of Sherlock. He will bring Branagh's Romeo and Juliet to the
cinema screens.
television director.Born in the West Midlands, Caron began his
television career making factual programmes and entertainment
programmes and music videos for a number of artists including Jay-Z.
In 2006, he paired up with Derren Brown to direct a one-hour special
for Channel 4, titled The Heist, which was nominated for a BAFTA in
the Best Entertainment Programme category.Caron moved on to direct a
range of television drama which includes Scott and Bailey, Skins and
My Mad Fat Diary. His first single film, a biopic for ITV1 and
Leftbank Pictures, titled Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, was
filmed in 2013. Caron directed the final, feature-length episodes of
the Wallander (2016), the multi BAFTA and Emmy-winning and Golden
Globe-nominated series starring Kenneth Branagh.In 2015 Caron
re-teamed with Kenneth Branagh in directing the cinematic broadcast of
the actor and director's theatre production of The Winter's Tale,
broadcast live to more than 1,500 screens worldwide. In 2016 he
directed two episodes of the Netflix series The Crown, written by
Peter Morgan and starring Claire Foy, Matt Smith and John Lithgow. In
2017, he directed "The Final Problem", the last episode of the fourth
series of Sherlock. He will bring Branagh's Romeo and Juliet to the
cinema screens.
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