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Aneirin Hughes is a Actor British born on 8 may 1958 at Aberystwyth (United-kingdom)
Aneirin Hughes (born Aneurin Hughes, 8 May 1958) is a Welsh actor and singer.
Hughes was born in Aberystwyth, where he studied music at the University College of Wales under Professor Ian Parrott and sang with the soprano Hazel Holt. While a music student he conducted the university chamber choir, the Aberystwyth Elizabethan Madrigal Singers, for several years. As a student Hughes's first acting experience was gained when he appeared in performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas under conductor David Russell Hulme. Hughes also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
He began his acting career in the 1980s in the BBC Wales soap opera Pobol y Cwm. Hughes went on to appear in Blood on the Dole, Casualty, Family Affairs as DI Patrick Grenham, Spooks, Take Me with Robson Green and EastEnders in January and April 2009 as Andy Jones, the adoptive father of Danielle Jones.
Hughes won a Best Actor BAFTA Cymru (or BAFTA Wales) for his appearance as Delme in Cameleon (1997), a Welsh language film. He appeared regularly in Judge John Deed as Neil Haughton and in Young Dracula as Graham Branagh. He played Harper in the TV movie Harper and Isles with Hywel Bennett and appeared in the 1998 film The Theory of Flight. More recently, he appeared in the S4C drama Pen Talar and in Holby City as Sir Fraser Anderson, and has also returned to the BBC Wales soap opera Pobol y Cwm as a new character, Moc Thomas, whom he played in 2012-2013.
In 2013 he also appeared in the S4C film Y Syrcas (The Circus) and the bilingually-filmed detective series Y Gwyll (Hinterland), shown in Welsh on S4C in October–November 2013 and in English on BBC One Wales in January 2014. In May 2014 he appeared with Tom Jones and Katherine Jenkins in a BBC centenary production of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.
Hughes has run several marathons for charity, including the London Marathon in 2009.
Hughes lives in Monmouth with his wife and two children. He is a founding member of the Monmouth Male Voice Choir.
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Birth name Aneurin Hughes
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 8 may 1958 (65 years) at Aberystwyth (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 8 may 1958 (65 years) at Aberystwyth (United-kingdom)
Hughes was born in Aberystwyth, where he studied music at the University College of Wales under Professor Ian Parrott and sang with the soprano Hazel Holt. While a music student he conducted the university chamber choir, the Aberystwyth Elizabethan Madrigal Singers, for several years. As a student Hughes's first acting experience was gained when he appeared in performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas under conductor David Russell Hulme. Hughes also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
He began his acting career in the 1980s in the BBC Wales soap opera Pobol y Cwm. Hughes went on to appear in Blood on the Dole, Casualty, Family Affairs as DI Patrick Grenham, Spooks, Take Me with Robson Green and EastEnders in January and April 2009 as Andy Jones, the adoptive father of Danielle Jones.
Hughes won a Best Actor BAFTA Cymru (or BAFTA Wales) for his appearance as Delme in Cameleon (1997), a Welsh language film. He appeared regularly in Judge John Deed as Neil Haughton and in Young Dracula as Graham Branagh. He played Harper in the TV movie Harper and Isles with Hywel Bennett and appeared in the 1998 film The Theory of Flight. More recently, he appeared in the S4C drama Pen Talar and in Holby City as Sir Fraser Anderson, and has also returned to the BBC Wales soap opera Pobol y Cwm as a new character, Moc Thomas, whom he played in 2012-2013.
In 2013 he also appeared in the S4C film Y Syrcas (The Circus) and the bilingually-filmed detective series Y Gwyll (Hinterland), shown in Welsh on S4C in October–November 2013 and in English on BBC One Wales in January 2014. In May 2014 he appeared with Tom Jones and Katherine Jenkins in a BBC centenary production of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.
Hughes has run several marathons for charity, including the London Marathon in 2009.
Hughes lives in Monmouth with his wife and two children. He is a founding member of the Monmouth Male Voice Choir.
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Under Milk Wood (2015)
, 1h27Directed by Kevin Allen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Rhys Ifans, Charlotte Church, Di Botcher, Steffan Rhodri, Julian Lewis Jones, Nicholas McGaughey
Roles Organ Morgan
Rating60%
Just Jim (2015)
, 1h24Directed by Craig Roberts
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Emile Hirsch, Craig Roberts, Richard Harrington, Trystan Gravelle, Nia Roberts, Aneirin Hughes
Roles Dad
Rating57%
The Theory of Flight (1999)
, 1h41Directed by Paul Greengrass
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about disabilities
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Gemma Jones, Holly Aird, Ray Stevenson, Ruth Jones
Rating65%
Richard (Branagh), an unsuccessful artist who builds primitive flying machines, attempts to fly from the roof of a London office building wearing homemade wings but fails, instead crash-landing and only being saved by a rescue squad. As a result of his actions Richard is sentenced to community service, in the form of caring for Jane (Bonham-Carter), an ill-tempered, wheelchair-bound woman who suffers from Lou Gehrig's Disease and has run off her previous caretakers.