Simon Cellan Jones
Birthdate: Jan 1, 1963
Simon Cellan Jones is a veteran British director, renowned for his quality work in television since 1989 but also for a handful of theatrical features, starting with playwright Joe Penhall’s screen version of his play, Some Voices (2000), starring the acclaimed duo of Daniel Craig (winner of the British Independent Film Award for best actor) and Kelly Macdonald, with David Morrissey.
Cellan Jones’s second feature was the Newcastle-set rom-com, The One and Only (2002), co-starring Justine Waddell and Richard Roxburgh, and adapted by screenwriter Peter Flannery from Susanne Bier’s hit Danish movie, Den Eneste Ene/The One and Only (1999).
Cellan Jones took a two-decade break from theatrical movies and returned to the big screen with the Lionsgate-released adventure movie, Arthur the King (2024), starring Mark Wahlberg (with whom Cellan Jones first collaborated on the streaming Apple TV+ film, The Family Plan (2023)), with Nathalie Emmanuel, Simu Liu, Bear Grylls, and Paul Guilfoyle, and based on Mikael Lindnord’s 2016 adventure memoir, Arthur—The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home.
Personal Details
Simon Cellan Jones was born and raised in the United Kingdom by James Cellan Jones (director and producer) and Margot Eavis (TV producer and production manager). Jones has one older half-brother, Rory Cellan-Jones, a former BBC News journalist. Jones was married in 1986 and later divorced Sarah Jane O’Brien (producer and production manager); the couple has two children. Jones married Elizabeth Starling Gifford in 2003.
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- 2024 | Arthur the King
Arthur the King
An adventure racer adopts a stray dog named Arthur to join him in an epic endurance race.
Some Facts About Simon Cellan Jones
Mother, Wife: Simon Cellan Jones’ mother and first wife shared a common profession: TV producer and production manager.
