Benjamin Caron

Benjamin Caron (born 2 July 1976)^[1] is an Emmy^[2] and BAFTA-winning^[3] British film and television director.

Life and career

Born in the West Midlands, Caron was educated at Homerton College, Cambridge.^[4] Caron began his television career making factual programmes and entertainment programmes and music videos for a number of artists including Jay-Z.^[5] In 2006, he paired up with Derren Brown to direct a one-hour special for Channel 4 titled The Heist,^[6] which was nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Entertainment Programme^[7] category.

Caron moved on to direct a range of television drama which includes Scott and Bailey,^[8] 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.^[9] 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.^[10] 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.^[11]

In June 2021, Deadline Hollywood reported that Caron would be directing episodes of the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor, set to be released in 2022.^[12] Caron directed episodes 7, 11, and the season's finale.^[13]

Caron developed Sharper, an A24 and Apple TV+ feature film, with his long-time producing partner, his sister Jodie Caron.^[14]