Benjamin Caron


Benjamin Caron is a BAFTA-nominated English television director.

Background

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 , was filmed in 2013.
Caron directed the final, feature-length episodes of the Wallander, 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.