Justin Chadwick

Justin Chadwick (born 6 December 1968) is an English actor and television and film director.

Life and career

Chadwick was born in Salford, Lancashire. He began acting at the age of eleven.

He joined Bolton Little Theatre and played Billy Casper in ‘Kes’. He attended Turton High School in Bolton, before graduating from Leicester Polytechnic and in 1991 made his screen debut in London Kills Me. Other acting credits include The Loss of Sexual Innocence and appearances in the television dramas Heartbeat, Dangerfield, Dalziel and Pascoe, and others.

Chadwick's directorial debut was the 1993 television movie Family Style starring Ewan McGregor, after which he directed and performed in Shakespeare Shorts, a series that explored the history of Shakespearean characters and presented them in key scenes from the plays in which they appeared. He directed episodes of EastEnders,Byker Grove, The Bill, Spooks, and Red Cap before directing nine of the fifteen episodes of the mini-series Bleak House, which was broadcast by the BBC in the UK and by PBS in the United States as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series.