Benjamin Caron (born 2 July 1976)[1] is a Golden Globe,[2] Emmy[3] and BAFTA-winning[4] British film and television director.
Born in the West Midlands, Caron was educated at Homerton College, Cambridge.[5] Caron began his television career making factual programmes and entertainment programmes and music videos for a number of artists including Jay-Z.[6] In 2006, he paired up with Derren Brown to direct a one-hour special for Channel 4 titled The Heist,[7] which was nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Entertainment Programme[8] category.
Caron moved on to direct a range of television drama which includes Scott and Bailey,[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[12]
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.[13] Caron directed episodes 7, 11, and the season's finale.[14]
Caron developed Sharper, an A24 and Apple TV+ feature film, with his long-time producing partner, his sister Jodie Caron.[15]
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