| Siôn Daniel Young | |
| Birth Place: | Cardiff, Wales |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Education: | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
| Years Active: | 2010- |
| Television: | Lost Boys and Fairies |
Siôn Daniel Young is a Welsh stage, television and film actor.
Born in Cardiff, Young began performing at a Welsh language festival in Cardiff called Eisteddfod in which he described "schools actively encourage their pupils to perform, be it music, singing or acting".[1] He trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.[2]
His first professional role was appearing in Daf James play Llwyth (Tribe), which was the first play about gay characters written by a queer person on a Welsh-language stage. He played the role of Albert Narracott in War Horse at the Royal National Theatre, London in 2013.[2] [1]
In 2015, he had the lead role of Christopher Boone in the stage play adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Gielgud Theatre in London.[3]
In 2018, he appeared in the World Premiere production of Barney Norris’s play Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre, London, alongside Claire Skinner and Ophelia Lovibond.[4] [5]
He appeared in the 2012 war film Private Peaceful.[1] In 2014, he appeared in World War One-centenary series Our World War alongside Theo Barklem-Biggs.[6] [7]
He had the lead role in 2019 television film drama The Left Behind.[8] For the role he was nominate for Best Actor at the 2020 BAFTA Cymru awards.[9] The film won BAFTA and Royal Television Society awards for Best Single Drama.[10] [11]
In 2020, he appeared as Gareth in the third series of S4C drama Keeping Faith. He also had a role in Aberystwyth-set crime noir Hinterland. In 2021, he could be seen in Channel 4 miniseries Deceit playing real-life character Colin Stagg, a man wrongly accused of murder in 1992, described as one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.[2] [12]
In series three of Apple TV+ espionage thriller Slow Horses, he played Douglas, an MI5 records keeper. He also appeared in Channel 5 crime thriller Witness Number 3.[13]
In 2024, he had a lead role in BBC One drama Lost Boys and Fairies. Written by Daf James, it was BBC One’s first primetime gay adoption drama.[2] That year, he was cast in Cardiff-set BBC One series The Guest.[14] [15]
He is a first-language Welsh speaker.[16] [2] He was a long-time flatmate of fellow actor Jack Lowden.[17]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Private Peaceful | Pete Bovey | ||
| 2014 | Our World War | Slapper Neary | ||
| 2019 | The Left Behind | Gethin | Television film | |
| 2019 | Doc Martin | George | 1 episode | |
| 2020-2021 | Keeping Faith | Gareth | 5 episodes | |
| 2021 | Deceit | Colin Stagg | 4 episodes | |
| 2022 | Life and Death in the Warehouse | Sean | Television film | |
| 2022 | Witness Number 3 | Ivan Barkas | 4 episodes | |
| 2023 | Slow Horses | Douglas | 3 episodes | |
| 2024 | Lost Boys and Fairies | Gabriel | 3 episodes | |
| TBA | The Guest |