Biography

Jason Savin is a British movie actor from the North East of England, known for his work in award-winning and award-nominated movies. These noteworthy movies include the features 'Flowerman' (Solarus Films-2013), 'Young Hearts Run Free' (Bede Films-2007), and 'Entwinement' (Solarus Films-2011), as well as the short films 'The Shepherd's Children' (Two Yanks and a Brit Productions-2009) and 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (Shudder Films-2009).

Savin was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. From the age of about seven or eight he lived at Killingworth, in North Tyneside, attending George Stephenson High School.

It was a long time before he realized where his ambitions lay, and so he came into acting later in life. He was 30 years old when he began his drama training at Newcastle College in 1998, going on to complete his degree in Performance Arts at the University of Sunderland, where he majored in drama and dance. After graduating in 2003, Savin studied the Meisner Technique under the Impulse Company's Scott Williams, and took Masterclasses with famous names of the British stage and screen such as Nigel Havers, Prunella Scales and Penelope Keith.

Savin found his hardest role to play, to date, was in Solarus Films' gripping award-winning drama 'Flowerman', where he played the title role of the sinister, controlling, and highly intelligent psychopath, Nigel. He said "There were times that I would get home feeling completely emotionally drained".

The sort of roles which Savin seems to excel in are the more aggressive, sometimes even deranged roles, which he played so well, such as Nigel Simmonds in 'Flowerman' and Simon in 'Entwinement', as well as the polar opposite role of the vulnerable victim which he played so convincingly in 'The Shepherd's Children' as the impoverished drug addict, Ian, and 'I Love You, Daddy' where he played the frightened, wounded soldier separated from his men.

Savin is highly influenced by actors such as Anthony Hopkins and Philip Seymour Hoffman and likes to read the script 200 times before filming begins. Solarus Films director, Rob Burrows says about Savin that he left a 'lasting impression' on him after they worked together on 'Dead Frequency' in 2010. He goes on to say that Savin has a 'truly outstanding acting talent'. The film 'Flowerman' was Savin's 23rd film, being released in the States in early 2014 and the UK later in the same year.

As well as acting, between July 2000 and August 2001, Savin taught drama skills to disadvantaged children with 'The Shoestring Theatre Company' (which is a group he helped to establish), and from 2012 he also began to coach adult actors.

Besides acting and teaching, this busy man has also made inroads as a screenwriter with the films 'Mrs YparaH's Artefact' in 2003, and 'I Love You, Daddy' in 2009, which he produced with his own group 'A Company of Dreamers' which he established so he could make his own projects in his native North East of England. He's also written some full length plays, as well as three short plays which have all been performed: 'Mother was a Tailor' in 2005, 'The Present' in 2007, and an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Happy Prince' in 2008. Savin published his first book in 2020, which immediately became a bestseller in it's category. Then in 2022 he published his 'Kings of Munster' trilogy, which had taken him eleven years to write, being a re-working of the ancient myths of Ireland. And in 2023 he completed his Masters in Creative Writing at Teesside University.
- IMDb mini biography by: Richard Blaine