Jason Croot
Jason Croot (born 4 March 1971) is an English actor and director.[2][3]
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Career
Early life
He was born in Bradford.When he was at school he played in christmas plays at school.10 years after he appeared on the British TV dating show Blind date, and that is when his love for acting started.[4]
Start of professional acting career and onwards
Croot's acting career started in 2000 when he completed an NCFE in Performing Arts in his native City of Bradford, He moved to London in 2002 to continue his training at The Poor School. He also completed a Drama Diploma at Birkbeck, University of London.
2006 saw Croot begin to work in the independent film scene and since then he has acted in 35 feature films. In 2009 he starred in Freight (2010) as Losef, a Romanian criminal, playing alongside Andrew Tiernan.
Croot has also acted alongside Tamzin Outhwaite as a Bulgarian assassin, Ivano Popov, in series 2 of The Fixer, a drama for ITV.
He made his directorial debut in 2010 with Le Fear, a comedy featuring Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty.
Le Fear II: Le Sequel starring Andrew Tiernan and Aiko Horiuchi is currently in post production and due to be released in 2016.[5]
Croot has also directed several other productions including Demons & Doors, a thriller in which the lead female character is played by 40 different actresses.
2011 saw Croot appear as The Good Shepherd in the digital media production Nativity directed by Bafta winning Martha Fiennes.
He appeared in the 2012 UK feature film Life Just Is.
References
- "About Jay Croot". YouTube.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - "Interview with Actor Jason Croot « The Eerie Digest". www.eeriedigest.com.
- "Community Spotlight: Jason Croot, Actor & Filmmaker". Studentfilmmakers.
- Croot, Jason (11 May 2016), Le Fear II: Le Sequel, retrieved 28 April 2016
External links
- (Personal website http://www.jasoncroot.com)
- Jason Croot at IMDb
- 2017 interview with Frost magazine
- An Interview With Director Jason Croot with NTG