Jason Savin

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 'Young Hearts Run Free' (Bede Films-2007) and 'Entwinement' (Solarus Films-2011) and 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 in 1967. From the age of seven he lived at Killingworth, in North Tyneside and attended George Stephenson High School.It was a long time before he realized where his ambitions lay; and so he came into acting very late in life. He was 30 years old when he began his drama training at Newcastle College in 1998, and he went on to complete his degree in Performance Arts at the University of Sunderland, where he majored in drama and dance. Since graduating in 2003, Savin has studied the Meisner Technique under the Impulse Company's Scott Williams and has taken 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, up until 2013, was in Solarus Films gripping drama 'Flowerman', where he played the title role of a sinister, controlling, and highly intelligent psychopath. 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 insane roles, which he has played in 'Entwinement' and 'Flowerman' and the polar opposite role of the vulnerable victim which he played so convincingly in 'The Shepherd's Children' as the impoverished drug addict, 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' is Savin's 23rd film, and is 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 also taught drama skills to children with 'The Shoestring Theatre Company' (which is a group that he helped to establish), and from 2012 he 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 that he could make his own projects in his native North East of England. He has also written 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. During his spare moments, from 2011 he was writing a book about the kings of Munster, which he hopes to finish in 2014. Show less «