Jason Watkins and his wife, Clara Francis have two children. On New year’s day 2011, their 2-year-old daughter Maude died of sepsis. He dedicated his 2015 BAFTA award to her campaigns for greater awareness of sepsis.
Jason is a Patron of Child Bereavement UK, a charity that supports children, young people and families when a child grieves or when a child dies.
He and his wife have two other children, Bessie and Gilbert. He also has two sons, Freddie and Pip, from his first marriage to actress Caroline Harding.
Watkins’s more prominent television roles have included the vampire leader, William Herrick in Being Human; the crime suspects Jason Builegh in Conviction and many others.
In 2022, Watkins appeared as Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the series: SAS: Rogue Heroes. In 2023, he starred as Ed Collier in the Channel 5 series The Catch, alongside Aneurin Bernard and Poppy Gilbert.
