Biography
Metin Hüseyin is a British television and film director of Turkish-Cypriot descent. Born in 1959 in Hackney, London, he trained at the National Film and Television School, first as an animator and later as a writer-director.
His early work includes the short film Tight Trousers (1990), nominated for a BAFTA for Best Short Film, and episodes of comedy series such as The All New Alexei Sayle Show. He directed nine episodes of Common as Muck (1994–1997), for which he received a Royal Television Society award, and five episodes of the miniseries The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997), which won three BAFTAs. Feature films include Anita and Me (2002).
Hüseyin has directed episodes of numerous series including Merlin (2009), Shameless (2010–2011), Outlander (2015–2016), Marvel's Agent Carter (2016), Krypton (2018–2019), American Gods (2021) and The Mosquito Coast (2022–2023).
