Metin Hüseyin

Metin Hüseyin is a British television and film director. Hüseyin was born on February 8, 1959 in Hackney, London to a Turkish Cypriot family. His parents, Osman Hüseyin and Andaç Raif, immigrated from Cyprus to the United Kingdom in the 1950's where they married, set up a dry cleaning business and had five children. His debut film, Tight Trousers, was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Best Short Film in 1989, and in 1998 he received an RTS award and a British Academy Television Award nomination for Common as Muck, and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling won three BAFTAs. In 2002, he directed the film Anita and Me. Hüseyin has also directed episodes of various television series, including The All New Alexei Sayle Show, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Kingdom, Merlin, Shameless, Borgia, Outlander, Krypton, Another Life, and The Mosquito Coast.