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Jay Saighal

Acting

Biography

Jay trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2014. Theatre includes: Great British Bake Off – The Musical (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Hedda Gabler (Sherman Theatre); Romeo and Juliet; Richard III (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Guards at the Taj (Singapore Repertory Theatre); The Cardinal (Southwark Playhouse); Ross (Chichester Festival Theatre); As You Like It; Macbeth; Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre); Imperium Part 1; Imperium Part II; Othello; The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); Aladdin (Stephen Joseph Theatre). TV includes: Our House; Casualty; Vera; Ackley Bridge; The Split; Spotless.

Known For

Vera
7.4

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

Vera

2011
Casualty
6.2

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Casualty

1986
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
7.2

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

2025
Ackley Bridge
7.0

A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community

Ackley Bridge

2017
The Split
7.1

The Defoes, a family of female divorce lawyers, are forced to face their past following the return of their estranged father after a 30 year absence.

The Split

2018
Spotless
6.6

In London, the life of Jean, a troubled crime scene cleaner, is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.

Spotless

2015
Our House
6.3

Fi Lawson arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.

Our House

2022
RSC Live: Othello
10.0

Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies. But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own, men driven by prejudice and jealousy to destroy him. As they plot in the shadows, Othello realises too late that the greatest danger lies not in the hatred of others, but his own fragile and destructive pride.

RSC Live: Othello

2015
National Theatre Live: As You Like It
9.0

With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden. There, released from convention, Rosalind experiences the liberating rush of transformation. Disguising herself as a boy, she embraces a different way of living and falls spectacularly in love.

National Theatre Live: As You Like It

2016
Macbeth (NT)
4.0

Originally staged as part of the National Theatre’s Shakespeare for younger audiences programme. This archival recording was captured in 2017. Amid bloody rebellion and the deafening drums of war, Macbeth and his wife will stop at nothing to fulfil their ambition. Witchcraft, murder, treason and treachery are all at play in this murky world. A bold contemporary retelling of one of Shakespeare’s darkest plays.

Macbeth (NT)

2017
National Theatre Collection: Romeo and Juliet
N/A

A new version for younger audiences by Bijan Sheibani and Ben Power. Originally staged as part of the National Theatre’s Shakespeare for younger audiences programme. This archival recording was captured in 2017. This contemporary production sees a company of eight tell the most famous love story of all time, set against a vivid urban backdrop bursting with excitement, colour, dance and song. A swift, contemporary celebration of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Bijan Sheibani’s thrilling production brings Romeo and Juliet to life for a new generation.

National Theatre Collection: Romeo and Juliet

2017
RSC Live: The Merchant of Venice
N/A

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all - as long as they come prepared to do business and there is profit to be made. When the gold is flowing all is well - but when a contract between Bassanio and Shylock is broken, simmering racial tensions boil over. A wronged father, and despised outsider, Shylock looks to exact the ultimate price for a deal sealed in blood.

RSC Live: The Merchant of Venice

2015