{{Short description|Welsh actor}} {{Infobox person | name = Huw Garmon | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1966 | birth_place = Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales | death_date = | death_place = | othername = | occupation = Actor<br>Lecturer | years_active = | spouse = Wife | children = 3 | website = }}
'''Huw Garmon''' (born 1966<ref name="WO teaching role">{{cite news |title=Teaching role for Hedd Wyn star Garmon |author=Gareth Evans |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/01/07/teaching-role-for-hedd-wyn-star-garmon-91466-25542630/ |newspaper=Wales Online |date=7 January 2010 |accessdate=19 June 2016}}</ref>) is a Welsh actor, probably best known for playing the eponymous lead in the Oscar-nominated Welsh language film ''Hedd Wyn'' (1992).<ref name="WO teaching role" /> He has also taken part in various television series and has currently taken an academic post at Glyndŵr University, combining it with his acting roles.
Born in Llangefni in Anglesey, Garmon is the youngest of four sons of the Welsh historian and novelist Richard Cyril Hughes.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307651/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |title=Huw Garmon - Biography |author= |publisher=IMDb |accessdate=19 June 2016}}</ref> He obtained a degree in drama studies from Aberystwyth University. Although he is best known for Welsh language roles, he has also appeared on English language television, notably in ''Cadfael'' with Derek Jacobi, as well as having parts in a number of films. These included Hedd Wyn (1992), in which Garmon starred and which was the first Welsh film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Other films included ''Bride of War'' (1998) and ''Killer Elite'' (2011).
He was a regular in the S4C soap opera ''Pobol y Cwm'' between 1997 and 2004, in the role of Steffan Humphries,<ref>{{cite news |title=We get the S4C we deserve |author=Ron Jones |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2010/apr/15/we-get-s4c-we-deserve |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 April 2010 |accessdate=19 June 2016}}</ref> and has been a script writer for the series. He has also appeared in ''Coronation Street'', and in 2016 joined the cast of the S4C soap opera ''Rownd a Rownd''.<ref name=Rownd>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/tv/huw-garmon-joins-rownd-rownd-11192464 |title=Huw Garmon joins the Rownd a Rownd cast |author=Daniel Bissett |date=16 April 2016 |work=Daily Post |accessdate=19 June 2016}}</ref> In 2010 he joined the academic staff of Glyndŵr University where he lectures on theatre and television performance, stating that "After 20 years of acting, directing, screenwriting, writing stories and working abroad as an actor, I wanted a change".<ref>{{cite news |title=Rôl newydd i Huw Garmon fel darlithydd|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/hi/newsid_8420000/newsid_8428800/8428808.stm |newspaper=BBC Cymru |date=24 December 2009 |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref> He intends to continue in this career part-time while returning to television work.<ref name=Rownd/>
Garmon is married with three children.<ref name=Rownd/>
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