Actor and director Jessica Hynes (née Stevenson) was born in south London in 1972 and raised in Brighton. She has worked extensively in theatre, film and television, including in Spaced, as a co-creator and star, and in The Royle Family, Shaun of the Dead, Years and Years and W1A, for which she won a Bafta in 2015. In 2018 she wrote and directed her first feature film, The Fight. Hynes will appear in series two of the outdoor survival-based panel show Outsiders, hosted by David Mitchell, from 16 November at 10pm on Dave. She lives in Kent with her husband and three children.
