Garth Jennings

Garth Jennings is an English director, screenwriter and actor, born in Essex and raised around Epping. In 1993 he co-founded the production company Hammer & Tongs with Dominic Leung and Nick Goldsmith, which concentrated on writing and directing music videos; his video for Radiohead's Lotus Flower brought him a nomination at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. He directed the feature films The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), based on the franchise created by Douglas Adams, and Son of Rambow (2007), a coming-of-age story about two schoolboys making an amateur film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. For Universal Pictures and Illumination he wrote and directed the animated comedy Sing (2016), in which he also voiced the iguana Miss Crawly, and its sequel Sing 2 (2021). He also made the short film Madame (2019).