Charles Martin was born and raised in London. His debut drama The Giblet Boys for ITV won a BAFTA. Charles then directed the RTS Award winning My Life As A Poppat.In 2007 he won the BAFTA for Best Breakthrough Talent and went on to direct numerous episodes of the BAFTA winning and RTS nominated E4 show Skins written by Bryan Elsley starring Nicholas Hoult, Jack O'Connell and Kaya Scodelario.Charles directed Sir Kenneth Branagh in BAFTA winning Wallander for the BBC and then moved on to be nominated for an RTS Award for Channel 4 drama RUN. Charles then re-teamed with Kaya Scodelario to direct a specially commissioned 2 x 60min Skins Redux for Channel 4 before embarking on the ambitious New Worlds - a four part period piece starring Jamie Dornan. Charles has since directed episodes of the US version of The Returned in North America before heading to Scotland to direct an adaptation of the Iain Banks novel Stonemouth