Directing
Gareth Evans
Biography
Gareth Huw Evans (born April 6, 1980) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter, editor, and action choreographer. He is best known for the Indonesian action crime films Merantau (2009), The Raid (2011), and The Raid 2 (2014), and for bringing the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat into world cinema through these films. He is also known for co-creating, co-writing, co-directing, and executive producing the Sky Atlantic/AMC action crime drama television series Gangs of London(2020–present) alongside Matt Flannery, based on the 2006 video game of the same name. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gareth Evans (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as
Gareth Huw Evans
Photos
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Roles across career
Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).
3
Acting credits
11
Directing
10
Writing
14
Other crew
Most critically rated
Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)
- 1
★ 7.8Gangs of London
2020 · tv · Director
- 2
★ 7.6The Raid 2
2014 · movie · Director
- 3
★ 7.4The Raid
2012 · movie · Editor
- 4
★ 6.5Merantau
2009 · movie · as Porn Den Videographer
- 5
★ 6.4Havoc
2025 · movie · Director
- 6
★ 6.3Killers
2014 · movie · Executive Producer
- 7
★ 6.2V/H/S/2
2013 · movie · Writer
- 8
★ 6.1Apostle
2018 · movie · Director
Most commercially successful
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
Career timeline
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
