Metin Hüseyin was born in London in 1959. He is a director of Turkish descent. His debut film, Tight Trousers, was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Best Short Film in 1989, and in 1998 he received an RTS award and a British Academy Television Award nomination for Common as Muck and The History of a Founding; Tom Jones won three BAFTAs. In 2002 film he directed the film Anita and Me and has also directed episodes of The All New Alexei Sayle Show, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) and Kingdom, some eipsodes of BBC's drama Merlin and Shameless.