Our country is a popular location for filming. From the busy city in Cardiff to mountainous Snowdonia, our landscape has provided the setting to Hollywood movies and popular television shows.

North Wales was the backdrop to scenes from the second Tomb Raider movie starring Angelina Jolie whilst Bollywood films have been shot in locations all across Wales such as Caerphilly Castle and Aberystwyth.  Bollywood star Mayur Verma has even relocated here.  The Delhi-born actor said of his move: "Everyone is so welcoming and friendly and it's a great place to raise a family." 

The longest-running science fiction television show in the world, Doctor Who, was revived by Welsh writer and producer Russell T Davies for BBC Wales and has won many awards. Filmed in south Wales, you often see stars from the show such as David Tennant around Cardiff.  Keen fans can also see Daleks and Cybermen at the Doctor Who Up Close exhibition in Cardiff Bay

Our Welsh television producers S4C International have an animation catalogue that is broadcast all over the world, and have had two Oscar nominations for Famous Fred and The Canterbury Tales.

Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas who died in New York in 1953, has been the focus of a number of films.  The Edge of Love a film about the poet's life starring Matthew Rhys, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller was filmed on location in west Wales.