Bethan Ellis Owen Explained

Bethan Ellis Owen should not be confused with Ellis Owen.

Bethan Ellis Owen (born October 1976 in Bangor, Gwynedd) is a Welsh actress best known for playing the character of Ffion in the long-running Welsh-language soap Pobol y Cwm.^[1] She's also starred in the play Anfamol, about a woman deciding to have a child as a single parent, and its 2023 television adaptation for S4C.

Personal life

Ellis Owen is the eldest of two daughters of Welsh writer and actor .^[2] Bethan and her sister Ruth were pupils at Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari after the family moved to South Wales when they were children.

Her former husband Gareth was an ordained minister, with whom she had two daughters: Begw Non and Efa Grug.^[3]

In 2022 she and her partner, actor Jack Quick, had a daughter, Jesi Iris, who was conceived using an egg donation.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pobol Y Cwm Characters . 4 August 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080313073634/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/pobolycwm/sites/characters/pages/ffion_roberts.shtml . 13 March 2008 . dead . dmy .
2. Web site: Wynford Ellis Owen reveals his road to addiction . 10 November 2008 .
3. Web site: Two of a kind; Alun Prichard on why actress Bethan Ellis Owen and her soap persona are. - Free Online Library . 25 June 2005.
4. Web site: Bethan Ellis Owen: 'Diolch i fy egg donor ar Sul y Mamau' . 19 March 2023. George, Nia. S4C News.