JR Villar is an EMMY Winning scriptwriter, born in Lisbon, in 1969 and raised in Cascais, his family's town in Portugal.

Cascais is a magic, mythic place. The town of refuge for the kings during World War II. The Spanish, Italian, French, Bulgarian and Romanian royal families and many artists like Zsa Zsa Gabor took shelter in the glamorous hotels near the beach in Estoril and Cascais.

Ian Fleming started the adventures of James Bond at the Hotel Palacio in Estoril, due to his own experiences when he also lived in the hotel.

Living in this aura just next door to his school, from an early age JR Villar showed an above the average creativity in many different subjects, especially in music, acting, illustration, and storytelling.

In 1988 directed his first short animated cartoon, "La vie en Gris", for the event "Animathon International" by the hand of the Academy Nominee André Leduc and the National Film Board of Canada. For this short animation film (16mm) JR Villar won is first world praise, an "honor special". This was the first step in the Film and Television career. His first participation in a major TV show was as a videographer for "Os Trapalhões em Portugal" (TV SIC, Portugal, 1994–1997). Os Trapalhões were the most famous comedy group from Brasil, equivalent in the UK to "The Two Ronnies" or "Morecambe and Wise".

In 2011 JR Villar moved to the United Kingdom and lives in York.

JR Villar works as a professional scriptwriter and has more than 250 episodes broadcast in Portugal, Italy, France, South Korea and Russia after being invited by major TV producer in Portugal before finishing his studies. In 2009 and 2010, he also attended different seminars of scriptwriting by Robert McKee: “Story” and “Genre”. In 2015 become a finalist for the Script Yorkshire Script Factor and is currently followed by executives from BBC and ITV.

In the UK, JR Villar attended and participated in many different seminars and masterclasses with writers and producers from BBC, ITV and Channel 4:

Kristian Smith (BBC Comedy Commissioner) , Elaine Cameron (Producer, The guilty), Phil Mealey (Actor and Writer –The Royle Family), Claire McCarthy (producer – Class Dismissed), Andy Potter (Writer – Class Dismissed), Elliot Kerrigan (Writer – Boy meets girl), Rebecca Root (Actor – Boy meets girl), Paul Walker (Director – Boy meets girl), Sophie Clarke-Jervoise ( Executive Producer – Boy meets girl), Anne Edyvean ( Head BBC Writersroom), Kate Rowland (BBC Creative Director), Tony Jordan (Life on Mars), Barbara Machin (Waking the Dead), Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless), Bryan Elsley (Skins), Sophie Gardiner (Channel 4 Drama Commissioning Editor), Levi David Addai (My Murder), Hilary Salmon (BBC Executive Producer, Drama), Chris Aird (Head of Drama, BBC Scotland), Jane Featherstone (Chief Executive Kudos), Pete Bowker (Monroe), Toby Whithouse (Doctor Who), Charlie Higson and Anthony Horowitz.

In 2012 was invited to be part of a pitching panel for creative writing students at the Brighton University with Jamie Mathieson ('Being Human'; 'Dirk Gently') and Huw Penalt-Jones, Chief Executive of De Lane Lea Production Company ('Sherlock Holmes'; 'Harry Potter'; 'X-Men'; 'Sweeny Todd'; 'Wallace and Gromit'; 'Tipping the Velvet'; 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' ).

1. Scriptwriter

   Independent · May 2004 - Present

2. Director, Actor

   Independent · Dec 1988 - Present

3. Scriptwriter

   SP Televisao · Jul 2009 - Jan 2011

4. Executive Producer

   Logomedia · Jul 1999 - May 2003

1. Coronavirus basic awareness on production training

   ScreenSkills Test · Mar 2021

   ScreenSkills Funded

2. Coronavirus basic awareness on production training

   ScreenSkills Test · Aug 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

3. Workshop: How to develop and pitch a show with Emma Morgan and Anna Abenson

   ScreenSkills · Jul 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

4. Professional Film - Explore Filmmaking

   NFTS - National Film and Television School · Mar 2015 - Apr 2015

5. Professional Professional Training, BBC Safeguarding Trust, Completed

   BBC Academy · Apr 2014 - Apr 2014

6. Professional Scriptwriting - Genre

   Robert McKee · Jul 2010 - Jul 2010

7. Master (Incompleted) Post-Graduate degree (Completed) Media, New Media and Broadcast

   ESCS Media University - LIsbon · Oct 2008 - Feb 2010

8. Professional Scriptwriting - Story

   Robert McKee · Dec 2008 - Dec 2008

9. Professional AVID Media Composer

   Restart - Media Institute Lisbon · Aug 2008 - Aug 2008

10. Professional Webdesign - Flash Animation

    Cenjor - Journalism Institute Lisbon · May 2006 - Jul 2006

11. Summer School Musical Theatre

    Guildhall School of Music and Drama · Jul 2006 - Aug 2006

12. Professional Theatre and Drama

    TZM - UM - Lisbon / Stella Addler Conservatory NY · Oct 2000 - Jul 2002

13. Post--graduation degree Cinema, television and advertising movies

    UM University - I@T · Oct 1999 - Jul 2001

14. BA Design Degree Graphic and Visual Design

    IADE - Creative University Lisbon · Oct 1991 - Jul 1995