Jeremy Northam
| Jeremy Northam | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Northam in 2010 | |
| Born |
Jeremy Philip Northam 1 December 1961 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse(s) | Liz Moro (April 2005 – div. 2009?) |
Jeremy Philip Northam (born 1 December 1961) is an English actor. He has appeared in the films Gosford Park, Emma, Amistad, The Winslow Boy, Enigma, Martin and Lewis, amongst others. He played Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors.
Personal life
Northam was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, the youngest of four siblings. His mother, Rachel (née Howard), was a potter and professor of economics, and his father, John Northam, was a professor of literature and theatre, as well as being an Ibsen specialist and lecturer (first at Clare College, Cambridge and later at Bristol).[1] Northam was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bedford College, University of London (BA English 1984) now part of Royal Holloway, University of London,[2] and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He married Canadian film/television make-up artist Liz Moro in April 2005, though they later divorced.
Career
Screen and stage
Northam performed at the Royal National Theatre – he replaced Daniel Day-Lewis in the role of Hamlet (1989) and won the Olivier Award in 1990 for "most promising newcomer" for his performance in The Voysey Inheritance.
He has appeared frequently in British films such as Carrington (1995), Emma (1996), The Winslow Boy (1999), An Ideal Husband (1999), Enigma (2001) and as Welsh actor and singer Ivor Novello in Gosford Park (2001). He made his American film debut in The Net (1995).
In 2002 he starred in the film Cypher alongside Lucy Liu. That same year, he portrayed singer Dean Martin in the CBS film Martin and Lewis and golfer Walter Hagen in Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius in 2004. In 2007 and 2008, he portrayed Thomas More on the Showtime series, The Tudors. He played John Brodie Innes in the 2009 film Creation, based on the life of Charles Darwin. He will play British Prime Minister Anthony Eden in the Netflix drama series, The Crown.
Other work
His audiobook work includes The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis for Harper Audio and A Death Divided by Clare Francis for Macmillan.[3] For SilkSoundBooks, he recorded The Real Thing and Other Short Stories and The Aspern Papers, both written by Henry James. In 2007 he recorded Gerard Manley Hopkins poems for "The Great Poets" edition for Naxos Audiobooks.He recorded the audio book Dark Matter, a ghost story by Michelle Paver, in September 2010. It was released on 21 October 2010, by Orion.
In the Gosford Park soundtrack, Northam sings the Ivor Novello songs "And Her Mother Came Too", "What a Duke Should Be", "Why Isn't It You", "I Can Give You the Starlight" and "The Land of Might Have Been" accompanied by his brother Christopher on piano.
Credits
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Journey's End | Captain Stanhope | TV film |
| American Playhouse | Mr. Benson | TV series (1 episode:Suspicion) | |
| Piece of Cake | 'Fitz' Fitzgerald | TV mini-series (5
episodes) | |
| Wish Me Luck | Colin Beale | TV series (14 episodes: 1988-1989) | |
| 1992 | House of Glass | Gerald Stafford | TV film |
| A Fatal Inversion | Rufus Fletcher | TV series (3 episodes) | |
| Wuthering Heights | Hindley Earnshaw | ||
| 1993 | Soft Top Hard Shoulder | John | |
| Agatha Christie: Poirot | Hugo Trent | TV series (1 episode: "Dead Man's Mirror") | |
| 1995 | A Village Affair | Anthony Jordan | TV film |
| Carrington | Beacus Penrose | ||
| The Net | Jack Devlin | ||
| Voices | Philip Heseltine/Peter Warlock | ||
| 1996 | Emma | Mr. Knightley | |
| 1997 | Mimic | Dr. Peter Mann | |
| Amistad | Judge Coglin | ||
| 1998 | The Tribe | Jamie | |
| The Misadventures of Margaret | Edward Nathan | ||
| 1999 | Happy, Texas | Harry Sawyer, aka Steven "Steve" | ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year (also for An Ideal Husband and The Winslow Boy) |
| Gloria | Kevin | ||
| An Ideal Husband | Sir Robert Chiltern | Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor (also for The Winslow Boy) | |
| The Winslow Boy | Sir Robert Morton | Edinburgh International Film Festival Award for Best British Performance | |
| 2000 | The Golden Bowl | Prince Amerigo | |
| 2001 | Enigma | Mr. Wigram | |
| Gosford Park | Ivor Novello | Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Ensemble Cast Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Acting Ensemble | |
| 2002 | Possession | Randolph Henry Ash | |
| Cypher | Morgan Sullivan/Jack Thursby/Sebastian Rooks | International Fantasy Film Award for Best Actor Catalonian International Film Award for Best Actor | |
| Martin and Lewis | Dean Martin | TV film | |
| 2003 | The Singing Detective | Mark Binney | |
| The Statement | Colonel Roux | ||
| 2004 | Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius | Walter Hagen | |
| 2005 | Guy X | Col. Woolwrap | |
| A Cock and Bull Story | Mark | ||
| 2007 | The Invasion | Tucker Kauffman | |
| The Tudors | Sir Thomas More | TV series (15 episodes: 2007-2008) | |
| 2008 | Fiona's Story | Simon | TV film |
| Dean Spanley | Fisk Junior | ||
| 2009 | The Payback | ||
| Creation | Reverend Innes | ||
| Glorious 39 | Joseph Balcombe | ||
| 2010 | Miami Medical | Dr. Matthew Proctor | TV series (13 episodes) |
| 2012 | White Heat | Edward | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2015 | Eye in the Sky | Brian Woodale | |
| The Man Who Knew Infinity | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 2016 | Our Kind of Traitor | Aubrey Longrigg | |
| The Crown | Anthony Eden | TV series (6 episodes) | |
Theatrography
- Edward Voysey, The Voysey Inheritance, National Theatre Company, Cottesloe Theatre, London, 1989
- Also appeared in productions of School for Scandal and The Shaughraun, National Theatre Company.
- Osric, then later title role, Hamlet, National Theatre Company, Olivier Theatre, London, 1989
- The Three Sisters, 1991
- The Way of the World, 1992
- Philip, The Gift of the Gorgon, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit (theatre), London, 1992
- Elomire, La Bête, Really Useful Theatre Company, 1993
- Berowne, Love's Labour's Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London, 1994
- Mr. Horner, The Country Wife, Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit Theatre, 1994
- Obstetrician, Certain Young Men, Almeida Theatre, London, 1999
- Old Times, Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, 2004
- Richard Greatham, Hay Fever, Noël Coward Theatre, London, 2012
References
- ↑ Jeremy Northam Biography (1961-)
- ↑ "Notable Alumni", RHC website, Royal Holloway College, University of London, retrieved 31 May 2013
- ↑ MAB 313
External links
- Jeremy Northam at the Internet Movie Database
- Jeremy Northam at the British Film Institute's Screenonline