| Occupation Actor Height 1.88 m Role Actor | Name Jeremy Northam Years active 1987–present Spouse Liz Moro (m. 2005–2009) | |
| Full Name Jeremy Philip Northam Born 1 December 1961 (age 54) (1961-12-01) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK Parents John Northam, Rachel Northam Siblings Christopher Northam, Tim Northam, Kate Northam Movies and TV shows An Ideal Husband, Emma, The Tudors, Gosford Park, The Net Similar People Liz Moro, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Sophie Thompson, Tom Hollander | ||
Jeremy Northam - Actor
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. He has recently played Anthony Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.
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- Jeremy Northam Actor
- Someone like you jeremy northam
- Personal life
- Screen and stage
- Other work
- Theatre
- References
Someone like you jeremy northam
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). Northam was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bedford College, University of London (BA English 1984) now part of Royal Holloway, University of London, 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.
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 plays 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. 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. In 2009, he recorded Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene for CSA Word. 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.