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Name  John Light
Role  Actor

Parents  John Light Senior
Siblings  Liz Light
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Born  30 September 1973 (age 42) (1973-09-30) Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Spouse  Neve Campbell (m. 2007–2011)
Nominations  Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Movies and TV shows  Dresden, The Lion in Winter, Investigating Sex, The Prophecy: Uprising, North & South
Similar People  Neve Campbell, Jeff Colt, JJ Feild, Dominic Dromgoole, Roland Suso Richter

John light at the mars premiere behind the velvet rope with arthur kade


John Light (born 30 September 1973) is an English actor.

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Career

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Light appeared as Henry Lennox (with Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe) in the BBC production North and South from the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. He played the title character (the son of Rudyard Kipling) in My Son John.

He portrayed British pilot Robert Newman in the German film Dresden, in which he spoke German and played Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany in the 2003 film The Lion in Winter alongside Patrick Stewart, Glenn Close and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. He played a fallen angel in two films released in 2005 which were titled The Prophecy: Uprising and The Prophecy: Forsaken. He also appeared in the title role of the 2009 play A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine.

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In 2011, he appeared in an episode of BBC TV series Silk as Alan Bradley, a man accused of rape.

In 2013, he appeared as Chief Inspector Roger Nelson in the BBC TV series WPC 56 (series 1), and he appeared as Hercule Flambeau, nemesis of Father Brown, in the BBC TV series Father Brown episode 1.10 The Blue Cross. He reprised the role in the 2014 episode 2.5 The Mysteries of the Rosary, the 2015 episode 3.10 The Judgment of Man, the 2016 episode 4.5 The Daughter of Autolycus, and the 2017 episode 5.15, "The Penitent Man".

Has appeared as Professor Felix Garwood in Lewis (2014 series 8 episodes 3 and 4 (The Lions of Nemea)) and in the prequel Endeavour.

In 2016, he appeared as Dacourt in the ITV series Maigret episode 1.2 "Maigret's Dead Man".

Light is a prolific stage actor. His theatre performances include the Complete Works Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he starred in Sean Holmes' Julius Caesar as Brutus and in Rupert Goold's The Tempest as Caliban. In 2012, he appeared as the titular character in Thom Pain (based on nothing), a role for which critics praised him.

In 2015, Light starred in the play Taken at Midnight with Penelope Wilton. He received a nomination for an Olivier for Best Supporting Actor in a Play. Soon after he starred as Escamillo in Carmen Disrupted with Sharon Stone.

In late 2016 through early 2017, he was in a limited run of Mary Stuart along with Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams at the Almeida. He is cited to be joining the cast as it transfers to the West End's Duke of York's Theatre in 2018.

Personal life

In 2005, Light began dating Canadian film and television actress Neve Campbell. The couple became engaged in December 2005, and married on 5 May 2007 in Malibu, California. Campbell filed for divorce from Light on 30 June 2010 in Los Angeles.

References

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