James Norton(VIII)
- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
James Norton was born in 1985 to two teachers and has a younger sister
who is a doctor. Growing up in North Yorkshire he espoused acting at a
very early age - playing Joseph in his primary school nativity play
aged five - and, after leaving Ampleforth College he did work
experience at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. Rather than go
straight to acting school he read theology at Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge and then travelled to Nepal, where he became interested in
Buddhism. On return he enrolled at RADA in London, graduating in 2010
and, just before graduating bagging a (very) small part as Carey
Mulligan's boyfriend in the final scene of 'An Education'. In 2011 he
appeared on the London stage in revivals of 'Journey's End' and 'The
Lion in Winter' with Joanna Lumley and Robert Lindsay. At the tail end
of 2013 he was in the faux-Austen mystery 'Death Comes To Pemberley' on
television but 2014 has been the year when he became known to a wider
audience via the period films 'Mr Turner' and 'Belle' as the heroine's
first love interest and most particularly violent serial 'Happy Valley'
as a murderous kidnapper and rapist and, by contrast in the post-war
set whodunit series 'Grantchester' as a tipsy young vicar with a
penchant for solving cases.
