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James Norton(VIII)

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James Norton
The extraordinary and chilling story of career conman Robert Freegard who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled people into going into hiding, and the woman who fell for him, and then brought him down.
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Rogue Agent (2022)
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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.
BornJuly 18, 1985
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BornJuly 18, 1985
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  • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
    • 3 wins & 10 nominations total

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James Norton in Mr. Jones (2019)
James Norton in Mr. Jones (2019)
James Norton in Mr. Jones (2019)
James Norton in Flatliners (2017)
James Norton and Kiersey Clemons in Flatliners (2017)
Elliot Page and James Norton in Flatliners (2017)
Anna Arden and James Norton in Flatliners (2017)
Elliot Page and James Norton in Flatliners (2017)
Elliot Page and James Norton in Flatliners (2017)
David Strathairn and James Norton in McMafia (2018)
James Norton in McMafia (2018)
James Norton in McMafia (2018)

Known for

Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen in Little Women (2019)
Little Women
7.8
  • John Brooke
  • 2019
Peter Sarsgaard, James Norton, and Vanessa Kirby in Mr. Jones (2019)
Mr. Jones
6.9
  • Gareth Jones
  • 2019
Happy Valley (2014)
Happy Valley
8.5
TV Series
  • Tommy Lee Royce
McMafia (2018)
McMafia
7.6
TV Series
  • Alex Godman

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Actor

  • Untitled Bob Marley Biopic
    • In Production
    • 2024
  • Men of Divorce
    • Nick Pearce
    • Post-production
  • Heart of Darkness
    • (voice)
    • Pre-production
  • Happy Valley (2014)
    Happy Valley
    • Tommy Lee Royce
    • TV Series
    • 2014–2023
  • Olivia Williams, Anna Devlin, Eleanor Tomlinson, Laura Donnelly, Rochelle Neil, Zackary Momoh, and Ann Skelly in The Nevers (2021)
    The Nevers
    • Hugo Swan
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2022
  • Gemma Arterton and James Norton in Rogue Agent (2022)
    Rogue Agent
    • Robert Freegard
    • 2022
  • Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, and Ana Sophia Heger in Things Heard & Seen (2021)
    Things Heard & Seen
    • George Claire
    • 2021
  • Daniel Lamont and James Norton in Nowhere Special (2020)
    Nowhere Special
    • John
    • 2020
  • Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation (2020)
    Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation
    • Timothy
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Sophie Cookson in The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019)
    The Trial of Christine Keeler
    • Stephen Ward
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2020
  • Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen in Little Women (2019)
    Little Women
    • John Brooke
    • 2019
  • Peter Sarsgaard, James Norton, and Vanessa Kirby in Mr. Jones (2019)
    Mr. Jones
    • Gareth Jones
    • 2019
  • Grantchester (2014)
    Grantchester
    • Sidney Chambers
    • TV Series
    • 2014–2019
  • Hero (2018)
    Hero
    • Young Charles
    • Short
    • 2018
  • McMafia (2018)
    McMafia
    • Alex Godman
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Elliot Page in Flatliners (2017)
    Flatliners
    • Jamie
    • 2017
  • Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson in Hampstead (2017)
    Hampstead
    • Philip
    • 2017
  • Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy, and Chloe Pirrie in Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2016)
    Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters
    • Duke of Wellington
    • TV Movie
    • 2016

Producer

  • Gemma Arterton and James Norton in Rogue Agent (2022)
    Rogue Agent
    • producer
    • 2022

Soundtrack

  • Peter Sarsgaard, James Norton, and Vanessa Kirby in Mr. Jones (2019)
    Mr. Jones
    • performer: "The Song of Volga Boatman"
    • 2019
  • Grantchester (2014)
    Grantchester
    • performer: "Onward Christian Soldiers" (uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 2016

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Personal details

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  • Height
    • 6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
  • Born
    • July 18, 1985
    • London, England, UK
  • Parents
      Lavinia J Norton
  • Relatives
    • Jessica Norton(Sibling)
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    • 2 Articles
    • 4 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Has often brought his retired father, to appear as an extra on shoots.
  • Quotes
    If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.

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