James Jonathon Wilby (born
20 February 1958) is a
British actor
for
film,
TV and
stage.
Biography
He was
born in Rangoon
, Burma
to a
corporate executive father. He was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria
, and from
there went on to study for a degree at Grey
College
, University of Durham
.
He is married to Shana Louise and has four children: Barnaby John
Loxley, Florence Hannah Mary, Nathaniel Jerome and Jesse
Jack.
A
well-known actor on the stage and screen in the United Kingdom
, Wilby's first appearance on screen was in the
Oxford Film Company 1982 production Privileged alongside Hugh Grant . Wilby is best known to an
international audience for roles in
Maurice (
1987), for
which he received
Venice Film
Festival's Best Actor award with co-star
Hugh Grant. Then he starred in
A Handful of Dust (
1988),
Howards
End (
1992) and
Gosford Park (
2001)
and
Alain Robbe-Grillet's
C'est Gradiva qui
vous appelle (
2006) co-starring
Arielle Dombasle which premiered at
the
Venice Film Festival.
On stage,
he starred in the 1995 revival of John
Osborne's A Patriot for
Me by the Royal
Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre
.
Films and TV
References
- James Wilby Biography (1958-)
- A Patriot for Me by John Osborne, Barbican Theatre,
1995
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