Tall and slender with dark good looks and a rich, plummy voice, Jeremy Northam was already established as a... (Learn more)
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Jeremy Northam’s Milestones
| Raised in Cambridge and Bristol, England | |
| 1988 | Early TV credits, acting in a remake of "Suspicion" (aired in USA on PBS' "American Playhouse") and a British TV remake of the World War I drama "Journey's End" |
| 1989 | Understudied, than replaced, Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role of the National Theatre production of "Hamlet" |
| 1990 | Starred in the West End production of "The Voysey Inheritance"; won an Olivier Award as Outstanding Newcomer |
| 1991 | Appeared in the TV drama "A Fatal Inversion" |
| 1992 | Feature film debut, played Hindley Earnshaw in remake of "Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights" |
| 1992 | Supported Judi Dench and Michael Williams in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of "The Gift of the Gorgon" |
| 1993 | Co-starred with Alan Cumming in stage play "La Bete" |
| 1994 | Appeared in RSC productions of "Love's Labour's Lost" and "The Country Wife" |
| 1995 | American film debut as the villainous Jack Devlin opposite Sandra Bullock in "The Net" |
| 1995 | Portrayed the real-life schizophrenic composer Peter Warlock in "Voices From a Locked Room" |
| 1996 | Had leading role as the dashing Mr. Knightly opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in "Emma" |
| 1997 | Starred opposite Mira Sorvino as her scientist-husband battling genetically altered cockroaches in "Mimic" |
| 1998 | Cast as a real estate developer who falls in with a group of free spirits in the British TV-movie "The Tribe" |
| 1999 | Had title role in Oliver Parker's film version of Oscar Wilde's play "An Ideal Husband" |
| 1999 | Played a gangster in Sidney Lumet's remake of "Gloria", starring Sharon Stone |
| 1999 | Portrayed the lawyer representing the title character in David Mamet's remake of "The Winslow Boy" |
| 1999 | Returned to the London stage to play half of a gay couple in "Certain Young Men" |
| 2000 | Co-starred in the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of Henry James' novel "The Golden Bowl"; premiered at Cannes |
| 2001 | Played a government operative investigating a potential spy ring in "Enigma"; screened at Sundance |
| 2001 | Portrayed British actor-composer Ivor Novello in "Gosford Park", director Robert Altman's period mystery |
| 2002 | Cast as a 19th-century poet in "Possession", helmed by Neil LaBute |
| 2003 | Appeared in "The Statement", about a former Nazi executioner |
| 2004 | Starred opposite James Caviezel in "Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius," based on the life of olf legend Bobby Jones |
| 2005 | Had a supporting role in Michael Winterbottom's "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" |
| 2007 | Cast as Thomas More in the Showtime series, "The Tudors" |
| 2007 | Co-starred in "The Invasion," a film based on the 1956 film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" |
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