Jeremy Northam Biography

Fast Facts

• Big break came when Daniel Day-Lewis dropped out of the National Theatre's 1989 production of Hamlet; Northam was playing Osric and replaced him
• Won an Olivier award as Best Promising Newcomer in a 1989 production of The Voysey Inheritance
• Following numerous roles on British TV, made his U
• S
• film debut opposite Sandra Bullock in the cyber thriller The Net
• Better known for his English period roles, he battled giant man-eating insects with Mira Sorvino in 1997's Mimic
• Was tutored for his role as actor-composer Ivor Novello in Gosford Park by his brother Christopher, a classical pianist
• Portrayed Sir Thomas More in The Tudors throughout the first and second seasons