James Wilby

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James Jonathon Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is an English actor.

Early life and education

Wilby was born in Rangoon, Burma, to a company executive father. He studied at Terrington Hall School, North Yorkshire, and Sedbergh School in Cumbria (prior to 1974 in West Riding of Yorkshire) and then on to study for a degree in Mathematics at Grey College, University of Durham, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Personal life

He is married to Shana Louise and has four children.

Wilby owned The Laines, an 18th-century country house in Plumpton, East Sussex, near Lewes, Queen Consort's childhood home.

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Career

Wilby's first appearance on film was in the Oxford Film Company's 1982 film Privileged alongside Hugh Grant. He is known to an international audience for his appearances in Maurice (1987), for which he received the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award with co-star Hugh Grant. He appeared in A Handful of Dust (1988), for which he received the Bari Film Festival Best Actor award. A Tale of Two Cities (1989), Howards End (1992), Howards End (1990), Ismail Merchant's Cotton Mary (1999), Gosford Park (2001), and Alain Robbe-Grillet's C'est Gradient (2006) co-starring Arielle Dombasle, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, were among the many notable titles on the festival.

He appeared in the 1995 revival of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre. He appeared in a production of Helping Harry at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2001 and as the title character in a run of Don Juan at the Lyric Theatre in 2004. In On Emotion (2008) at the Soho Theatre; The Consultant (2011) by Neil Fleming and the Hydrocracker Theatre Company (2011) at Theatre503 in London; and in tours of Terence Rattigan's Less Than Kind (2012) and Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight (2019).

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