- Born: 20 February 1958 Rangoon, Burma
Detailed Biography
James Jonathon Wilby 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 , for which he received Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award with co-star Hugh Grant. Then he starred in A Handful of Dust , Howards End and Gosford Park and Alain Robbe-Grillet's C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle 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
We Need To Talk About Kieran - Professor Hugh MerrillShadows In The sun - Robert
A Risk Worth Taking - Patrick Trenchard
Lady Godiva - Leofric
Clapham Junction - Julian Rowan
Little Devil - Adrian Bishop
Marple: The Sittaford Mystery - Stanley Kirkwood
Surviving Disaster Fastnet Yacht Race - David Sheahan
C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle - John Locke
Jericho The Hollow Men - Alan Mills
Foyle's War They Fought in the Fields - Major Cornwall
Silent Witness Nowhere Fast - Matt Gibb
Island at War - Sen. James Dorr
De-Lovely - Edward Thomas
Sparkling Cyanide - Stephen Farraday
Murder in Mind Echoes - Daniel Morton/Sir Richard Morton
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life - Herbert Spencer
Bertie and Elizabeth - King George VI, aka "Bertie"
Gosford Park - Freddie Nesbitt
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years - Zippo Montefiore
Jump Tomorrow - Nathan
Trial & Retribution IV - James McCready
Cotton Mary - John MacIntosh
Tom's Midnight Garden - Uncle Alan Kitson
The Dark Room - Dr Alan Protheroe
Regeneration - 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
Original Sin - Gerard Etienne
The Woman in White - Sir Percival Glyde
Tales from the Crypt Horror in the Night
Witness Against Hitler - Helmuth James von Moltke
Treasure Seekers - Henry Carlisle
Crocodile Shoes - Ade Lynn
La Partie d'échecs - Lord Staunton
Lady Chatterley - Sir Clifford Chatterley
You Me + It - Charles Henderson
Howards End - Charles Wilcox
Immaculate Conception - Alistair
Tell Me That You Love Me - Michael Evans
Adam Bede - Arthur Donnithorne
The Siege of Venice
Conspiracy - Stringer
Mother Love - Christopher "Kit" Vesey
A Tale of Two Cities - Sydney Carton
A Handful of Dust - Tony Last
A Summer Story - Mr. Ashton
The Storyteller Sapsorrow - Prince
Maurice - Maurice Hall
A Room with a View - Party Guest
Dreamchild - Baker
Dutch Girls - Dundine
The Bill A Friend in Need - Higgins
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Crooked Man - Young James Barclay
Privileged - Jamie

James Wilby
James Wilby Movies
- We Need to Talk About Kieran - 2009
- Shadows in the Sun - 2009
- Lady Godiva - 2008
- Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle) - 2006
- De-Lovely - 2004
- Gosford Park - 2001
- Jump Tomorrow - 2001
- Cotton Mary - 1999
- Tom's Midnight Garden - 1999
- An Ideal Husband - 1998




