Jeremy Northam

Jeremy Philip Northam is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Ivor Novello in the 2001 film Gosford Park, as Dean Martin in the 2002 television movie Martin and Lewis, and as Thomas More on the Showtime series The Tudors. Most recently, he starred in the now-canceled CBS drama Miami Medical. Northam was born in Cambridge, as the youngest of four siblings. His mother, Rachel , was a potter and professor of economics, and his father, John Northam, was a professor of literature and theatre, as well as being an Ibsen specialist and teacher . Northam was educated at Bristol Grammar... School and Bedford College, University of London, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He married Canadian film/television make-up artist Liz Moro in April 2005, though they later divorced. Northam performed at the Royal National Theatre – he replaced Daniel Day-Lewis in the role of Hamlet , and won the Olivier Award in 1990 for "most promising newcomer" for his performance in The Voysey Inheritance.
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