James Wilby

Actor

Birthday February 20, 1958

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Rangoon, Burma, Myanmar

Age 66 years old

Nationality Myanmar

Height 188 cm

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1958

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

Wilby was born in Rangoon, Burma to a corporate executive father.

He was educated at Terrington Hall and Sedbergh School, studied for a degree in Mathematics at Grey College, Durham, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

1982

Wilby's first appearance on screen was in the Oxford Film Company 1982 production Privileged alongside Hugh Grant.

1987

He is known to an international audience for roles in Maurice (1987), for which he received Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award with co-star Hugh Grant.

1988

He then starred in A Handful of Dust (1988), for which he won the Bari Film Festival Best Actor award.

1989

Then came A Tale of Two Cities (1989), Howards End (1992), the critically acclaimed Regeneration (1997), Ismail Merchant's Cotton Mary (1999), Gosford Park (2001) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle (2006) co-starring Arielle Dombasle which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

1994

From 1994 to 2015, Wilby owned The Laines, an 18th-century country house in Plumpton, East Sussex, near Lewes.

It was the childhood home of Queen Camilla.

1995

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.

2001

He then appeared in a production of Helping Harry at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2001; and in 2004 as the title character in a run of Don Juan at the Lyric Theatre.

2008

He has also starred in On Emotion (2008) at the Soho Theatre; The Consultant (2011) by Neil Fleming and the Hydrocracker Theatre Company at Theatre503 in London; and in tours of Terence Rattigan's Less Than Kind (2012) and Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight (2019).

He is married to Shana Louise and has four children.