For American Medal of Honor recipient, see Jack A. Davenport.

Jack Davenport
Born	1 March 1973 (age 34) Suffolk, England
Spouse(s)	Michelle Gomez

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Biography

Early life

Davenport, son of Nigel Davenport and his second wife Maria Aitken, lived in Ibiza for the first seven years of his life. His parents divorced when he was seven, at which point he was sent to The Dragon School, a boarding school, as his parents did not want him to become involved in the divorce proceedings. He then went on to attend Cheltenham College. Davenport's uncle is disgraced former politician Jonathan Aitken. He is married to the actress Michelle Gomez. Nigel Davenport (born 23 May 1928) is an English actor. ... Maria Aitken is a British actress and director, born 12 September 1945 in Dublin to Sir William Aitken (Conservative MP) and Penelope Aitken, daughter of John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. ... Ibiza (Eivissa) is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea (), belonging to Balearic Islands (Spain). ... Dragon School logo School House at the Dragon School, on Bardwell Road. ... Cheltenham College is a famous English coeducational independent school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. ... Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born August 30, 1942) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament, British government minister and convicted perjurer. ... Michelle Gomez as Sue White in Green Wing Michelle Gomez is a Scottish actress, born in Glasgow. ...

Acting career

Davenport had never thought he would go into acting. However, his acting career sprung into action when he took a gap year after attending Cheltenham College. He was on a summer drama course and a director from Clwyd Theatr Cymru (The Welsh National Theatre) saw him, liked what he did and asked Davenport to come and work for him. At 18 years of age he ended up in Wales, performing bit parts in Hamlet; where he became friends with Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill). Cheltenham College is a famous English coeducational independent school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. ... Clwyd Theatr Cymru (IPA: ), known until 1998 as Theatr Clwyd, is a regional arts centre located 1 mile (2 km) from Mold, Flintshire, in north-east Wales. ... On set: Importance of Being Idle From left: Andy Bell, Liam Gallagher, Rhys Ifans, Noel Gallagher, Zak Starkey and Gem Archer Rhys Ifans IPA: (approximately hris EEvans) (born 22 July 1968, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales) is a Welsh actor. ... This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ...

The year after, he attended the University of East Anglia (UEA), where he concentrated on Film Studies and English Literature. He tried out acting once more at the UEA, but was not, at this point, seriously interested in it. In fact, Davenport had considered becoming a member of a film crew, as opposed to acting in front of the camera. It was not until his mother advised him - after his graduation from UEA - to write a letter to John Cleese, requesting to work on the set of his upcoming film, Fierce Creatures, so that Davenport could gain some real experience behind the camera. Cleese instead sent Davenport's letter to the casting department, and he was cast as a Student Zookeeper. While it was a small part with very few lines, it provided him his first opportunity to work in front of the camera. After the production of Fierce Creatures was over, Davenport found an agent, who gained him an audition for the role of Miles Stewart in the BBC television drama series This Life. It was in this part that Davenport first rose to fame. The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a leading campus university located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, founded as part of the British Governments New Universities programme in the 1960s. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... UEA stands for: University of East Anglia, in Norwich, United Kingdom Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World Esperanto Association), of Rotterdam, Netherlands Utah Education Association Urban Exploration Alberta UEA break, when students in Utah get two days off of school for teachers to attend conferences. ... John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python. ... Fierce Creatures is a 1997 comedy movie, John Cleese and companys follow-up to the widely popular A Fish Called Wanda. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ... This Life was a BBC television drama, produced by World Productions and screened on BBC Two, running for two series in 1996 and 1997 and a reunion special in 2007. ...

Since then Davenport has played roles in many successful films and TV series, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Coupling, and Ultraviolet and the box office smash Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and its sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The Talented Mr. ... Coupling is a British television sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC2 from May 2000 to 2004. ... Ultraviolet is a 1998 British television serial written and directed by Joe Ahearne and starring Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, Idris Elba and Philip Quast. ... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie of adventure and romance set in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century. ...

During his career Davenport has also performed voice-overs, having narrated the audio versions of John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps and recorded parts in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. He also provides the voice over for the British MasterCard advertisements (the American being done by Billy Crudup). This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. ... The Thirty-nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1915 by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. ... Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was an English novelist, critic and composer. ... Clockwork Orange redirects here. ... MasterCard Worldwide (NYSE: MA) is a membership organization owned by the 25,000+ financial institutions that issue its card. ... William Crudup (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor. ...

Most recently he was featured in the ITV1 drama series The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant.

Filmography

• This Life (1996)
• The Moth (1997) (TV)
• Fierce Creatures (1997)
• Macbeth (1998)
• Tale of the Mummy (1998)
• Ultraviolet (1998) (TV)
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)
• Ticks (1999)
• The Cookie Thief (1999)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• The Wyvern Mystery (2000) (TV)
• Coupling (2000-2004) (TV)
• Subterrain (2001)
• Not Afraid, Not Afraid (2001)
• Look (2001)
• Gypsy Woman (2001)
• Asylum't' (2001) (TV)
• Offending Angels (2001)
• The Bunker (2001)
• Dickens (2002) (TV)
• A Very English Genius (2002) (TV - Narrator)
• The Showbiz Set (2002) (TV -Narrator)
• The Real Jane Austen (2002) TV
• The Boy Who Would be King (2003) (TV - Narrator)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Beethoven - Eroica (2003) (TV)
• The Welsh Great Escape (2003) (TV)
• Terrible Kisses (2004)
• Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (TV)
• The Libertine (2005)
• Mary Bryant (2005) (TV)
• The Wedding Date (2005)
• A Higher Agency (2005)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
• This Life + 10 (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

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Producer filmography

• Subterrain (2001) Executive Producer
• Ticks (1999) Executive Producer

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Radio

• Alistair Cooke's American Journey (2006) (reading the veteran journalist's wartime reports for BBC Radio 4)

Alistair Cooke KBE (November 20, 1908 – March 30, 2004) was a legendary British-American journalist and broadcaster. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

External links

• Jack Davenport at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.jack-davenport.net - fansite