Welcome to The James Wilby Archive, star of Maurice, Poldark, Immaculate Conception, A Summer Story and Handful of Dust. This is an unofficial archive and fansite celebrating over 40 years of James on stage and screen. The archive will not only provide you with information, images and much more on his previous work but will promote and support his upcoming projects. The fansite is committed to publishing only news and images that are relative to James's career.
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James Wilby

James Jonathon Wilby

DOB:: 20 February 1958
Born: Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
Star Sign: Pisces
Height: 6 feet 2
Eye colour: Blue-Green
Hair colour: Blonde
Chinese star sign: Dog

James 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.

Jame’s first appearance on screen was in the Oxford Film Company 1982 production Privileged alongside Hugh Grant. 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. He then starred in A Handful of Dust (1988), for which he won the Bari Film Festival Best Actor award. 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.

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. 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. 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).

From 1994 to 2015, James owned The Laines, an 18th-century country house in Plumpton, East Sussex, near Lewes. It was the childhood home of Queen Camilla.

 

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Recent Projects

By Royal Appointment Theatre play
Character: The Designer
Status: UK Tour start 5 June – 9 August
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I, Jack Wright TV series
Character: Max Preston
Status: starts on 23 April on U&Alibi
 

The Marlow Murder Club TV seriesl 
Character: Sir Peter Bailey
Status: Watch it online here at U.co.uk

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