James Norton

James Norton

Born: July 18, 1985
in London, England, UK
James Geoffrey Ian Norton (born July 18, 1985) is an English film, television, and stage actor. He is known for roles in the television series Happy Valley, Grantchester, War & Peace and McMafia. He earned a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2015 for his performance as ex-convict Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley.

Movies for James Norton...

Ex-Husbands
Title: Ex-Husbands
Character: Nick Pearce
Released: June 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Overwhelmed by his pending divorce from and the declining health of his father, Peter plans a getaway to Tulum, insistent he knows nothing of his sons plans to be there at the same time for a bachelor party.
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Bob Marley: One Love
Title: Bob Marley: One Love
Character: Chris Blackwell
Released: February 14, 2024
Type: Movie
Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.
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A Little Life
Title: A Little Life
Character: Jude St. Francis
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Following four college friends in New York City: aspiring actor Willem, successful architect Malcolm, struggling artist JB, and prodigious lawyer Jude. As ambition, addiction, and pride threaten to pull the group apart, they always find themselves bound by their love for Jude and the mysteries of his past. But when those secrets come to light, they finally learn that to know Jude St Francis is to understand the limitless potential of love in the face of life.
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Title: Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Released: September 4, 2022
Type: TV
The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.
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Rogue Agent
Title: Rogue Agent
Character: Robert Freegard
Released: August 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.r him, and then brought him down.
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Things Heard & Seen
Title: Things Heard & Seen
Character: George Claire
Released: April 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.
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Title: The Nevers
Character: Hugo Swann
Released: April 11, 2021
Type: TV
In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.
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Nowhere Special
Title: Nowhere Special
Character: John
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.
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Title: The Trial of Christine Keeler
Character: Stephen Ward
Released: December 29, 2019
Type: TV
The minister, his mistress, and her lover the spy. The story of the woman at the centre of one of the 20th century's biggest scandals – which changed Britain forever.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: John Brooke
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Mr. Jones
Title: Mr. Jones
Character: Gareth Jones
Released: October 3, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
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Title: McMafia
Character: Alex Godman
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: TV
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.
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Angelica
Title: Angelica
Character: Harry
Released: November 17, 2017
Type: Movie
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
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Flatliners
Title: Flatliners
Character: Jamie
Released: September 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Five medical students, hoping to understand the mystery of what lies beyond life, embark on a dangerous experiment. When their hearts are stopped for a short period of time, they have a near-death experience…
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Hampstead
Title: Hampstead
Character: Philip
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
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To Walk Invisible
Title: To Walk Invisible
Character: Duke of Wellington
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: Movie
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
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Everyday Performance Artists
Title: Everyday Performance Artists
Character: Aaron
Released: November 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Starring Gemma Chan, James Norton and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and narrated by Shia LaBeouf, this is the story of an uncomfortably timed confession, interrupted by a decidedly talkative narrator.
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Title: Wild West: America's Great Frontier
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: TV
Discover the amazing ways nature has found to survive in the extremely testing land of America's wild west.
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Title: War and Peace
Character: Andrei Bolkonsky
Released: January 3, 2016
Type: TV
A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centered on the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Character: Sir Clifford Chatterley
Released: September 6, 2015
Type: Movie
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
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Title: Life In Squares
Character: Young Duncan Grant
Released: July 27, 2015
Type: TV
The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.
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Bonobo
Title: Bonobo
Character: Ralph
Released: December 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
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Mr. Turner
Title: Mr. Turner
Character: Clarinettist
Released: October 31, 2014
Type: Movie
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
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Northmen: A Viking Saga
Title: Northmen: A Viking Saga
Character: Bjorn
Released: October 23, 2014
Type: Movie
A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives.
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Title: Grantchester
Character: Sidney Chambers
Released: October 6, 2014
Type: TV
In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.
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Hollow
Title: Hollow
Character: Lone Man
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: Movie
The club tests its own characters and people for their strength and beliefe every while...
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Title: The Great War: The People's Story
Character: Will Martin
Released: August 10, 2014
Type: TV
Through original diaries, letters, and memoirs, this unforgettable documentary tells how the lives of regular British men and women were transformed by the Great War.
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Title: Happy Valley
Character: Tommy Lee Royce
Released: April 29, 2014
Type: TV
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
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Title: Death Comes to Pemberley
Character: Henry Alveston
Released: December 26, 2013
Type: TV
Adaptation of PD James's bestselling homage to Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt.
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Title: By Any Means
Character: Michael Prence
Released: September 22, 2013
Type: TV
By Any Means follows a clandestine unit living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their own game, existing in the grey area between the letter of the law and true justice.
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Rush
Title: Rush
Character: Guy Edwards
Released: September 2, 2013
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
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Belle
Title: Belle
Character: Oliver Ashford
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
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Title: Blandings
Character: Jimmy Belford
Released: January 13, 2013
Type: TV
Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 13 January 2013, and stars Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and Mark Williams. The series was produced with the partial financial assistance of the European Regional Development Fund.
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Title: Restless
Character: Kolia
Released: December 27, 2012
Type: TV
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Title: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Character: Owen
Released: December 7, 2012
Type: Movie
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened...
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On This Island
Title: On This Island
Character: Hadrian
Released: September 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in a satirical vision of modern Britain, Hadrian is a young and ambitious civil servant who arranges to receive Greek lessons in preparation for a government promotion which will see him steer British economic policy throughout Greece. But when he meets his teacher Maria, she asks that instead of payment, Hadrian exchanges an hour of his time each week to help her prepare for a citizenship exam that offers potential promotion from Class B to Class A immigrant.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Ryan Pound
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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An Education
Title: An Education
Character: Student
Released: October 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Onegin
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Playing Nice
Character: Pete Riley
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?
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Joy
Title: Joy
Character: Robert Edwards
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in the 1960s and 1970s, a nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon work to develop the first ‘test tube baby'.
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Heart of Darkness
Title: Heart of Darkness
Character: (voice)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, Marlow, captains a leaky steamboat up the River Congo in search of a mysterious figure named Kurtz who has carved out a brutal kingdom in which he has power of life and death over his native subjects.
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Title: King and Conqueror
Character: Harold, Earl of Wessex
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years. Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.