James Norton
Birthday: 1985-07-18 | Place of Birth: Lambeth, London, England, UKJames Geoffrey Ian Norton (born 18 July 1985) is an English actor. He is known for roles in the television series Happy Valley (2014–2023), Grantchester (2014–2019), War & Peace (2016), and McMafia (2018). He played the title role in the 2019 film Mr. Jones. He played King Harold Godwinson in the 2025 BBC historical mini-series King & Conqueror. He earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the British Academy Television Awards in 2015 for his performance as Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley. He is also part of the main cast of House of Guinness (2025) and House of the Dragon (2026). Norton has a reputation for portraying villainous or complicated, morally conflicted characters. Description above is from the Wikipedia article James Norton (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Bob
as Cowboy
as Harold Godwinson
as Nick Pearce
as Pete Riley
as Sean Rafferty
as Chris Blackwell
as Robert Edwards
as Jude St. Francis
as Lord Ormund Hightower
as Robert Freegard
as George Claire
as Hugo Swann
as John
as Gareth Jones
as John Brooke
as Philip
as Stephen Ward
as Alex Godman
as Young Charles
as Harry
as Jamie
as Aaron
as Andrei Bolkonsky
as Duke of Wellington
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Bjorn
as Sir Clifford Chatterley
as Young Duncan Grant
