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Jack Davenport as Commodore James Norrington in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (2006) |
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Jack Davenport made his film debut in Mike Leigh's "Career Girls." Jack Davenport's other credits include "Fierce Creatures," "Tale of the Mummy," "The Wisdom of Crocodiles," "The Bunker" and "The Wedding Date." He also appeared and executive produced two acclaimed short films, "Ticks" and "Subterrain." Following the completion of his work in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," Jack Davenport return to Great Britain to take on the leading role of the feature film "The Key Man," also starring Brian Cox and Hugo Weaving.
On television, Jack Davenport has been seen in the series "Ultraviolet" and "Coupling," as well as "The Real Jane Austen," co-starring Anna Chancellor; "The Wyvern Mystery," with Derek Jacobi and Iain Glen for the BBC; a six-part series for Britain's Channel Four, "Ultraviolet"; two series of the BBC's award-winning "This Life"; and the miniseries "Dickens," in which he portrayed Charles Dickens' son; and the recently completed "Mary Bryant."
Jack Davenport has appeared on radio in "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Cruel Sea." Jack Davenport also participated in a special recording of "Man and Superman" with Ralph Fiennes, Judi Dench and Juliet Stevenson to mark 30 years of radio plays.
Jack Davenport was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in the critically acclaimed production of "The Servant" at the Lyric Theatre and appeared in London's West End in his much-praised one-man show entitled "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People." Most recently, while on hiatus from his work on "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," Jack Davenport starred in Gorki's "Enemies" at London's famed Almeida Theatre.
Born in London, England, Jack Davenport studied literature and film at the University of East Anglia. Jack Davenport is the son of actors Maria Aitken and Nigel Davenport and is married to actress Michelle Gomez.
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