Birthday:
12-01-1961
(63 years)
Birthplace:
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Biography
Jeremy Philip Northam (born 1 December 1961) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Anthony Eden on Netflix's The Crown, Aubrey Longrigg in Our Kind of Traitor, Sir Thomas More on Showtime's The Tudors, Dean Martin in the 2002 television movie Martin and Lewis, Ivor Novello in Gosford Park, Judge Coglin in Amistad, and Mr. Knightley in Emma (1996). He also starred as Dr. Matthew Proctor in the now-canceled CBS drama Miami Medical.
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Cypher
Act like Morgan Sullivan
event2002 star_border 6.6
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An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
The Net
Act like Jack Devlin
event1995 star_border 6
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Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence, in order to protect the project.
Emma
Act like Mr. Knightley
event1996 star_border 6.7
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Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
Enigma
Act like Mr. Wigram
event2001 star_border 6.4
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The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
The Invasion
Act like Tucker Kaufman
event2007 star_border 6
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Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
The Singing Detective
Act like Mark Binney
event2003 star_border 5.1
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From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
Gosford Park
Act like Ivor Novello
event2001 star_border 6.8
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In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Mimic
Act like Peter Mann
event1997 star_border 6.1
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A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
Possession
Act like Randolph Henry Ash
event2002 star_border 6
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Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Creation
Act like John Brodie-Innes
event2009 star_border 6.4
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A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
Fiona's Story
Act like Simon
event2008
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Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
Happy, Texas
Act like Harry Sawyer
event1999 star_border 5.7
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Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.
An Ideal Husband
Act like Sir Robert Chiltern
event1999 star_border 6.5
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Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Amistad
Act like Judge Coglin
event1997 star_border 7
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In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Act like Walter Hagen
event2004 star_border 6
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The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Wuthering Heights
Act like Hindley Earnshaw
event1992 star_border 6.6
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Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
The Winslow Boy
Act like Sir Robert Morton
event1999 star_border 6.7
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Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice.
The Statement
Act like Colonel Roux
event2003 star_border 5.6
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The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
Glorious 39
Act like Joseph Balcombe
event2009 star_border 6
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A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.
Guy X
Act like Col. Woolwrap
event2005 star_border 4.8
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A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.
The Golden Bowl
Act like Prince Amerigo
event2000 star_border 6
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Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep this secret from Maggie, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father's pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?
Gloria
Act like Kevin
event1999 star_border 5.7
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After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
A Village Affair
Act like Anthony Jordan
event1995 star_border 5.1
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An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.
Dean Spanley
Act like Fisk Junior / Narrator (voice)
event2008 star_border 7.5
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Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
The Tribe
Act like Jamie
event1998 star_border 5.1
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Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
A Fatal Inversion
Act like Rufus
event1992 star_border 5.4
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Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
Our Kind of Traitor
Act like Aubrey Longrigg
event2016 star_border 6
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A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Act like Cary Grant (voice)
event2004 star_border 6.9
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Documentary that explores the life and career of leading man Cary Grant through film clips and interviews. Produced as S18E03 of the long running series American Masters.
A Cock and Bull Story
Act like Mark
event2005 star_border 6.2
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Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Act like John
event1993 star_border 6.2
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Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchhiker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.
Freud's Last Session
Act like Ernest Jones
event2023 star_border 6.6
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On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
The Misadventures of Margaret
Act like Edward Nathan
event1998 star_border 5.2
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A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.
Swamp Cats
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2004
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Film about a family of lions living in the swamps of the Okavango delta, seen through the eyes of a cub born just before the annual flood
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Act like Bertrand Russell
event2016 star_border 7.2
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Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
The Payback
Act like Vladimir
event2006
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Jeremy Northam portrays a real estate tycoon, while Fionnula Flanagan plays the matriarch of the Lazarov family, in this psychological thriller.
Eye in the Sky
Act like Brian Woodale
event2015 star_border 7
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A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Carrington
Act like Beacus Penrose
event1995 star_border 6.2
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Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
Journey's End
Act like Captain Stanhope
event1988 star_border 7
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A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.
Martin and Lewis
Act like Dean Martin
event2002 star_border 6.1
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The story of the 10-year rocky relationship between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Voices
Act like Philip Heseltine / Peter Warlock
event1995 star_border 4.8
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A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.
Official Secrets
Act like Ken MacDonald
event2019 star_border 7.2
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The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Act like Self
event2002 star_border 5
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A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
Act like Self
event2011
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Members of the cast and crew discuss making the film 'Mimic'.
The Tudors
Act like Sir Thomas More (20 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.8
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The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Act like Hugo Trent (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8.1
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From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Wish Me Luck
(23 ep.)
event1988 star_border 6.2
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The second world war experiences of brave women recruited as undercover agents behind enemy lines.
Piece of Cake
Act like 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (6 ep.)
event1988 star_border 6.8
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The life of a Royal Air Force fighter squadron from the day of the British entry into World War II through to one of the toughest days in the Battle of Britain.
Miami Medical
Act like Matthew Proctor (13 ep.)
event2010 star_border 7.3
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A team of expert surgeons thrive on the adrenaline rush of working at one of the premiere trauma facilities in the country while drawing upon their wit and irreverence to survive on the edge.
Natural World
Act like Narrator (voice) (4 ep.)
event1983 star_border 7.1
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Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983.
Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
The Crown
Act like Anthony Eden (13 ep.)
event2016 star_border 8.2
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The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.
The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
New Worlds
Act like Charles II (4 ep.)
event2014 star_border 6
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Set in the turbulent 1680s, this four-part drama takes place on both sides of the Atlantic, as these two young men and two young women commit their lives to a fairer future with blood, passion and urgency. New Worlds is a gripping story of love and loss and the human price paid for the freedoms we enjoy today.
White Heat
Act like Edward (6 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5.7
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In 1965, seven students meet and, despite being an assorted mix of people, become friends while they share a flat together in London. As time passes, their lives intertwine with each other as they feel the impact of political developments and the outbreak of war and disease.
A Fatal Inversion
Act like Rufus (3 ep.)
event1992
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After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
HBO First Look
(1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 4.9
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HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of Their Own starring Tom Hanks, and still airs today. The series shows behind-the-scenes looks at the filming and interviews with the actors. The show is part documentary and part advertisement. It airs on HBO with no set schedule.
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