James Norton

Known for ActingBorn 1985-07-18 (age 41)Lambeth, London, England, UK

James 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.Read more

Movies & web series

A Little Life

House of the Dragon

Black Mirror

Wild West: America's Great Frontier

The Nevers

Happy Valley

Little Women

Inspector George Gently

Rush

House of Guinness

Doctor Who

War and Peace

Nowhere Special

King & Conqueror

To Walk Invisible

McMafia

Grantchester

Blandings

The Graham Norton Show

Restless

Belle

JOY

Everyday Performance Artists

Playing Nice

Death Comes to Pemberley

An Education

Sunny Dancer

The Trial of Christine Keeler

Mr. Jones

Bob Marley: One Love

By Any Means

The Great War: The People's Story

Mr. Turner

Life in Squares

Rogue Agent

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Jerk

Ex-Husbands

Hampstead

Things Heard & Seen

Flatliners

Northmen: A Viking Saga

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Late Night with Seth Meyers

This Morning

Bonobo

Angelica

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg