Jeremy Swift

Known for ActingBorn 1960-06-27 (age 65)Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, UK

Jeremy Paul Swift (born 27 June 1960) is an English actor. He studied drama at Guildford School of Acting from 1978 to 1981. He worked almost exclusively in theatre throughout the 1980s, working with companies such as Deborah Warner's Kick Theatre and comedy performance-art group The People Show. During this period, he also appeared in numerous television commercials. In the 1990s, he acted at the National Theatre alongside David Tennant and Richard Wilson in Phyllida Lloyd's What the Butler Saw production. Swift has acted in films such as Robert Altman's murder mystery Gosford Park (2001), Michael Apted's historical drama Amazing Grace (2006), and the family adventure film Mary Poppins Returns (2018). He also appeared in Vanity Fair (1998), Foyle's War (2013-2015), Downton Abbey (2013-2015), The Durrells (2016), and National Treasure (2016). In 2021, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance in Ted Lasso for his portrayal of Leslie Higgins. In 2025, he appears as Mr Bosworth in the 5th series of All Creatures Great and Small.Read more

Movies & web series

Sofia the First: Royal Magic

Fords on Water

Ted Lasso

The Importance of Being Earnest

All Creatures Great & Small

The Smoking Room

Doc Martin

Downton Abbey

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

Downhill

Are You Ready for Love?

Reversals

Blind Men

Red Dwarf

10 Lives

Foyle's War

Sweetpea

The Crimson Field

Vanity Fair

The Durrells

The Tale of the Rat That Wrote

Garrow's Law

S Club 7

The Alan Clark Diaries

Strike

Boy A

Being Human

55 Degrees North

Count Arthur Strong

Descendants: The Rise of Red

Amazing Grace

A Christmas Carol

Dark Blue World

An Actor's Life for Me

Goodbye June

Gosford Park

Oliver Twist

Mary Poppins Returns

Houdini & Doyle

National Treasure

Bostock's Cup

The Bill

Winner Takes All

Bertie and Elizabeth

Dalziel and Pascoe

Wanderlust

M.I. High

Casualty