Davenport, Jack 1973(?)–

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DAVENPORT, Jack 1973(?)

PERSONAL

Born March 1, 1973 (some sources cite 1972), in Suffolk, England; son of Nigel Davenport (an actor) and Maria Aitken (an actress); stepson of Patrick McGrath (a writer); married Michelle Gomez (an actress and singer), May 6, 2000. Education: University of East Anglia, degree in film and English; also attended Cheltenham College.

Addresses: Agent International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211; Hamilton Hodell, Ltd., 24 Hanway St., First Floor, London W1T 1UH, England.

Career: Actor. Voiceover artist for commercials.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Miles Andrews (some sources say Miles Stewart), This Life, BBC2 and BBC America, 19961997.

Steve Taylor, Coupling, BBC2, 20002002, and BBC America and PBS.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Robert Bradley, The Moth (also known as Catherine Cookson's The Moth ), 1997.

Detective sergeant Michael Colefield, Ultraviolet, SciFi Channel, 1998.

Charley Dickens (Charles Dickens's son), Dickens, BBC and PBS, 2002.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Harry Fairfield, The Wyvern Mystery, BBC and PBS, 2000.

Prince Lobkowitz, Eroica, BBC, 2003.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Malcolm, Macbeth, 1998.

Henry Austen, The Real Jane Austen (documentary), 2002.

Narrator, The Showbiz Set (documentary), Channel 4, 2002.

Narrator, A Very English Genius (documentary), BBC4, 2002.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Late Lunch, [Great Britain], 1998.

Also appeared as reader, "Essential Byron," Essential Poems.

Film Appearances:

Student zookeeper, Fierce Creatures, Universal, 1997.

Detective Bartone, Tale of the Mummy (also known Russell Mulcahy's Tale of the Mummy and Talos the Mummy ), Dimension Films, 1998.

Sergeant Roche, The Wisdom of Crocodiles (also known as Immortality ), Miramax, 1998.

A man, The Cookie Thief, Big Daddy, 1999.

Peter SmithKingsley, The Talented Mr. Ripley (also known as The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley ), Miramax, 1999.

Ticks, Dragonfarm, 1999.

Businessperson, Subterrain, Picture Farm, 2001.

Lance corporal Ebert, The Bunker, Millennium Films, 2001.

Leon, Gypsy Woman, Starfield, 2001.

Michael, Not Afraid, Not Afraid, Capitol, 2001.

Rory, Offending Angels, Guerilla, 2001.

Stanley, Look, F4 Jump Cuts, 2001.

Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Buena Vista, 2003.

An Epic at Sea: The Making of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, " Buena Vista, 2003.

Jack, Deadwood (also known as Three Men in a Restaurant ), The Electric Theatre, 2004.

Something Borrowed, Gold Circle, 2004.

Film Executive Producer:

Ticks, Dragonfarm, 1999.

Subterrain, Picture Farm, 2001.

Stage Appearances:

Hamlet, Wales, c. 1991.

Tony, The Servant, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, London, 2001.

Lady Windermere's Fan, London, 2002.

Appeared in other stage productions, including The Tempest.

Radio Appearances:

A Clockwork Orange, BBC Radio 4, 1998.

Appeared in other radio productions, including A Cruel Sea and Man and Superman.

RECORDINGS

Taped Readings:

Recorded audiobooks, including Come Together, Crisis Four, Lucky Jim, Remote Control, The Tesseract, and The 39 Steps.

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