Jack Davenport, American actor and producer, was born on March 1, 1973 in Suffolk, England. His parents, Nigel Davenport and his mother, Maria Aitken, were actors.
When Jack was seven years old, his parents divorced, and in order not to traumatize the boy’s psyche, they sent him to study at an Oxford school. There he attended the drama club and for the first time began to think about his future, associated with the acting craft. After high school, Jack attended Cheltenham College and then graduated
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Jack Davenport, American actor and producer, was born on March 1, 1973 in Suffolk, England. His parents, Nigel Davenport and his mother, Maria Aitken, were actors.
When Jack was seven years old, his parents divorced, and in order not to traumatize the boy’s psyche, they sent him to study at an Oxford school. There he attended the drama club and for the first time began to think about his future, associated with the acting craft. After high school, Jack attended Cheltenham College and then graduated from the British American Drama Academy.
The actor was more attracted to work behind the camera, but life ordered otherwise. His first small role he gets in the comedy of Fred Skepsy and Robert Young “Frave Creatures” (1997).
In 1998, Jack Malcolm took part in a television production of Macbeth, and then he got the roles of a modern vampire hunter in Ultraviolet and in the horror film The Wisdom of Crocodiles. The role of Detective Barton in the fantastic blockbuster The Mummy: Prince of Egypt brought the actor true popularity.
A year later, he appeared on the screen in the sensational
The Talented Mr. Ripley , where he played the beloved hero Matt Damon (Matt Damon).
Further, Davenport joined the legendary TV show “Mystery!”, playing a detective in the two-part TV movie “The Secret of the Weavern Estate” based on the novel of 1869. But true fame came to Jack in 2003 after filming as British officer Norrington in the famous bestseller Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End (2007).
In addition, Davenport was remembered by the audience for such films as “The Amazing Journey of Mary Bryant”, “Swinger City”, “Remember what will happen”, “Rock Wave”.
Jack has a very impressive pedigree. His great-great-grandfather, John Maffey, was the first Baron Rugby, a distinguished diplomat, and British ambassador to Ireland during World War II. Another relative, Sir William Maxwell Aitken, was also a British politician and scholar, the first Baron Beaverbrook. Jack Davenport's uncle, Jonathan Aitken, is a former minister and Conservative MP. Jack's maternal grandfather, William Aitken, was a politician.
Jack is married to actress Michelle Gomez. In early 2010, the couple had a son Harry. /
