James Wilby was born on February 20, 1958 in Rangoon, Burma, the son of a British industrial company. He studied at a private boarding school in England, then studied mathematics at Durham University. However, from a young age, Wilby felt an interest in acting. One of James’ first mentors was the wife of the school principal, a professional actress who not only worked on his pronunciation, but also taught him the basics of acting technique. After university, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic
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James Wilby was born on February 20, 1958 in Rangoon, Burma, the son of a British industrial company. He studied at a private boarding school in England, then studied mathematics at Durham University. However, from a young age, Wilby felt an interest in acting. One of James’ first mentors was the wife of the school principal, a professional actress who not only worked on his pronunciation, but also taught him the basics of acting technique. After university, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1983. Soon Wilby made his debut on the professional stage in the play based on the play by Julian Mitchell “Another Country”. The year before, he starred in the film from the life of Oxford students “Privileged” (1982, dir. Michael Hoffman), where, among others, Hugh Grant, at that time still unknown young actor. For several years, Wilby starred in small roles on British television, until he received an offer from director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant to play the main role in the film adaptation of Edward Morgan Forster's novel Maurice. His partners in the film were starring with him in “Privileged” Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves. A subtle psychological retro drama about the love relationships of two friends at Cambridge University was released in 1987 and brought aspiring actors Grant and Wilby wide fame. For this film, they were both awarded the Venice Film Festival Prize. The following year, he starred in the love melodrama "Summer Story" (1988, dir. Piers Haggard) together with another partner in "Privileged", actress Imogen Stubbs, but much more interesting for him acting work was the role of the deceived husband in the film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "A handful of dust" (1988, dir. Charles Sturridge).
In the future, the actor has played the heroes of literary works, as a rule, people of noble origin - Sidney Carton in the television version of the novel by Charles Dickens, Robert C. Chater's novel (1992), "Lady Liubrefil's novel "Lady Czard" by George Reatrice" (1992) in the film "Lady Czard's "Jayd Cavallifreatrice" (1989), "Lady Cavallifrain's" by George Czard's "Jayd" (Jatricald's novel "Je" (1992), "Lady Charles Charles Charles Charles Charles Charles In 1992, he returned to cooperate with Ivory and Merchant in the film adaptation of the next work of Edward Morgan Forster “The Howards End Manor”, in which he received the role of the arrogant older scion of the rich aristocratic family of Charles Wilcox. Along with his work in cinema, Wilby continued to perform on the theatrical stage - he played St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre and Ferdinand in Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and in October 1995 he appeared on the stage of the London Barbican Theatre as Colonel Alfred Redl in John Osborne's play Patriot for Me (a production of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre). Soon he added to the list of aristocrats he played another character - cynical and selfish Freddie Nesbitt in Robert Altman's magnificent detective film Gosford Park (2001), sustained in the best traditions of the English detective. In recent years, Wilby has often starred in television dramas and TV series, and from time to time appears in secondary roles in feature films, such as in the musical biographical drama "Favourite" (2004, Irwin Winkler). He does not complain at all about the lack of attention to him by Hollywood producers, claiming that he has enough work in his homeland. In 2006, Wilby played the main role - art critic John Locke in the intellectual drama of the French writer and director Alain Rob-Grillier "You call Gradiv".
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