#Jack davenport series#
#Jack davenport tv#

The first season of the series follows a group of people coming together to put on a Marilyn Monroe musical on Broadway. It ran for two seasons and is now a cult favorite on streaming services. In February 2011, Davenport was cast in the NBC musical drama pilot Smash. The series was cancelled after a single season. In the series, Davenport played the character of Lloyd Simcoe, a physicist allegedly responsible for a worldwide blackout, which causes the whole world to see the future. In 2008, Davenport was cast in the ABC pilot FlashForward, which was based on a Robert J. In 2006, he featured in the ITV1 drama The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant and in 2009 starred in the film The Boat That Rocked. He also provides the voice over for the British MasterCard advertisements (the American being done by Billy Crudup). Ripley, Coupling and Ultraviolet, as well as the box office smash Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and its sequels, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.ĭuring his career Davenport has also performed voice-overs, having narrated the audio versions of John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps and recorded parts in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.

#Jack davenport tv#

Since then Davenport has played roles in many successful films and TV series, including The Talented Mr. After the production of Fierce Creatures was completed, Davenport found an agent who secured him an audition for the role of Miles Stewart in the BBC television drama series This Life. Whilst a small part with few lines it provided his first opportunity to work in front of the camera. Cleese instead sent Davenport's letter to the casting department, and he was subsequently cast as a trainee zookeeper. His mother advised him, after his graduation from UEA, to write to John Cleese requesting work on the set of his upcoming film, Fierce Creatures, so that Davenport could gain some experience behind the camera. Davenport had considered becoming a member of a film crew, as opposed to acting in front of the camera. He tried acting once more at the UEA but was not, at this point, particularly interested in it. The following year, he attended the University of East Anglia (UEA), concentrating in Film Studies and English Literature. Aged 18 he was in Wales, performing bit parts in Hamlet, where he became friends with Rhys Ifans. A director from Theatr Clwyd was impressed by his performance in a summer drama course and asked Davenport to work for him. Careerĭavenport had not planned to become an actor however, his career began when he took a gap year after attending Cheltenham College.

He then went on to attend Cheltenham College, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational), in the spa town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, in the West of England, followed by the British American Drama Academy in London. His parents divorced when he was seven, at which point he was sent to the independent Dragon School in Oxford, as his parents did not want him to become involved in the divorce proceedings. Through Jonathan Aitken's marriage to Elizabeth Rees-Williams, Davenport is also related to Jared Harris and Jamie Harris, her sons from her marriage to Richard Harris. His uncle is writer and former Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken, his maternal grandmother was socialite Penelope Aitken, his maternal grandfather was politician William Aitken, and one of his maternal great-grandfathers was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. Davenport, the son of actors Nigel Davenport and Maria Aitken, was born in Wimbledon, London, and lived in Ibiza, Spain, for the first seven years of his life.