Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Philip Northamis an English actor. He has appeared in the films Gosford Park, Emma, Amistad, The Winslow Boy, Enigma, Martin and Lewis, amongst others. He played Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 December 1961
attitudes certain changed toughness
Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there's a certain toughness about it.
ambition awful life mainly personal
I've never had an ambition to make that a part of my professional or personal life - I've done an awful lot of it, mainly in the States.
characters critical involved lives people sort
There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.
dad home sacrifice
My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.
funny-things space light
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
desire actors shy
I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
jobs heart fiction
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of #storytelling.
jobs reading thinking
I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
spy moscow realizing
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
children growing-up war
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
drama might documentaries
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
children scary energy
I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.
nice jamaica islands
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
children kids people
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.