Jeremy Northam

Cast as Thomas More in the Showtime series, "The Tudors"

Co-starred in "The Invasion," a film based on the 1956 film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

Had a supporting role in Michael Winterbottom's "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story"

Starred opposite James Caviezel in "Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius," based on the life of olf legend Bobby Jones

Appeared in "The Statement", about a former Nazi executioner

Cast as a 19th-century poet in "Possession", helmed by Neil LaBute

Played a government operative investigating a potential spy ring in "Enigma"; screened at Sundance

Portrayed British actor-composer Ivor Novello in "Gosford Park", director Robert Altman's period mystery

Co-starred in the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of Henry James' novel "The Golden Bowl"; premiered at Cannes

Had title role in Oliver Parker's film version of Oscar Wilde's play "An Ideal Husband"

Played a gangster in Sidney Lumet's remake of "Gloria", starring Sharon Stone

Portrayed the lawyer representing the title character in David Mamet's remake of "The Winslow Boy"

Returned to the London stage to play half of a gay couple in "Certain Young Men"

Cast as a real estate developer who falls in with a group of free spirits in the British TV-movie "The Tribe"

Starred opposite Mira Sorvino as her scientist-husband battling genetically altered cockroaches in "Mimic"

Had leading role as the dashing Mr. Knightly opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in "Emma"

American film debut as the villainous Jack Devlin opposite Sandra Bullock in "The Net"

Portrayed the real-life schizophrenic composer Peter Warlock in "Voices From a Locked Room"

Appeared in RSC productions of "Love's Labour's Lost" and "The Country Wife"

Co-starred with Alan Cumming in stage play "La Bete"

Feature film debut, played Hindley Earnshaw in remake of "Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights"

Supported Judi Dench and Michael Williams in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of "The Gift of the Gorgon"

Appeared in the TV drama "A Fatal Inversion"

Starred in the West End production of "The Voysey Inheritance"; won an Olivier Award as Outstanding Newcomer

Understudied, than replaced, Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role of the National Theatre production of "Hamlet"

Early TV credits, acting in a remake of "Suspicion" (aired in USA on PBS' "American Playhouse") and a British TV remake of the World War I drama "Journey's End"

Raised in Cambridge and Bristol, England