James Norton is a special talent that has crossed over into performance media seen in a variety of territories. His works are popular in the United Kingdom, the United States and in countries around the world. James Norton has a lot of positive energy and a friendly personality; his perspectives on acting and creativity, in general, are excellent to listen to.
He is still young and has many more opportunities throughout his career to grow even further as a performing artist. It may be possible that due to streaming services, Norton’s acting credits will be made available to new audiences that otherwise would never have seen his productions. The future is bright for him, and the fans are excited every time he releases a new project or see a trailer of one of his upcoming projects.
Norton was born July 18th, 1985 in London. His acting credits include roles in British television shows Grantchester, War & Peace, McMafia and Happy Valley (in which he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2015).
Throughout his life, James Norton had many opportunities to sharpen his craft as an actor. Education has always been important to him because both of his parents were teachers. His father taught at the Hull School of Art and Design. While he was young his parents moved from London to live in North Yorkshire.
Norton attended Bramcote Prep School and Ampleforth College. He started working in live theater at the Stephen Joseph Theatre when he was 15. He was an actor at the Marlowe Society theatre at Cambridge in 2007. He then attended the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London but left before graduation in order to take an acting role that he could not turn down.
Ever since then James Norton has been a creative phenomenon, one of the most versatile actors in the industry right now for a variety of reasons. The first one being that while the majority of his acting credits are for British television, his popularity has crossed over into audiences in different places around the world. He and his works are recognized in the United States and many other territories, his work as an actor makes him an international success.
In addition to being one of the most recognized actors today, it is important to note the versatility of his craft. James Norton has many acting credits for film, television, theatre and was a voice actor for a video game.
For many actors, it can be difficult to transition from working on film and television where the artist gets multiple takes in order to find the best scenes possible to tell a story, to theatre which is live and every show feels different than the last. In the arts and entertainment industry there are a lot of people that strictly perform for the screen, others may only showcase their talents on the stage.
However, there are some actors with extraordinary talent that allows them to seamlessly work both on-screen and on stage at any given moment. Norton has the ability to deliver stellar performances through any creative medium as he has demonstrated throughout his career.
Another interesting aspect of Norton’s life is his connection to theology. Before becoming a full-time actor, Norton studied theology at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge. He had the opportunity to travel to Nepal, where he took an active interest in learning about Buddhism.
Norton considered becoming a clergy figure, but ultimately decided on a career in the performing arts. During many of his interviews he is often asked about his theological studies, and he always replies that he respects religions and philosophies, and he considers himself to be a spiritual person.
Norton’s career picked up in 2011 where he performed in London theatres in Journey’s End and The Lion in Winter. In 2013 he was in the mystery drama Death Comes to Pemberley on British television. In 2014 he made memorable characters on the big screen in Mr. Turner and Belle. His fanbase grew with his appearances in Happy Valley and Grantchester.
In January of this year what many thoughts was an announcement turned out to be a rumor; it became trending on the internet that Norton was going to be cast as the next James Bond. There were many articles published indicating that he is being strongly considered for the role. The rumor further stated that Norton’s contract would be for two years at £40million.
It has not been verified if this contract was offered or has been signed. It is safe to say that if Norton lands a role as James Bond his career would be taken to new heights, and it would further grow interested from the studios to continue to cast him as a leading man.
Over the last year, Norton has launched a film and TV production company in London named Rabbit Track Pictures. The objective of the company is to find interesting scripts and bring them to life. The company accepts script submissions and those submitted by publishers. Kitty Kaletsky has been named head of film and TV at the organization.
Norton’s Rabbit Track Pictures recently announced that it will be turning Out of Love (the debut novel of writer and YouTuber Hazel Hayes) into a TV series. Kaletsky is overseeing the adaptation of the novel into a television dramatic writing format. It is interesting to note that the author raised money for the adaptation through the crowd-funding platform Unbound in 2019. The author raised three times as much as her funding goal and sold 2,500 books to interested contributors on Unbound.
Norton recently had a film released at the Venice Film Festival last September entitled Nowhere Special. He is currently working on a new film named Things Heard and Seen. After the release of those two new films, Norton will be returning to the small screen in 2021 with the main role in the series The Nevers, a science fiction drama that will be produced and released by HBO. The series became a part of HBO after a bidding war with other networks and streaming services like Netflix.