Jack Davenport

Jack Arthur Davenport (born 1 March 1973)

Early life and education Davenport, the son of actor Nigel Davenport and actress Maria Aitken, was born in Wimbledon, London, and lived in Ibiza, Spain, for the first seven years of his life. Davenport was privately educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, before studying English Literature and Film at the University of East Anglia. It ran for two seasons and became a cult favorite on streaming services. The first season of the series follows a group of people putting on a Marilyn Monroe musical on Broadway. Davenport plays the musical's director. The second season expands as the various cast members branch out into other productions; Davenport's character, Derek Wills, quits the Broadway production of Bombshell to pursue a small off-Broadway musical and take it to Broadway with his protégé, Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee). The season ends with the two shows competing at the Tonys.

Davenport starred as the replacement singer in the video for Snow Patrol's single "Called Out in the Dark", released on YouTube on 17 August 2011, alongside Tara Summers and Gary Lightbody.

2018 saw Davenport's Broadway debut playing the Earl of Warwick in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan starring Condola Rashad. Laurence Olivier Post-production

Television

Theatre Year Play Role Venue Notes 1991 Hamlet Theatr Clwyd, Mold, Flintshire 1999 The Tempest Various with Holders Season Barbados 2001 The Servant Tony Lyric Theatre, London 2002 Lady Windermere's Fan Lord Darlington Theatre Royal Haymarket, London 2003 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Toby Young Soho Theatre, London 2006 Enemies Yakov Bardin Almeida Theatre, London 2018 Saint Joan Earl of Warwick Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York City 2024 The Human Body George Blythe The Donmar Warehouse, London

Radio Alistair Cooke's American Journey (2006) (BBC Radio 4) Jack Davenport reads The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards Most Promising Performer The Servant 2006 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Rumble (with Orlando Bloom) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Personal life Davenport's uncle is writer and former Conservative Party 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 has been married to actress Michelle Gomez since 2000. On 28 February 2023, Gomez announced on Instagram that she, Davenport, and their son had become naturalized citizens of the United States of America.