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.
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| Vivien & the Florist
| Laurence Olivier
| Post-production
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Television
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
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| 1996–1997
| This Life
| Miles Stewart
| Series regular
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| 1998
| Ultraviolet
| Detective Sergeant Michael Colefield
| Series regular
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| rowspan="2"|1999
| Boiling Point
| Narrator
| Mini-series
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| Omnibus
| Narrator
| Episode: "Our Julie"
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| 2000–2004
| Coupling
| Steve Taylor
| Series regular
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| 2001
| Scribbling
| Narrator
| Episode: "Part Two"
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| 2002
| Dickens
| Charley Dickens
| 2 episodes
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| 2004
| Agatha Christie's Marple
| Superintendent Harper
| Episode: "The Body in the Library"
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| 2005–2007
| The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant
| Lieutenant Ralph Clarke
| Mini-series
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| 2008
| Swingtown
| Bruce Miller
| Series regular
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| 2009–2010
| FlashForward
| Lloyd Simcoe
| Series regular
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| 2012–2013
| Smash
| Derek Wills
| Series regular
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| 2013
| Breathless
| Otto Powell
| Series regular
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| 2014
| The Good Wife
| Frank Asher
| Episode: "Parallel Construction, Bitches"
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| 2015
| Life in Squares
| Older David Garnett
| 1 episode
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| 2016
| The Mindy Project
| Leland Breakfast
| Episode: "Leland Breakfast Is the Miracle Worker"
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| 2017
| White Famous
| Peter King
| Series regular
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| rowspan="2"|2018
| Next of Kin
| Guy Harcourt
| Mini-series
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| Deception
| Alistair Black
| 3 episodes
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| rowspan="2"|2019
| Why Women Kill
| Karl Grove
| Series regular
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| The Morning Show
| Jason Craig
| Series regular
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| 2021
| Why Women Kill
| The Narrator
| Series regular
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| 2022
| Ten Percent
| Jonathan Nightingale
| Series regular
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| rowspan="2"|2023
| Accused
| John
| 1 episode
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| Dr. Death
| Nils Headley
| 6 episodes, Season 2
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| rowspan="3"|2025
| The Assassin
| Sean
| upcoming
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|The Forsytes
| James Forsyte
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| All's Fair
| Oliver Draycott
| Episode: "When We Were Young"
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Theatre
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! Year
! Play
! Role
! Venue
! Notes
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| 1991
| Hamlet
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| Theatr Clwyd, Mold, Flintshire
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| 1999
| The Tempest
| Various
| with Holders Season Barbados
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| 2001
| The Servant
| Tony
| Lyric Theatre, London
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| 2002
| Lady Windermere's Fan
| Lord Darlington
| Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
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| 2003
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
| Toby Young
| Soho Theatre, London
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| 2006
| Enemies
| Yakov Bardin
| Almeida Theatre, London
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| 2018
| Saint Joan
| Earl of Warwick
| Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York City
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| 2024
| The Human Body
| George Blythe
| The Donmar Warehouse, London
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Radio
- Alistair Cooke's American Journey (2006) (BBC Radio 4)
- Jack Davenport reads The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Awards and nominations
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! Year
! Award
! Category
! Work
! Result
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| 2002
| Laurence Olivier Awards
| Most Promising Performer
| The Servant
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| 2006
| Teen Choice Awards
| Choice Movie: Rumble <small>(with Orlando Bloom)</small>
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
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Personal life
Davenport's 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 is married to actress Michelle Gomez. On 28 February 2023, Gomez announced on Instagram that she, Davenport, and their son had become naturalised American citizens.