Jack Davenport Movies and Career Information

Jack Davenport (born 1 March 1973) is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series This Life, Coupling and the Pirates of the Caribbean series of films. He has also appeared in many other Hollywood films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley. More recently, Davenport was part of the ensemble cast of characters in the drama series FlashForward. Davenport, the son of actors Nigel Davenport and Maria Aitken, was born in Merton, England and lived in Ibiza for the first seven years of his life. His uncle is writer and former Conservative Member of Parliament Jonathan Aitken, his maternal grandfather was politician William Aitken and his maternal great-grandfather was the first Baron Rugby. His parents divorced when he was seven, at which point he was sent to the independent Dragon School, a co-educational boarding school in Oxford, as his parents did not want him to become involved in the divorce proceedings. He then went on to attend the independent school Cheltenham College, followed by the British American Drama Academy. He is married to the actress Michelle Gomez. Davenport had not planned to become an actor; however, his career began when he took a gap year after