James Jonathon Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is a British actor for film, TV and stage.
He was born in Rangoon, Burma. He was educated at Sedbergh School and from there went on to study for a degree at Grey College, University of Durham.
Married to Shana Louise and has the following children Barnaby John Loxley, Florence Hannah Mary, Nathaniel Jerome and Jesse Jack.
A well-known face on the stage and screen in the United Kingdom, Wilby's first appearance on screen was in the Oxford Film Company 1982 production Privileged alongside Hugh Grant . Wilby is best known to an international audience for roles in Maurice (1987), for which he received Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award with co-star Hugh Grant. Then he starred in A Handful of Dust (1988), Howards End (1992) and Gosford Park (2001) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle (2006) co-starring Arielle Dombasle which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
On stage, he starred in the 1995 revival of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatrehttp://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abj76/PG/works/a_patriot_for_me.shtml.
He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Has three children with Shana Magraw: Barnaby John Loxley (born in 1988) Florence Hannah Mary (born in 1992) Nathaniel Jerome (born in 1996)
Became an Associate Member of RADA.
