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Actor Born: February 20, 1958 in Rangoon, Burma Biography:A consummately British leading man, actor "James Wilby" cut his thespian teeth in the British theater world and appeared in a number of British period films during the 1980s and 1990s.
Though he was born abroad, Wilby was educated in England, attending a private school and Durham University. Intent on becoming an actor, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the early '80s and began acting in plays, including Another Country. He added films to his resumé, with small roles in the drama "Privileged" (1982), alongside fellow newcomer "Hugh Grant", and the Lewis Carroll biopic "Dreamchild" (1985). Wilby firmly established himself as a rising British film actor with producer "Ismail Merchant" and director "James Ivory"'s adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel Maurice in 1987. Centering on love affairs between Wilby's 1910s title youth and "Hugh Grant" and "Rupert Graves", "Maurice" earned... Full Biography
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