# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-norton-q15990205
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:25:04.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-norton-q15990205"
name: "James Norton"
slug: "james-norton-q15990205"
description: "James Geoffrey Ian Norton is an English actor. He is known for roles in the television series Happy Valley (2014–2023), Grantchester (2014–2019), War & Peace (2016), and McMafia (2018). He played the title role in the 2019 film Mr. Jones and played King Harold Godwinson in the 2025 BBC historical mini-series King & Conqueror. He earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the British Academy Television Awards in 2015 for his performance as Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley. His most recent role is as Sean Rafferty in House of Guinness (2025)."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Norton_at_Cambridge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1985-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           26.442376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "JGINorton"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "James Norton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump