James Edward Fleet was born on 11 March 1952 and is an English actor of theatre, radio and screen.
21 Facts About James Fleet
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James Fleet is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral and the dim-witted but kind-hearted Hugo Horton in the BBC sitcom television series The Vicar of Dibley.
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James Fleet lived in Bilston, West Midlands until he was 10 but, when his father died, James moved to Aberdeenshire with his mother.
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James Fleet studied engineering at university in Aberdeen, where he joined the university dramatic society.
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James Fleet began his career in the RSC, appearing in several plays in the early 1980s.
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James Fleet has since appeared in touring productions of, among others, Habeas Corpus and In the Club, as well as in Festen and Mary Stuart and others in the West End.
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Between 2000 and 2006, James Fleet played the painfully upright and decent Captain Brimshaw in Revolting People, a BBC Radio 4 comedy set in pre-revolutionary America.
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James Fleet appeared in the radio legal sitcom Chambers, which later moved onto television.
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James Fleet appeared as the Captain on the BBC Radio 7 series The Spaceship.
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James Fleet plays the part of Sir John Woodstock in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom The Castle and Inspector Lestrade in the first, third and fourth series of The Rivals.
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James Fleet played John Aubrey in the 2008 BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour production by Nick Warburton of Aubrey's Brief Lives.
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James Fleet appeared as Frederick Dorrit in the BBC's 2008 production of Little Dorrit.
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When Fleet appeared on the quiz show School's Out, it was revealed that one of his teachers at Banff Academy had written in his school report that "[James] is the stupidest boy I have ever had to teach, out of all the stupid boys I have ever had to teach," and that he was the only student in his sixth form not to have been made a prefect.
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In 2009, James Fleet appeared in a cameo role in the third series of Skins.
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James Fleet played a character called Robbie Sloan, a recently released convict, helping escaped prisoner Tony Gordon plot revenge on his ex-wife Carla Connor.
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In February 2011, James Fleet appeared as George, the father of werewolf George Sands, in Being Human.
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In September 2014, James Fleet appeared in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education as Richard, an ex-boyfriend of Rosie Gulliver.
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James Fleet has most recently appeared in an episode of ITVs second series of Plebs, as Stylax's racing patron.
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An April 2021 announcement stated that James Fleet would be joining the cast of the second season of All Creatures Great and Small in the role of Colonel Merrick.
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James Fleet has recurred as King George III in the Netflix romantic period drama Bridgerton, reprising the role in spin-off series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.
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James Fleet played the roles of Lefevre in the 2004 film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera, John Dashwood in 1995's Sense and Sensibility, and Lytton Strachey in the 2003 film Al Sur de Granada.