Jasper Britton was born on 11 December 1962 and is an English actor.
10 Facts About Jasper Britton
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Jasper Britton's half-sisters are the television presenter Fern Britton and scriptwriter Cherry Britton.
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Jasper Britton worked for six years as an assistant stage manager and sound operator until 1989 when, while working for Jonathan Miller at the Old Vic, he forced his way into Miller's office and refused to leave until Miller agreed to let him audition for King Lear.
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Jasper Britton next played the groom role in Blood Wedding at the Young Vic, the first in a series of romantic leads, followed by Rupert Goold's adaptation of End of the Affair, Jonathan Church's Romeo and Juliet and Bill Bryden's Three Sisters.
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Jasper Britton was part of Trevor Nunn's ensemble company at the National Theatre in 1999, playing Thersites in Troilus and Cressida, Ryumin in Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk, and Smooth in Money.
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Jasper Britton played the title role Barabas in The Jew of Malta production at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2015.
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Jasper Britton replaced replace Nigel Lindsay as Henry Bolingbroke when the RSC's 2013 production of Richard II was shown at the Barbican Centre as part of the King and Country Cycle, as well as reprising his role as the title character in Henry IV Parts I and II.
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Jasper Britton played the Court Laureate in Terrence Malick's The New World alongside Colin Farrell, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Bale.
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Jasper Britton donned bells and hankies to play Will Frosser, the foreman of the Millsham Morris Side in the film Morris: A Life with Bells On.
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Jasper Britton appeared in two 2006 TV films: as pirate William Howard in Blackbeard with Mark Umbers and Stacy Keach, and alongside Oliver Dimsdale and Heathcote Williams in as Henry II in Nostradamus.