Jeremy Swift

Jeremy Paul Swift (born 27 June 1960) is an English actor.[1] He studied drama at Guildford School of Acting from 1978 to 1981 and worked almost exclusively in theatre throughout the 1980s, working with companies such as Deborah Warner's Kick Theatre company and comedy performance-art group The People Show. During this period Swift also worked on numerous television commercials. In the 1990s, he acted at the National Theatre working alongside David Tennant and Richard Wilson in Phyllida Lloyd's production of What the Butler Saw.

Jeremy Swift
Born
Jeremy Paul Swift

(1960-06-27) 27 June 1960
Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationActor
Years active1981–present
Spouse(s)Mary Roscoe
Children2

Swift acted in films such as Robert Altman's murder mystery Gosford Park (2001), Michael Apted's historical drama Amazing Grace (2006), and the family adventure film Mary Poppins Returns (2018). He also appeared in Vanity Fair (1998), Foyle's War (2013-2015), Downton Abbey (2013-2015), The Durrells (2016), and National Treasure (2016). In 2021, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance in Ted Lasso on Apple TV+.

Life and career

Swift was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. In the 2000s, Swift appeared in Gosford Park playing the footman Arthur, and Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist as Mr. Bumble. For BBC3, he played Barry in the cult hit The Smoking Room and had a theatrical hit with Abigail's Party, the last production at the old Hampstead Theatre and their longest running West End transfer.

In 2009, he played the lead in the true story of art forger Shaun Greenhalgh in The Antiques' Rogue Show[2] for BBC2 with Liz Smith and Peter Vaughn, The Deacon in a film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story The Duel and featured in Canoe Man, a 2010 TV drama based on the John Darwin disappearance case.

He starred in the independent British feature film Downhill, which is a comedy about four men attempting Alfred Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk which was released in 2014 and co-stars Ned Dennehy, Karl Theobald and Richard Lumsden. The film was directed by James Rouse and the screenplay was written by Torben Betts.

Swift is also a composer and his work includes the score for Werewolves: The Dark Survivors (Wide-eyed Entertainment) for the Discovery channel and ITV global.

On ITV, Swift played Septimus Spratt, the butler of the Dowager Countess, in Downton Abbey for three seasons and has been seen as Dennis, manservant to Countess Mavrodaki (Leslie Caron) in Episodes 3-6 of The Durrells. He also played election agent Glenvil Harris in the last two series of Foyle's War. He played Gooding in Mary Poppins Returns, which was released in 2018.

In 2020, he played the role of Leslie Higgins in Apple TV+'s show, Ted Lasso, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2021.[3][4]

Personal life

Swift is married to actress Mary Roscoe (who plays his wife, Julie Higgins, on Ted Lasso), whom he met while working on a play, and together they have two children who are both adopted.

Partial filmography

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Downton Abbey Nominated [5]
2019 CinEuphoria Awards Best Ensemble - International Competition Mary Poppins Returns Nominated [6]
2021 Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Series, Comedy Ted Lasso Nominated [7]
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated [8]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated

References
  1. Sandford, Christopher (24 November 2009). Polanski: A Biography. Macmillan. pp. 344–. ISBN 978-0-230-61176-4. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  2. "The Antiques Rogue Show". IMDb.
  3. Robertson, Chris (13 July 2021). "Emmys 2021: The Crown and The Mandalorian lead nominations with 24 nods - as British talent shines". Sky News. Sky.
  4. Robertson, Chris (13 July 2021). "Emmy Awards 2021: The full list of nominations - with The Crown, Pose, Lovecraft County and Black-ish dominating". Sky News. Sky.
  5. "Olivier Winners 2013". Olivier Awards. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  6. "SAG Awards: 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,' 'Minari' Top Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. 4 February 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  7. Davis, Clayton (7 March 2021). "Critics Choice Awards 2021 Full Winners: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Continues Its Reign on Awards Season". Variety. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  8. "HCA TV Awards Nominations: 'Ted Lasso' Leads Programs For Inaugural Honors; NBC, HBO & Netflix Lead Nets". Deadline Hollywod. Penske Media Corporation. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
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