Known For: British actor (born 1952)
Category: Actors
Occupation: film actor, stage actor, television actor
Country: United Kingdom
City: Bilston
Date of Birth: Tuesday, 11 March 1952
Language English
James Edward Fleet is an English actor of theatre, radio and screen. He 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. Since 2020, he has played King George III in the Netflix Bridgerton.
BirthPlace | Bilston |
Education | Q3446028, Q270532, Q16948853 |
Spouses | Jane Booker |
Wikipedia | James_Fleet |
Fleet was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, to a Scottish mother, Christine, and an English father, Jim. He lived in Bilston until he was 10 but, when his father died, he moved to Aberdeenshire with his mother. He studied engineering at university in Aberdeen, where he joined the university dramatic society. Afterwards, he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.