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For American Medal of Honor recipient, see Jack A. Davenport.

Jack Davenport (born 1 March 1973) is an English film and television actor.

Davenport, son of Nigel Davenport and his second wife Maria Aitken, was born in Suffolk, England and lived in Ibiza for the first seven years of his life. His uncle is writer and politician Jonathan Aitken, his maternal grandfather was politician Bill Aitken, and his maternal great-grandfather was the first Baron Rugby. His parents divorced when he was seven, at which point he was sent to The Dragon School, a boarding school, as his parents did not want him to become involved in the divorce proceedings. He then went on to attend Cheltenham College. He is married to the actress Michelle Gomez.

Davenport had never thought he would go into acting. However, his acting career sprung into action when he took a gap year after attending Cheltenham College. He was on a summer drama course and a director from Clwyd Theatr Cymru (The Welsh National Theatre) saw him, liked what he did and asked Davenport to come and work for him. At 18 years of age he ended up in Wales, performing bit parts in Hamlet; where he became friends with Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill).

The year after, he attended the University of East Anglia (UEA), where he concentrated on Film Studies and English Literature. He tried out acting once more at the UEA, but was not, at this point, seriously interested in it. In fact, Davenport had considered becoming a member of a film crew, as opposed to acting in front of the camera. It was not until his mother advised him - after his graduation from UEA - to write a letter to John Cleese, requesting to work on the set of his upcoming film, Fierce Creatures, so that Davenport could gain some real experience behind the camera. Cleese instead sent Davenport's letter to the casting department, and he was cast as a Student Zookeeper. While it was a small part with very few lines, it provided him his first opportunity to work in front of the camera. After the production of Fierce Creatures was over, Davenport found an agent, who gained him an audition for the role of Miles Stewart in the BBC television drama series This Life. It was in this part that Davenport first rose to fame.

Since then Davenport has played roles in many successful films and TV series, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Coupling, and Ultraviolet and the box office smash Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and its sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

During his career Davenport has also performed voice-overs, having narrated the audio versions of John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps and recorded parts in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. He also provides the voice over for the British MasterCard advertisements (the American being done by Billy Crudup).

Most recently he was featured in the ITV1 drama series The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant. It is rumoured that he has been part of negotiations to be cast in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, although the role has been unspecified.