James Swanton

EN Texto en inglés Aún no hay artículo en tu idioma: extracto en inglés.

James Swanton is an English actor, known for his roles in horror films and in stage shows based on the works of Charles Dickens. Swanton was born and raised in York before going on to study English at Selwyn College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge, he frequently acted with the Marlowe Society. He became associated with "roles that could be described as outcasts or grotesques" and played Quasimodo in a stage production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Swanton made his professional stage debut in the one-man play Sikes & Nancy at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. The show was based on Charles Dickens's own 1868 adaptation of Oliver Twist. Sikes & Nancy later toured across the UK and ran at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, in repertory with Miss Havisham's Expectations starring Linda Marlowe. Then aged 23, Swanton was, according to The Telegraph, "the youngest actor ever to write, direct and star in a one-man West End show". For this performance, Swanton studied Henry Irving in The Bells and Donald Wolfit in King Lear to help him "recapture the spirit of melodramatic acting". Since 2017, Swanton has presented one-man plays at the Charles Dickens Museum, the author's only surviving London home.