About the Players
James Wilby (The Hon. Freddie Nesbitt)
James Wilby's first lead film role was in the Merchant Ivory adaptation of Maurice, playing the title part. He later reunited with the filmmakers to star in Howards End and, more recently, Cotton Mary.
His other screen credits include Joel Hopkins' Jump Tomorrow, Willard Carroll's Tom's Midnight Garden, Gillies Mackinnon's Regeneration (in which he portrayed Siegfried Sassoon), and Charles Sturridge's A Handful of Dust.
Wilby's extensive U.K. television work includes adaptations of D.H.
Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (starring as Sir Clifford Chatterley for director Ken Russell) and Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (starring as Sydney Carton for director Philippe Monniere); the popular miniseries Mother Love (directed by Simon Langton); and an appearance on The Storyteller (in an episode directed by Steve Barron).
Onstage, he has starred in several plays at the Chitchester Festival Theatre; Nicholas Hytner's staging of Shakespeare's As You Like It (at the Royal Exchange); and Peter Gill's staging of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me (with the Royal Shakespeare Company).
