- Has often brought his retired father, to appear as an extra on shoots.
- His father was born in Tanzania. He was a Lecturer at Hull School of Art and Design.
- Educated at Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic (Benedictine) boarding independent school in the village of Ampleforth in North Yorkshire. He excelled in theatre and tennis.
- Attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London for three years, but left 6 months before graduation for an acting role in 2010.
- As of May 2020, he is the odds on favorite to replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond by international sports books (including William Hill at just 2 to 1).
- Has diabetes mellitus type 1.
- Received a Fitzwilliam Travel Grant to travel to Northern India, to teach and perform for schoolchildren at 16 schools.
- Son of Lavinia Jane Norman and Hugh Biddulph Norton, both teachers.
- From 2004 read Theology at Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2007 with First Class Honors.
- Great-grandson of Hugh Ross Norton, who was the Archdeacon of Sudbury, from 1945 to 1962; and of Vice-Admiral Horace Geoffrey Norman, who was an Allied Warship Commander.
- At the age of 15, worked at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
- In 2015, he was made a trustee of the Royal Theatrical Support Trust.
- He has English, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, and one sixteenth Ashkenazi Jewish, ancestry, the latter through his direct matrilineal line. Through his Jewish great-great-grandmother, whose family was from Germany and Denmark, James is related to Prime Minister David Cameron, through shared Rée ancestors.
- Was a member of the Marlowe Society theatre club at Cambridge.
- In 2014 bought a house in the Peckham area of London.
- His family lived in the town of Malton in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire.
- As of 2022, he has appeared in two films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: An Education (2009) and Little Women (2019).
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