Early life and career

Flemyng was born in Putney, London, the son of Scottish television and film director Gordon Flemyng. He decided he wanted to become an actor after appearing in theatrical productions at his school, Christ's Hospital in Sussex. "I always wanted to be an actor," he later told the BBC. "From the time I fancied a girl who played Dorothy in the school production of The Wizard of Oz. I auditioned for the role of the scarecrow so that I could have the most stage time with her, but she ended up running off with the tin man!"

In the 1980s, he was involved with the National Youth Theatre and the political organisation the Young Socialists. He also became involved with Militant, an entryist group active within the Labour Party, and in 1987 was expelled from Labour for selling the Militant newspaper. Flemyng has subsequently claimed that both his theatrical and political activities at this time were simply a way of meeting girls. In 1990 he was admitted to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), where he was a classmate of Hermione Norris. Following his graduation from LAMDA in the early 1990s he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Television and film work

One of his first prominent roles on screen was a guest appearance in the American television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in 1992. He was then a regular in the ITV drama series Doctor Finlay from 1993 to 1996.

His first film appearance was in the 1994 version of The Jungle Book. His first major cinema role was in Angela Pope's 1996 drama Hollow Reed, where he played a child abuser, followed by a main role in Guy Ritchie's popular 1998 London gangster film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Flemyng later claimed to have lost so much money while playing poker with the film's backers in between takes on set that he had to work on the four days of re-shoots the film required for no fee. He went on to appear in films such as The Red Violin and Deep Rising (1998), Snatch (2000), George A. Romero's Bruiser (2000) and Rock Star (2001). Flemyng also starred in the short film Feeling Good, written by Dexter Fletcher, whom he met while working on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

In the early 2000s he featured in two big-budget Hollywood films which were adaptations of Alan Moore comic books; as John Netley in 2001's From Hell, with Johnny Depp, and 2003's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, with Sean Connery, in which Flemyng played Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. The latter film was not a success, but Flemyng commented that: "It was a bit of a nightmare... the film cost a fortune and didn't make back the money it was meant to... But I still get a huge kick out of doing films like that and From Hell. Any day you walk onto a set and Sean Connery or Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt is there has to be a good day."

In parallel with his film career, Flemyng has continued to take various television roles. He told BBC News Online in 2004 that: "Of the 40 feature films I've made, 15 of them failed to make it onto the screen and have only ever been seen by cast and crew. It is very frustrating when a film you really believe in remains unseen. That's not a problem with television. If you're a painter you don't paint a picture and then stick it under the bed - you want people to see it." In 2005 he played the famous science-fiction role of Professor Bernard Quatermass when digital television channel BBC Four produced a live remake of the 1953 serial The Quatermass Experiment. In 2005 he also played the part of Dimitry, a Russian ex-biological weapons specialist, in Transporter 2, where he was briefly reunited with Jason Statham.

In 2009, Flemyng joined the cast of the ITV science fiction cult drama series Primeval during its third series, as maverick ex-policeman Danny Quinn. He received top billing as the series' new star, taking over from Douglas Henshall. In March 2010 Flemyng earned a lead role as Cpl. Callow in the war/horror film The 4th Reich.

On 15 August 2010, it became public that he had been cast in the role of Azazel in the X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class, directed by Matthew Vaughn.

In 2011, Flemyng reprised his character of Danny Quinn in the last episode of Primeval 's fourth series, it is said that he would return as Danny Quinn one last time before the finale of the shows fifth series.

In 2012, he starred in I Give It a Year (released in Feb 2013), as the bride's brother-in-law in a British romcom by Working Title.

After two years Jason just completed work on the feature film 'The Journey' on which he also serves as Producer, in which he plays Ozzy. The film was written especially for him and took two years to complete, it was filmed in Greece and London and is directed by Lance Nielsen In January 2015, Flemyng signed with UK-based Evolution Pictures to direct the vampire film Reign of Blood.

Personal life

For nine years, Flemyng and actress Lena Headey were a couple; the relationship ended in 2001. Flemyng married Elly Fairman in the summer of 2008, in Tuscany, Italy. Flemyng enjoys long-distance running and has completed several marathons.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Doctor Finlay	Dr. David Neil	TV series: 12 episodes
1994	The Jungle Book	Lt. John Wilkins
1995	Rob Roy	Gregor
1996	Stealing Beauty	Gregory
1996	Hollow Reed	Frank Donally
1996	Alive and Kicking	Tonio	Originally released as Indian Summer
1997	The James Gang	Frank James
1997	The Life of Stuff	Willie Dobie
1997	Spiceworld: The Movie	Brad
1997	The Temptation of Franz Schubert	Franz von Schober	TV
1998	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Tom
1998	The Red Violin	Frederick Pope
1998	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Alec D'Urberville	TV
1998	Deep Rising	Mulligan
1999	Alice in Wonderland	The Knave of Hearts	TV
1999	Tube Tales	Luke	Segment: "Mr. Cool"
2000	Snatch	Darren
2000	Bruiser	Henry Creedlow
2001	Anazapta	Nicholas
2001	The Body	Father Walter Winstead
2001	From Hell	John Netley
2001	Mean Machine	Bob Likely
2001	The Bunker	Cpl. Baumann
2001	Rock Star	Bobby Beers
2002	Below	Stumbo
2003	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
2004	Lighthouse Hill	Charlie Davidson
2004	Aaltra	L'Anglais à la moto
2004	Atomik Circus - Le retour de James Bataille	James Bataille
2004	When I'm 64	Little Ray	TV
2004	Drum	Jim Bailey
2004	Layer Cake	Crazy Larry
2004	Seed of Chucky	Santa
2004	Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage	Lawrence Redding	TV
2005	A Woman in Winter	David
2005	Faith	Martin	TV
2005	Transporter 2	Dimitri
2005	The Quatermass Experiment	Professor Bernard Quatermass	TV
2005	The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag	Jim Corbett	TV
2006	Pu-239	Vlad
2006	Rollin' with the Nines	Capt. Fleming
2006	Losing Gemma	Zac	TV
2006	Telling Lies	Jack Munro
2006	Backwaters	Jason Weiss
2007	Stardust	Primus
2007	The Death and Life of Bobby Z	Brian Cervier
2007	The Riddle	Don Roberts CEO
2008	Mirrors	Larry Byrne
2008	Shifty	Glen
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Thomas Button	Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2009	Solomon Kane	Malachi
2009	Primeval	Danny Quinn	TV series: 9 episodes (2009-2011)
2009	City of Life	Guy Berger
2010	Clash of the Titans	Acrisius
2010	Kick-Ass	Lobby Goon
2010	The Social Network	Spectator	Uncredited
2010	Ironclad	Beckett
2011	Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors	Narrator	TV series documentary
2011	X-Men: First Class	Azazel
2011	Jack Falls	Damien
2011	Hanna	Sebastian
2011	Lost Christmas	Frank
2012	Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation	Rob Hart	Swedish film
2012	Great Expectations	Joe Gargery
2013	I Give It a Year	Hugh	British film
2013	Welcome to the Punch	Harvey Crown	British thriller
2013	Sunshine on Leith	Harry Harper
2013	Words of Everest	Edmund Hillary
2013	Black Mirror	Jack Napier	Episode: "The Waldo Moment"
2014	Viy	Jonathan Green	Russian-Ukrainian film
2014	The Musketeers	Vadim	Series 1, episode 2: "Sleight of Hand"
2014	Top Dog	Dan
2014	Gemma Bovery	Charles Bovery	Post-production
2014	The Missing	Mark
2014	The Journey
2015	The Last Kingdom	King Edmund
2016	Viy 2	Jonathan Green	Russian-Chinese film, sequel to Viy

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