Born on March 1, 1973 in Suff... olk, England, Davenport grew up in both Ibiza and Suffolk. He attended shire schools until his parents' severance in 1981, when he went to live at the Dragon School. Davenport then enrolled at his frame's prehistoric junior high school, Cheltenham College. After graduation, he took a year substandard rather than entering university, during which he took a summer drama progress. Impressed at hand Davenport's performance as a rapper in a modus operandi skit, the chairman of the Welsh nationwide theater offered him a job. At 18, he moved to Wales to temporize bit parts in the theater's production of Hamlet. Davenport majored in English Letters and Fade away Studies at the University of East Anglia. When he finished school, his native urged him to essay getting a job behind the scenes in filmmaking or theater.

At her suggestion, Davenport wrote actor/paragraphist John Cleese to request him if he could responsibility as a casting assistant on the set of his upcoming talking picture Fierce Creatures (1997) (in which his coddle had a r“le). Cleese, as an alternative, cast Davenport in the film. Fierce Creatures was barely in post-development when Davenport made his feel put down-screen appear in This Lifestyle, a 1996 British boob tube series all over five young lawyers who share an apartment. His character as the self-preoccupied Miles Stewart in the well-reviewed, much-watched show made him an instant prominence in England. Davenport appeared as Malcolm in a TV update of Macbeth (1998), first starring as a detective who is recruited into a cryptic troop of vampire hunters in the stylish strike miniseries Ultraviolet. After playing a equivalent role in the horror screen The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998), Davenport landed a supporting position in his to begin major worldwide release, Anthony Minghella's The Gifted Mr. Ripley (1999). Critics hailed Davenport object of giving energy to what could be struck by handily been the cardboard cutout position of Ripley (Matt Damon)'s doomed lover, humane musician Peter Smith-Kinsley.

A year later, international audiences enjoyed Davenport again when Mystery! kicked crazy its 21st seasonable with his performance as Derek Jacobi's son in The Wyvern Novel. Based on Irish hack J.S. Le Fanu's 1869 thriller, the two-join in miniseries also starred Naomi Watts and Iain Glen.

He then tried his hand at comedy in Coupling, a goggle-box sitcom dubbed by reviewers as a British Friends. While continuing to arrive onscreen -- in films such as Subterrain (2001), Not Unhappy, Not Afraid (2001), Gypsy Chain (2001), and The Bunker (2001) -- Davenport returned to the put on to star in The Servant at England's Lyric Theater. Davenport is also an accomplished voice-over actor. He narrated the audio versions of John Buchan's The 39 Steps and Andy McNab's Crisis Four, as healthy as recorded parts in the radio productions of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and Nicholas Monsarrat's A Cruel Sea.

Most surprisingly, however, he is the sagacious voice behind the eminent "Looking for everything else, there's MasterCard" commercials.