An English actor who starred in a hit BBC crime drama and a new Netflix series delighted staff at a café this week.

James Norton paid a visit to Basil in St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells , and spent time posing for photos.

The 40-year-old is well known for being a part of BBC’s TV series Happy Valley, where he played Tommy Lee Royce alongside actress Sarah Lancashire (Catherine Cawood).

He was also Pete Riley in ITV’s four-episode drama Playing Nice, as well as Grantchester, War & Peace, and McMafia.

Most recently, he had a lead role as Sean Rafferty in Netflix’s House of Guinness, which was released on the streaming platform at the end of September.

It follows the lives of the powerful and ambitious Guinness family in 19th-century Dublin, immediately after the death of patriarch Sir

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