James Norton, about to star in McMafia, a new American-Brit mini-series about the shady underbelly of international crime, launching on New Year’s Day in the UK, is being touted as the next James Bond. He’s swearing allegiance to Daniel Craig but his role as the British-raised son of a Russian mafia boss trying to escape the ties of organised crime, will give him a useful audition for the superspy role if and when it becomes vacant. He’s best known to British viewers from Happy Valley, Grantchester, and the most recent War & Peace – a madman, a vicar and a Russian prince, so versatile.
Born 18 July 1985 in London he has a volatile Sun Mars in Cancer square Pluto and trine an obsessively conscientious Saturn in Scorpio. His chart gives him an edge of danger and toughness; softened by a light-hearted Venus in Gemini trine Jupiter in outgoing Aquarius.
His Sun Mars are conjunct the Fixed Star Procyon which has a reputation for raising to great heights and then bringing crashing down, though others say it is a star of great fortune. One of the astronauts has his Sun conjunct Procyon and he managed to land safely and continued successfully thereafter.
His life is due for an upheaval, maybe transformation, from mid this year with tr Uranus opposition his Pluto, with tr Uranus square his Sun Mars before that in February which could be uncomfortable. But there’s no sign of the mega-bucks that would come with a Bond role just yet.