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Jeremy Mark Noble (born 9 July 1960) is an English writer, screenwriter, playwright and actor.^[1][2]

Noble attended King's School, Bruton, and read English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was supervised by the poet Geoffrey Hill, and graduated with upper second-class honours in 1987. He won a Half Blue for polo, playing for Cambridge University against Oxford University (Cambridge won 3–2, 7 June 1987). He was honorary treasurer for Cambridge University Polo Club.^{[3][failed verification]}

Noble moved to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to become a writer.^[4] He has since worked with various Russian cultural figures including Valery Gergiev, Alexander Sokurov, and Vladimir Bortko.^[5]

Noble has written for The Washington Post,^[6] St. Petersburg Press,^[7] P. N. Review,^[8] Literary Review,^[9] Open Democracy Russia,^[10] and Open Russia.^[11] He has written extensively about Russian ballet, and for Dance Magazine.^[12]

Noble has translated extensively from Russian into English, for major arts organisations and events,^[13] the president of the Russian Federation,^[14] and the mayor of Moscow.^[15]

Noble wrote the English-language dialogue for the 2005 film The Sun (directed by Alexander Sokurov). His play Marlene Made Me was shortlisted for the UK International Playwriting Festival, 2004. He was co-writer and guest historian for Glamour Puds, series 2, episode 9.^[16]

He has been seen on Russian TV in the role of Dr Paulson in Peter the Great: The Testament, directed by Vladimir Bortko, and on Ukrainian TV in the role of President of the Council of Vampires in Split, directed by Vlad Lanne.^[17]

Noble wrote the English-language dialogue for the 2015 film Dusha shpiona (in English The Soul of a Spy),^[18] directed by Vladimir Bortko, starring Malcolm McDowell, Liam Cunningham, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fyodor Bondarchuk, and Andrey Chernyshov.

Noble co-wrote the book for Kingmaker the Musical, which received its premiere at the St James Theatre, London, 31 March 2015.^[19]

He is the editor of Opposing Forces: Plotting the new Russia,^[20] a published account of the conversation in Red Square, Moscow, between opposition leader^[21] Alexei Navalny and the Polish intellectual and former dissident Adam Michnik.

His first novel Villa Eilenroc was published in 2016.^[22] His second novel A Russian Ending was published in 2022.^[23]

• Noble, Jeremy (2022). A Russian Ending. London: Egret Press. ISBN 978-0-993386978.
• Noble, Jeremy (2016). Villa Eilenroc. London: Egret Press. ISBN 978-0-993386947.
• Noble, Jeremy (2016). Opposing Forces: Plotting the new Russia. London: Egret Press. ISBN 978-0-993386961.
• Noble, Jeremy (2000). Millennium of Russian Ballet 2001: Desk Diary. London: Russian Steppes. ISBN 978-1-928563068.
• Noble, Jeremy (1999). St. Petersburg: A Century of Russian Ballet – Desk Diary 2000. London: Russian Steppes. ISBN 978-1-928563006.

• Official website
• Jeremy Noble at IMDb