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Adam James
0.6 Popularity
Biography
Adam James was born on 9 September 1972. Adam trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1996. He worked extensively in both TV and Theatre early on in his career, receiving a Best Newcomer nomination at the M.E.N awards for his work at the Royal Exchange and then coming to prominence in 2001 in 'Band of Brothers'. This followed a string of notable guest leads in such popular shows as Extras, Ashes to Ashes, Hustle, Dr. Who and Foyles War. In 2010 he performed in New York in 'The Pride' along side Ben Whishaw and Andrea Riseborough for which he won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role and also received the Drama Desk Nomination. He would return in 2013, this time Off Broadway with the critically acclaimed and Olivier Award winning play "Bull", only to return to Broadway once more in 2016 with the Olivier and Critics Circle award winning play "King Charles III" in which Adam played the Prime Minister, and later received the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, the same year in which he appeared in another Mike Bartlett hit "Dr.Foster", he married the former actress Victoria Shalet. Their first child was born in September 2016, and Adam has an adult daughter from a previous relationship. Adam then continued his collaboration with Mike Bartlett by filming both the much anticipated second series of Dr.Foster alongside a TV film version of King Charles III for BBC2. He has since returned to the stage and London's West End in the Olivier Award Winning "Girl From The North Country" at the Noel Coward Theatre and the hugely critically acclaimed "Consent" having transferred with it from the National Theatre. More recently he reunited with Rupert Goold for the world premiere of Anne Washburn's new play "Shipwreck" at the Almeida Theatre. His most recent Television work includes Julian Fellowes' new period drama "Belgravia" for ITV and Epix in the US (produced by Carnival the team behind Downtown Abbey) and also the hugely successful and critically acclaimed 12 part series "I May Destroy You" for the BBC and HBO, written, performed, produced an co-directed by Michaela Coel.
Known For
6.8
Galinda's Popsicle
Wicked: For Good
2025
7.4
Bernard De Floures
Murder Before Evensong
2025
8.2
Jeremy Whitelock
The Day of the Jackal
2024
6.9
Galinda's Popsicle
Wicked
2024
7.3
Simon Maxson
We Live in Time
2024
8.0
Patrick Green QC
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
2024
5.7
Ben Gregston
The Couple Next Door
2023
7.0
Colonel St. George
The Buccaneers
2023
0.0
Henry
Out of the Grey
2023
7.5
Desmond Wilcox
The Long Shadow
2023
Credits
Wicked: For Good
as Galinda's Popsicle
2025
6.8
Murder Before Evensong
as Bernard De Floures
2025
7.4
The Day of the Jackal
as Jeremy Whitelock
2024
8.2
Wicked
as Galinda's Popsicle
2024
6.9
We Live in Time
as Simon Maxson
2024
7.3
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
as Patrick Green QC
2024
8.0
The Couple Next Door
as Ben Gregston
2023
5.7
The Buccaneers
as Colonel St. George
2023
7.0
Out of the Grey
as Henry
2023
0.0
The Long Shadow
as Desmond Wilcox
2023
7.5
The Penitent - A Rational Man
2023
6.0
Choked Up
as Robert West
2023
7.0
Treason
as Patrick Hamilton
2022
6.8
The Suspect
as Dr. Gerald 'Jack' Owens
2022
6.7
Hotel Portofino
as Jack Turner
2022
6.7
Dalgliesh
as Alex Mayer
2021
6.7
Vigil
as Lt Commander Mark Prentice
2021
7.2
Life
as Neil Baker
2020
7.4
I May Destroy You
as Julian
2020
7.4
Belgravia
as John Bellasis
2020
7.1
The Kill Team
as Hardin
2019
6.5
Hunter Killer
as Captain Forbes
2018
6.9
Johnny English Strikes Again
as Pegasus
2018
6.3
You
as Elliot Tannenberg
2018
8.0
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018
0.0
Home from Home
as Robert Dillon
2018
5.5
Eric, Ernie and Me
as Ernest Maxin
2017
8.0
King Charles III
as Prime Minister Tristram Evans
2017
6.3
National Theatre Live: Consent
as Jake
2017
0.0
1066: A Year to Conquer England
as Harold Godwinson
2017
0.0
1066: A Year to Conquer England
as Harold Godwinson
2017
7.5
Catherine Tate's Nan
as Charles Wilmott
2015
7.7
Coalition
as Jeremy Heywood
2015
7.0
A Little Chaos
as Monsieur De Barra
2015
6.3
The Game
as George
2014
7.3
Grantchester
as James Heath
2014
7.3
The Crimson Field
as Col Charles Purbright
2014
7.5
Thicker Than Water
as Gavin Leonard
2014
6.5
Churchill's First World War
as Winston Churchill
2013
7.5
Family Tree
as Ronnie Chadwick
2013
6.4
Endeavour
as Kent Finn
2013
8.1
Death in Paradise
as Rick Mayhew
2011
7.5
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don Pedro
2011
8.3
Law & Order: LA
as Max Steinberg
2010
6.8
Vexed
as Charlie Brewer
2010
6.9
Sleep With Me
as MacDara
2009
3.0
The Execution of Gary Glitter
as John Carter QC
2009
6.2
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
as DI McMillan
2009
7.5
Last Chance Harvey
as Josh Hillman
2008
6.3
Consuming Passion
as Mick
2008
6.4
Wired
as Simon
2008
6.6
Harley Street
2008
7.5
Bonekickers
2008
5.6
Ashes to Ashes
as Edward Markham
2008
7.7
🎬
Sold
2007
1.0
The Mother of Tears
as Michael Pierce
2007
4.5
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
as Matt
2007
6.8
Lewis
as Ethan Croft
2007
7.6
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
as Mark McCaffrey
2006
6.2
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Titus
2006
7.4
Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
as Rupert
2006
6.0
Hotel Babylon
2006
7.3
Love Soup
2005
8.3
Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono
as William Ryder
2005
0.0
🎬
England Expects
as Daniel
2004
8.0
Hustle
as Carlton Wood
2004
7.7
Celebrity Mastermind
as Self - Contestant
2003
6.0
🎬
Reversals
as Dr. Glen Morrow
2003
6.0
Three Blind Mice
as 1st Exec (uncredited)
2003
3.8
Foyle's War
as Major Wesker
2002
7.9
The Lost Battalion
as Capt. Nelson Holderman
2001
6.8
Band of Brothers
as Cleveland O. Petty
2001
8.6
Waking the Dead
as Michael Leonard
2001
7.2
Murder on the Orient Express
as William MacQueen
2001
6.1
As If
as Richard
2001
7.5
Sharpe: The Legend
as Carline
1997
5.0
Cold Lazarus
1996
6.8
Sharpe's Regiment
as Captain Carline
1996
7.0
Sharpe
as Cpt. Philip Carline
1993
8.0