Adam James
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
Wicked: For Good
Galinda's Popsicle
Wicked
Galinda's Popsicle
You
Elliot Tannenberg
Death in Paradise
Rick Mayhew
The Day of the Jackal
Jeremy Whitelock
Foyle's War
Major Wesker
Endeavour
Kent Finn
Band of Brothers
Cleveland O. Petty
Grantchester
James Heath
Lewis
Ethan Croft
Waking the Dead
Michael Leonard
Hustle
Carlton Wood
The Buccaneers
Colonel St. George
Vigil
Lt Commander Mark Prentice
Johnny English Strikes Again
Pegasus
Law & Order: LA
Max Steinberg
Hunter Killer
Captain Forbes
Sharpe
Cpt. Philip Carline
We Live in Time
Simon Maxson
The Couple Next Door
Ben Gregston
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Matt
Dalgliesh
Alex Mayer
Consuming Passion
Mick
Hotel Babylon
Celebrity Catchphrase
England Expects
Daniel
Treason
Patrick Hamilton
Belgravia
John Bellasis
Ashes to Ashes
Edward Markham
Celebrity Mastermind
Self - Contestant
The Long Shadow
Desmond Wilcox
I May Destroy You
Julian
Murder Before Evensong
Bernard De Floures
As If
Richard
Choked Up
Robert West
Reversals
Dr. Glen Morrow
Coalition
Jeremy Heywood
A Little Chaos
Monsieur De Barra
Hotel Portofino
Jack Turner
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Titus
The Kill Team
Hardin
Love Soup
Thicker Than Water
Gavin Leonard
Churchill's First World War
Winston Churchill
The Game
George
Vexed
Charlie Brewer
The Suspect
Dr. Gerald 'Jack' Owens
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
DI McMillan
Murder on the Orient Express
William MacQueen
Last Chance Harvey
Josh Hillman
Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro
Family Tree
Ronnie Chadwick
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Mark McCaffrey
Bonekickers
Cold Lazarus
Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
Rupert
Wired
Simon
The Penitent - A Rational Man
The Lost Battalion
Capt. Nelson Holderman
Sharpe: The Legend
Carline
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Patrick Green QC
The Crimson Field
Col Charles Purbright
Life
Neil Baker
The Execution of Gary Glitter
John Carter QC
Eric, Ernie and Me
Ernest Maxin
Three Blind Mice
1st Exec (uncredited)
1066: A Year to Conquer England
Harold Godwinson
Catherine Tate's Nan
Charles Wilmott
The Mother of Tears
Michael Pierce
Sharpe's Regiment
Captain Carline
Sold
Out of the Grey
Henry
1066: A Year to Conquer England
Harold Godwinson
Sleep With Me
MacDara
Harley Street
King Charles III
Prime Minister Tristram Evans
Home from Home
Robert Dillon
Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono
William Ryder
National Theatre Live: Consent
Jake