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