James D'Arcy

For people with a similar name, see James Darcy (disambiguation).

James D'Arcy
D'Arcy at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Simon Richard D'Arcy (1975-08-24) 24 August 1975 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Alma mater	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present

James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is an English actor and film director. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Agent Carter and the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, and murder suspect Lee Ashworth in the second season of the ITV series Broadchurch. D'Arcy also co-starred as Colonel Winnant in Christopher Nolan's war movie Dunkirk (2017).

Early life

D'Arcy was born on 24 August 1975 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and was raised in Fulham, London, with his younger sister Charlotte by their mother Caroline, a nurse. His father died when he was young. He has family in Ireland, England and Scotland, with his English relatives based around the Midlands.

After completing his education at Christ's Hospital in 1991, at age 17, D'Arcy went to Australia for a year. He worked in the drama department of Christ Church Grammar School in Perth, which gave him an interest in acting. When he returned to London he applied for drama school. He did a three-year course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), completing a BA in Acting in 1995.

During his time at LAMDA, he appeared in training productions of Heracles, As You Like It, Wild Honey, The Freedom of the City and Sherlock Holmes.

Career

His first appearances on television were small roles on the television series Silent Witness (1996) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1996), followed by roles in television films such as Nicholas Hawthorne in Ruth Rendell's Bribery and Corruption, Lord Cheshire in The Canterville Ghost, and Jonathan Maybury in The Ice House (all 1997).

In 1997, he played Blifil in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In 1999, he acted in the World War I drama The Trench as well as having a small role in the comedy Guest House Paradiso. From 2001 to the present, he played bigger roles and leading characters in the mini-series Rebel Heart (2001 as Ernie Coyne), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001, Nicholas Nickleby) and Revelation (2001, Jake Martel). In 2002, he portrayed a young Sherlock Holmes in the television film Sherlock: Case of Evil.

In 2003, he played the role of Barnaby Caspian in the film Dot the I, and the character Jim Caddon on the series P.O.W. He also gained wider recognition when he portrayed Lt. Tom Pullings in Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).

He played in horror films Exorcist: The Beginning (2004, Father Francis), An American Haunting (2005, Richard Powell) and Rise: Blood Hunter (2007, Bishop). Apart from that, he appeared on television as Derek Kettering in Agatha Christie's Poirot's The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005), as Jerry Burton in Agatha Christie's Marple: The Moving Finger, as Tiberius Gracchus in the episode "Revolution" of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2007), as Toby Clifford in Fallen Angel (2007) and as Tom Bertram in ITV's production of Mansfield Park (2007).

He worked for BBC radio dramas such as Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Winifred Holtby's The Crowded Street. He played the role of Duncan Atwood in Secret Diary of a Call Girl. In 2011, he played the role of King Edward VIII in W.E., the second film directed by Madonna. In 2012, he played Rufus Sixsmith (young and old) in addition to two other minor roles in the independent film Cloud Atlas, as well as Psycho star Anthony Perkins in Hitchcock.

In 2013, he played the role of Eric Zimit in After the Dark (other title: The Philosophers). In mid-2014, he played the role of Lee Ashworth in Broadchurch series 2, suspected of the murder of the two girls which almost killed Alec Hardy in the search to solve the case mentioned numerous times in Broadchurch series 1. He also appeared as the main villain in the 2014 action comedy Let's Be Cops, as a malevolent Los Angeles crime boss. He starred as a British Army Colonel Winnant in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017). In 2018 he appeared in Homeland Showtime series. Between January 2015 and March 2016, D'Arcy was a series regular in the television series Agent Carter, which shares continuity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the series, he played Edwin Jarvis, the loyal butler of Howard Stark. He reprised his role of Edwin Jarvis in Avengers: Endgame, making D'Arcy the first to have portrayed the same character originally from an MCU TV series into an MCU film.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Wilde	Friend
1998	Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle	Crap Actor Man 2
	Hiccup	Barry	Short
1999	The Trench	Pte. Colin Daventry
	Guest House Paradiso	Timothy Barker
2001	Revelation	Jake Martell
2003	dot the i	Barnaby F. Caspian
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Lt. Tom Pullings
2004	Exorcist: The Beginning	Father Francis
2005	An American Haunting	Richard Powell
2007	Rise: Blood Hunter	Bishop
2008	Flashbacks of a Fool	Jack Adams
2010	Natural Selection	John Henry Wilson	Short
2011	The Flight of the Swan	Alexis
	Age of Heroes	Ian Fleming
	Screwed	Sam
	W.E.	King Edward VIII
2012	In Their Skin	Bobby
	The Domino Effect	Mark
	Cloud Atlas	Rufus Sixsmith, Nurse James, Archivist
	Hitchcock	Anthony Perkins
	Overnight	Tom
2013	After the Dark	Mr. Zimit
	Dreams Never End	The Wolf	Short film
2014	Let's Be Cops	Mossi Kasic
	Instruments of Darkness	Banquo
2015	Jupiter Ascending	Maximilian Jones
	Survivor	Paul Anderson
2016	Guernica	Henry Hillard, author/journalist	Centered around the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War
2017	Dunkirk	Colonel Winnant
	The Snowman	Filip Becker
2019	Avengers: Endgame	Edwin Jarvis	Cameo
	Life Like	Julian
2020	Made in Italy	—	Writer and Director, post-production
	LX 2048	Adam Bird
	Six Minutes to Midnight	Captain Drey
2021	Warning	God	Voice
2022	North of Normal	Unknown
	Banking on Mr. Toad	Kenneth Grahame
2023	Oppenheimer		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Silent Witness	Student	Episode: "Long Days, Short Nights: Part 1"
	Dalziel and Pascoe	Franny Roote	Episode: "An Advancement of Learning"
	Brookside	Martin Cathcart	Episode: "Things to Sort Out"
1997	The Canterville Ghost	Lord Cheshire	TV film
	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Nicholas Hawthorne	2 episodes
	The Ice House	Jonathan Maybury	TV film
	A Dance to the Music of Time	Nicholas Jenkins	Miniseries; episode: "The Twenties"
	The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling	Blifil	Miniseries; 5 episodes
1999	Sunburn	Phil	1 episode
2001	Rebel Heart	Ernie Coyne	Miniseries; 4 episodes
	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Nicholas Nickleby	TV film
	Dark Realm	Dean	Episode: "Party On"
2002	Come Together	Jack	TV film
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Sir Gawain
	Sherlock: Case of Evil	Sherlock Holmes
2003	P.O.W.	Jim Caddon	6 episodes
2005	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Derek Kettering	Episode: "The Mystery of the Blue Train"
2006	Agatha Christie's Marple	Jerry Burton	Episode: "The Moving Finger"
	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Tiberius Gracchus	Episode: "Revolution"
	The Battle for Rome	Tiberius Gracchus	TV film
2007	Them	Cain Johnson
	Green	Sy
	Fallen Angel	Toby Clifford	Miniseries; episode: "The Judgement of Strangers"
	Mansfield Park	Tom Bertram	TV film
	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Guy Thompson	Episode: "Know Thine Enemy"
2008	Bonekickers	Captain Roberts	Episode: "The Lines of War"
	The Commander	Jerry	TV film
2009	The Eastmens	Dr. Peter Eastmen
	Into the Storm	Jock Colville
	Virtuality	Dr. Roger Fallon
2009–10	Secret Diary of a Call Girl	Duncan	8 episodes
2011	The Closer	Professor Alex Banks
2012	The Making of a Lady	Captain Alec Osborn	TV film
2012	Those Who Kill	Thomas Schaeffer	Main role
2015	Broadchurch	Lee Ashworth	Series 2
2015–16	Agent Carter	Edwin Jarvis	Main role
2018	Homeland	Anson	Recurring role
	Das Boot	Sinclair
2019	The Rook	Andrew Bristol	Miniseries
	The Hot Zone	Travis Rhodes
2021	Leonardo	Ludovico Sforza	Main role
	Red Election	Adam Cornwell
2022	Deadline	James	Main role

Awards

• Nominated for the Ian Charleson Award in 2002 (Outstanding Performance in a Classical Role) for Edward II.

External links

• James D'Arcy at IMDb