Adam James (actor)

Adam James
Born	Adam James (1972-09-09) 9 September 1972 London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Victoria Shalet (m. 2015)
Children	2

Adam James (born 9 September 1972) is an English television and stage actor.

Background

James's godfather was Jon Pertwee. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he was a contemporary of Dominic West and Daniel Evans and graduated in 1996. In September 2015, he married actress and psychotherapist Victoria Shalet. Their first child was born in September 2016, and he has a daughter from a previous relationship, Daisy.

Career

His credits include Band of Brothers, The Mother of Tears, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Bonekickers, Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant and a long running storyline in Casualty, as well as an episode of ITV2 drama Secret Diary of a Call Girl. He appeared in Extras, as the new agent of Ricky Gervais's character. He has also appeared in Ashes to Ashes as Edward Markham in the first episode.

In 2009 James appeared in the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Dead", co-starring with David Tennant, the pair having first worked together in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre 1999 production of King Lear. James' other theatre work includes Blood and Gifts (2010) and Much Ado About Nothing (2011), alongside David Tennant and Catherine Tate. He has recently appeared in a few rehearsed readings at the Royal Court and Finborough Theatre.

He played Monsieur de Barra in the feature film A Little Chaos and recently played Jeremy Heywood in Coalition, a Channel 4 drama about the 2010 election. In November 2015 he reprised his role as Prime Minister Mr Evans in King Charles III on Broadway, New York. In April and May 2016, he played Hovstad in An Enemy of the People at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Cold Lazarus	Militia man
1996	Island	Ross
1996	Sharpe's Regiment	Captain Carline
1996	The Bill	PC Kelleher	Played PC Kelleher in 2 episodes – "A Good Night Out" and "No Assistance Required".
1998	Silent Witness	Eden Blackman
1998	Life of the Party	Winston Spencer Churchill
1999	Let Them Eat Cake	Marquis de Bonvie
2000	Tenth Kingdom	Beantown Man
2000	I Saw You	Kevin
2001	Murder on the Orient Express	William McQueen
2001	Table Twelve-After Hours	Chef
2001	Band of Brothers	Pvt. Cleveland O. Petty	playing Pvt Petty in Currahee (Episode 1), Day of Days (Episode 2), Carentan (Episode 3) and Crossroads (Episode 5)
2001	The Lost Battalion	Capt. Nelson Holderman, Co. K 307 th
2002	Trust	Charles
2003	Holby City	Tim Preston	Adam also played Pete Guildford in Casualty
2003	Doctors	Bryan Evans
2003	Reversals	Dr Glen Morrow
2004	England Expects	Daniel Isaacs
2004	As If	Richard
2005	Meucci	William Ryder	Italian TV film
2005	Casualty	Pete Guildford	playing Pete Guildford for 17 episodes
2005	Love Soup	Guy Cassidy
2006	Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in my Heart	Rupert
2006	Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Titus Flavius	playing Titus Flavius in episode 3, The Jewish Revolt (a.k.a. Rebellion)
2006	Desperados	David Barclay
2006	The Amazing Mrs Pritchard	Mark McCaffrey
2007	Judge John Deed	Major General Waters	He played Major General Waters in parts 1 & 2 of "War Crimes"
2007	Waking the Dead	Michael Leonard	He played Michael Leonard in parts 1 & 2 of "Deus Ex Machina"
2007	The Commander	Tony Lattice
2007	Sold	Darius Bowmore
2007	Extras	Tre Cooper	Adam played Ricky Gervais' agent in the final episode
2008	Ashes to Ashes	Edward Markham	playing a drug dealer in first episode of Life on Mars sequel
2008	My Family	Daniel
2008	Secret Diary of a Call Girl	Matt Hexton/Tony	Adam appeared in series two
2008	Harley Street	Calvin Morgan	first episode
2008	Bonekickers	John	episode "The Lines of War"
2008	Consuming Passion	Mick	TV film
2008	Wired	Simon Penvell
2009	Hotel Babylon	Carlton Foreman	series 4, episode 2 playing a fight promoter
2009	Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant	Henry VIII
2009	Jonathan Creek	Alec	Christmas special "The Grinning Man"
2009	Hustle	Carlton Wood	Adam appeared in episode 2 and episode 6 of the fifth series
2009	Doctor Who	D.I. McMillan	Adam appeared in the Doctor Who Easter special "Planet of the Dead"
2009	The Execution of Gary Glitter	John Carter QC
2009	Sleep With Me	MacDara
2010	A Touch of Frost	Gregory Salmond	Adam played a lawyer in the last two episodes "If the Dogs Run Free parts 1 & 2"
2010	Foyle's War	Major Wesker
2010	Lewis	Ethan Croft	Adam appeared in "Your Sudden Death Question" as an officially designated troublemaker
2010	Trinny and Susannah: From Boom to Bust	Dinner Guest	Adam appeared in part four
2010	Miranda	Rupert "the bear"	Episode "Let's Do It"
2010	In Dalston Nobody Can Hear You Scream	Pen
2011	Law & Order: Los Angeles	Max Steinberg	playing a lawyer in episode "Benedict Canyon"
2012	Vexed	Charlie Brewer	Series 2
2012	Silent Witness	Dr Richard Fell	(second time in Silent Witness, playing a different character)
2013	Holby City	Alan McLaren	Episode "Promises, Promises"
2013	Law & Order: UK	Michael Gennis	Season 7 Episode 1 Tracks
2013	Churchill's First World War (a.k.a. Churchill:The War Letters)	Winston Churchill	Docudrama (First Broadcast 30 July 2013 BBC4) Adam played Winston Churchill's grandson in Life of the Party (1998)
2013	Family Tree	Ronnie Chadwick	HBO/BBC2 Comedy Adam appears in the fourth episode. (First Broadcast 6 August 2013 in the UK).
2014	The Crimson Field (formerly The Ark)	Colonel Charles Purbright	2 episodes. Adam appeared in the first, (6 April 2014)and the last of the six episode series
2014	The Game	George	TV Series for BBC, '70s set spy show, expected to be shown Spring 2015
2014	The Assets	Walt Escott	TV Series for ABC
2014	Grantchester	James Heath	TV Series for ITV
2014	Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot	State Inquisitor	BBC Documentary on the Gunpowder Plot
2015	Coalition	Jeremy Heywood	Channel 4 Drama about 2010 UK election (Aired Saturday 28 March 2015 at 9pm).
2015	Drifters	Julian	Season 3 Episode 1
2015	Doctor Foster	Neil	Mini Series
2015	Capture the Flag	Scott Goldwing	Voice Role
2015	Catherine Tate's Nan	Charles Wilmott
2016 –	Home from Home	Robert Dillon	BBC sitcom (regular role)
2017	King Charles III	Prime Minister Tristan Evans
2017	1066: A Year to Conquer England	Harold Godwinson	Docudrama
2020	Belgravia	John Belassis

Film and shorts

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Forbidden Territory	Albert Barney
1999	Gregory's Two Girls	Phil
2000	High Heels and Low Lifes	Rupert
2001	Its Not You Its Me	Rob	short
2002	Three Blind Mice	1st Exec	(uncredited)
2002	A Family Man	Mark	short
2003	Prima Dammi Un Baccio	Stephen	speaks Italian
2004	Show	–	short
2004	De-Lovely	Horsegroom
2006	Just in Time	John Graham Ashton	short
2006	The Road to Guantanamo	Chris Mackay	docu-drama
2006	CMC	–	short
2007	Mother of Tears	Michael Pierce	a.k.a. Le Terza Madre (Italian title) nominated as Best Actor at the David di Donatello Awards
2008	Broken Lines	Toby
2008	Last Chance Harvey	Josh Hillman
2011	Acting = Intensity + Rebellion	Movie Director	short
2011	2 in a million	Jeff	short
2012	Tad, the Lost Explorer	Max Mordon	voiceover, animated film
2013	Kilimanjaro	Thomas Samuelson	This film was released in 2013 and has been shown at the SXSW, Dallas and Newport Film Festivals
2013	A Little Chaos	Alan Rickman	Monsieur De Barra
2018	Johnny English Strikes Again	Pegasus
2018	Hunter Killer	Captain Forbes

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Coriolanus	Meninius
1995	A View From a Bridge	Rudolpho
1995	Tamburlaine
1996	Lone Star	Cletis
1996	Private Wars	Gately
1996	Unseen Hand	Cisco
1997	Poor Super Man	Matt	nominated as Best Newcomer at the MEN Awards
1998	Chimes at Midnight	Hotspur
1998	Glass Menagerie	Gentleman Caller
1999	King Lear	Edmund
2000	Snake in the Fridge	Randy
2002	Original Sin	Eugene Black
2002	Time and the Conways	Robin Conway
2004	The Importance of Being Earnest	Algernon Moncrieff
2006	Rabbit	Richard	playing the same role in the Brits off-Broadway season at the 59E59 Theatres in New York, June/July 2007
2007	French Without Tears	Lt. Commander Bill Rogers
2007	My Child	Karl	Played the only named character.
2008	Now or Later	Marc
2009/9	Gethsemane	Geoff Benzine
2010	Blood and Gifts	Simon Craig	nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Whatsonstage Awards
2010	The Pride	Peter/Man/Doctor	Drama Desk nomination; won the 2010 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor
2011	Tiger Country	John
2011	Much Ado About Nothing	Don Pedro
2011	13	Mark
2012	Don't Dress for Dinner	Bernard	Sequel to Boeing Boeing.
2013	Bull	Tony	Rehearsed reading in 2010. Crucible Theatre, February 2013, then off-Broadway transfer.
2013	Chan	Various roles	Royal Court reading of Chilean play which took place on 13 September 2013
2013	Death at Whitbridge	Fred Wallis	One off performance at Finborough Theatre Sunday 6 October
2014	Rapture, Blister, Burn	Don Harper	A Hampstead Theatre Production, which ran from 16 January – 22 February 2014
2014	King Charles III	Prime Minister	Almeida Theatre, transferred to the Wyndhams Theatre and then to Broadway.
2015	Bull	Tony	Young Vic Theatre.
2016	An Enemy of the People	Hovstad	Chichester Festival Theatre
2017	Consent	Jake	Royal National Theatre
2019	Shipwreck	James	The Almeida Theatre

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
????	The Nature of Vikings
2004	Selling Immortality
January 2010	Deep Cut	Colonel Nigel Josling	(Radio 4) Re-broadcast in November 2011.
December 2011	Our Country's Good	Robert Sideway	Our Country's Good and The Recruiting Officer shared the same cast when they were broadcast on Radio 3 & 4 in December 2011
December 2011	The Recruiting Officer	Mr Worthy
April 2012	Twelfth Night	Sir Andrew
April 2012	Romeo and Juliet	Benvolio

Misc

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	9/11: The Bronx	Series Narrator
2009	Dr Who Confidential (Planet of the Dead)	(As himself)
2009	Theatre Live

External links

• Adam James at IMDb
• Profile – National Theatre