Adam James
Acting • Born 1972-09-09
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.
Filmography
79 credits
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 2001
William MacQueen
The Lost Battalion
Movie • 2001
Capt. Nelson Holderman
The Penitent: A Rational Man
Movie • 2023
Richard Marlow
The Mother of Tears
Movie • 2007
Michael Pierce
Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
Movie • 2006
Rupert
Consuming Passion
Movie • 2008
Mick
England Expects
Movie • 2004
Daniel
Out of the Grey
Movie • 2023
Henry
Last Chance Harvey
Movie • 2008
Josh Hillman
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
Movie • 2009
DI McMillan
The Execution of Gary Glitter
Movie • 2009
John Carter QC
A Little Chaos
Movie • 2015
Monsieur De Barra
Choked Up
Movie • 2023
Robert West
Churchill's First World War
Movie • 2013
Winston Churchill
Sharpe: The Legend
Movie • 1997
Carline
We Live in Time
Movie • 2024
Simon Maxson
Sleep With Me
Movie • 2009
MacDara
Reversals
Movie • 2003
Dr. Glen Morrow
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 2011
Don Pedro
King Charles III
Movie • 2017
Prime Minister Tristram Evans
1066: A Year to Conquer England
Movie • 2017
Harold Godwinson
Eric, Ernie and Me
Movie • 2017
Ernest Maxin
Sharpe's Regiment
Movie • 1996
Captain Carline
Johnny English Strikes Again
Movie • 2018
Pegasus
Hunter Killer
Movie • 2018
Captain Forbes
National Theatre Live: Consent
Movie • 2017
Jake
The Kill Team
Movie • 2019
Hardin
Wicked
Movie • 2024
Galinda's Popsicle
Three Blind Mice
Movie • 2003
1st Exec (uncredited)
Wicked: For Good
Movie • 2025
Galinda's Popsicle
Coalition
Movie • 2015
Jeremy Heywood
Kilimanjaro
Movie • 2013
Thomas
Band of Brothers
TV • 2001
Cleveland O. Petty
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
TV • 2007
Matt
Thicker Than Water
TV • 2014
Gavin Leonard
Vigil
TV • 2021
Lt Commander Mark Prentice
Vexed
TV • 2010
Charlie Brewer
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
TV • 2006
Mark McCaffrey
As If
TV • 2001
Richard
Wired
TV • 2008
Simon
Hustle
TV • 2004
Carlton Wood
Hotel Babylon
TV • 2006
Love Soup
TV • 2005
Lewis
TV • 2007
Ethan Croft
Sold
TV • 2007
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Michael Leonard
Bonekickers
TV • 2008
Home from Home
TV • 2018
Robert Dillon
Endeavour
TV • 2013
Kent Finn
Catherine Tate's Nan
TV • 2015
Charles Wilmott
Harley Street
TV • 2008
Law & Order: LA
TV • 2010
Max Steinberg
The Suspect
TV • 2022
Dr. Gerald 'Jack' Owens
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
TV • 2024
Patrick Green QC
The Long Shadow
TV • 2023
Desmond Wilcox
1066: A Year to Conquer England
TV • 2017
Harold Godwinson
Life
TV • 2020
Neil Baker
Treason
TV • 2022
Patrick Hamilton
Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono
TV • 2005
William Ryder
Ashes to Ashes
TV • 2008
Edward Markham
You
TV • 2018
Elliot Tannenberg
Belgravia
TV • 2020
John Bellasis
Celebrity Catchphrase
TV • 2018
I May Destroy You
TV • 2020
Julian
The Game
TV • 2014
George
The Buccaneers
TV • 2023
Colonel St. George
Hotel Portofino
TV • 2022
Jack Turner
The Day of the Jackal
TV • 2024
Jeremy Whitelock
Celebrity Mastermind
TV • 2003
Self - Contestant
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Rick Mayhew
Grantchester
TV • 2014
James Heath
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV • 2006
Titus
Sharpe
TV • 1993
Cpt. Philip Carline
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Major Wesker
Family Tree
TV • 2013
Ronnie Chadwick
The Couple Next Door
TV • 2023
Ben Gregston
Dalgliesh
TV • 2021
Alex Mayer
Murder Before Evensong
TV • 2025
Bernard De Floures
The Crimson Field
TV • 2014
Colonel Charles Purbright