Stephan James
| Stephan James | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 16, 1993 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Stephan James (born December 16, 1993) is a Canadian actor.
James got his start in television starring for two seasons in the long-running Canadian teen series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
After leaving Degrassi, James played various supporting roles on television, including in How To Be Indie (2011), My Babysitter's a Vampire (2011), The Listener (2012), and The LA Complex (2012), as well as the ABC Family made-for-TV movie 12 Dates of Christmas (2011).
James landed his first major feature film role playing opposite Tatyana Ali and Fefe Dobson in the Canadian film Home Again (2012), in which he played a Jamaican deportee. Although the film received mixed reviews,The Globe and Mail gave James' performance a positive review, calling it "heartbreaking." James garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards for his performance, though he ultimately lost to Serge Kanyinda.
In 2013, James was cast as civil rights activist John Lewis in Ava Duvernay's Martin Luther King, Jr. film Selma (2014), which went on to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. When asked about the proposed "snubs" the film received from the Academy, James said:
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