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James Frain

Milestones

  • Birthplace: Leeds, England
  • Birthday: March 14, 1968
  • 2002

    Acted on stage in London in "King Lear"

  • 2002

    Co-starred in the remake of "The Count of Monte Cristo"

  • 2000

    Cast an a American who befriends a fellow prisoner (Ben Affleck) in John Frankenheimer's drama "Reindeer Games"

  • 2000

    Returned to London stage as a gay man in "Other People"

  • 1999

    Appeared as Bassanius in Julie Taymor's "Titus"

  • 1999

    Portrayed Ralph Fiennes' brother in "Sunshine"; released in USA in 2000

  • 1999

    Portrayed the legendary French filmmaker in the biopic "Vigo - Passion for Life"

  • 1998

    Delivered a fine turn as the ambiguous Spanish ambassador to the Tudor court in "Elizabeth"

  • 1998

    Reteamed with Watson, playing Argentine pianist Daniel Barenbohm to her cellist Jacqueline Du Pre in the biopic "Hilary and Jackie"

  • 1997

    Initial screen teaming with Emily Watson in "The Mill on the Floss"; played Philip Wakem, the childhood sweetheart of Watson's Maggie Tulliver; aired in the USA on PBS' "Mobil Masterpiece Theatre"

  • 1996

    Played the leading Russian assassin in the acclaimed HBO movie "Rasputin"

  • 1995

    Breakthrough TV role as an abusive aristocrat in the series "The Buccaneers" (aired on PBS in the USA)

  • 1995

    Played a single-minded leader of a paramilitary group of Protestants in Northern Island in "Nothing Personal"

  • 1993

    Early TV credit as a "rent boy" in "Prime Suspect 3" (aired on PBS in the USA)

  • 1993

    Feature acting debut as Peter Whistler, an Oxford student who clashes with C S Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), in "Shadowlands"

  • 1993

    Just before graduating from drama school, was cast in first film role

  • 1990

    Accepted at Central School of Speech and Drama

  • After secondary school, worked odd jobs and traveled before enrolling as a theater student at the University of East Anglia in 1987

  • As a child, decided to be an actor

  • Began writing, directing and acting in amateur productions as a teenager

  • Raised in Essex

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