James Woods
James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather Thomas E. Dixon. He graduated from Pilgrim High School in 1965, near the top of his class. James earned a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; dropping out during his sophomore year in 1967, he then headed off to New York with his fraternity brother Martin Donovan to pursue aspirations to appear on the stage. After appearing in a handful of New York City theater productions, Woods scored his first film role in All the Way Home (1971) and followed that up with meager supporting roles in The Way We Were (1973) and The Choirboys (1977). However, it was Woods' cold-blooded performance as the cop killer in The Onion Field (1979), based on a Joseph Wambaugh novel, that seized the attention of movie-goers to his on-screen power. Woods quickly followed up with another role in another Joseph Wambaugh film adaptation, The Black Marble (1980), as a sleazy and unstable cable-T.V.-station owner in David Cronenberg's mind-bending and prophetic Videodrome (1983), as gangster Max Bercovicz in Sergio Leones mammoth epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and scored a best actor Academy Award nomination as abrasive journalist Richard Boyle in Oliver Stone's gritty and unsettling Salvador (1986). There seemed to be no stopping the rise of this star as he continued to amaze movie-goers with his remarkable versatility and his ability to create such intense, memorable characters. The decade of the 1990s started off strongly with high praise for his role as Roy Cohn in the television production of Citizen Cohn (1992). Woods was equally impressive as sneaky hustler Lester Diamond who cons Sharon Stone in Casino (1995), made a tremendous H.R. Haldeman in Nixon (1995), portrayed serial killer Carl Panzram in Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995), and then as accused civil rights assassin Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Not to be typecast solely as hostile hoodlums, Woods has further expanded his range to encompass providing voice-overs for animated productions including Hercules (1997), Hooves of Fire (1999), and Stuart Little 2 (2002). Woods also appeared in the critically praised The Virgin Suicides (1999), in the coming-of-age movie Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), as a corrupt medico in Any Given Sunday (1999), and in the comedy-horror spoof Scary Movie 2 (2001). A remarkable performer with an incredibly diverse range of acting talent, Woods remains one of Hollywood's outstanding leading men.
James Woollard
James Woollard is known for Light (2024).
James Wootton
James Wootton was born on 15 November 1974. He is a director, known for Sausage Party (2016), All Hail King Julien (2014) and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010).
James Wordsworth
James Wordsworth is an actor and writer, known for The Conspiracy of Dark Falls, The Banana Pirates Sketch Show: Pilot (2014) and Happiness (2019).
James Wotherspoon
James Wotherspoon is an actor, known for First Light (2018), This Life (2015) and Fear Thy Neighbor (2014).
James Wright
James Wright is an actor, known for A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (2019), Dark Web: Descent Into Hell (2021) and The 100 Candles Game (2020).
James Wright
James Wright is an actor, known for Sing-geul ra-i-deo (2017) and Deadly Women (2008).
James Wulf Simmonds
James Wulf Simmonds was a writer and actor, known for Cop Shop (1977), Division 4 (1969) and Homicide (1964). He died on March 21, 2004 in Pacific Pines, Queensland, Australia.
James Wyatt Scott
James Wyatt Scott was born James Deloy Scott II on August 23, 1992 in Jackson Mississippi. He is the son of Angie Scott (an accountant) and James Scott I (salesman). He had an older brother, Jason, who tragically passed from cancer at 41. Wyatt m picked up a camera at the age of 10, filming anything an everything he could and writing nonstop as well. He spent his adolescence attending school in Mississippi and spending his summers with family in the French Quarter of New Orleans. While at Brandon High School, James was a starting Safety on the football team but was most passionate about public speaking and became a writer for the school paper. He held down a job on the weekends standing shirtless in front of a Hollister at the NorthPark Mall in Jackson, Mississippi. He then attended Mississippi State University where he studied acting, writing, journalism, and even architecture. While in his sophomore year at MSU, Wyatt got heavily involved in college theatre and was scouted in a play by a local agent who was in the crowd. He signed the contract the next day, picking up his first representation. Days after getting an agent, Wyatt managed to book a few modeling gigs (including a promo for Hollister) and small parts in local films and commercials filming around Mississippi and New Orleans. After a few gigs, Wyatt decided it was time to commit and move to Los Angeles. Before his boxes were unpacked, Wyatt enrolled in Anthony Meindl's Actors Workshop when it was still a small acting studio on Melrose, before it became internationally prestigious. Wyatt's earliest role was on the Hello Herman (2012) starring Norman Reedus. He bounced around TV gigs here doing days on The Mindy Project (2012) and Anger Management (2012) under the invaluable tutelage of Charlie Sheen. After that Wyatt saw his biggest break yet when he was cast as an evil Nazi in War Pigs directed by Ryan Little and starring Luke Goss Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke Wyatt's keeping up the tradition of toting guns through the action in a project that is under wraps at the moment! Wyatt continues to explore his craft in the pursuit of greatness, keeping in mind that this industry is a marathon, not a race.
James Yaegashi
Son of a Japanese father and American mother, James was born in Yokohama and raised in Yamagata, Japan. He was educated in the Japanese system for the nation's compulsory education and moved to the U.S. after high school. He received an MFA in acting and directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. James moved to NYC in '98 and has worked since as an actor for the stage, TV and film. He has originated many roles on and off Broadway including Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out" (2003 Tony Award for Best Play), "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way" (costarring with Jill Clayburgh and Matthew Morrison), John Guare's "A Few Stout Individuals," Julia Cho's "Durango," and Sarah Ruhl's "The Oldest Boy." His credits also include characters in world-premier stage adaptations of literary classics such as Yunioshi in Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" on Broadway and Toru in Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" at the Edinburgh Int'l Festival and the Singapore Arts Festival. For the stage, he has directed "My Friend Has Come" for the Asian American Writers Workshop, "Dancing with the Bird" at the Japan Society in New York, and is a frequent participant in the 52nd Street Project Playmaking series. He made his filmmaking debut in '11 with "Lefty Loosey Righty Tighty," which won Best Feature in the DIY film competition at Northside Festival, a trendsetter art festival in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. James was the conceiver of the theater benefit "SHINSAI: Theaters for Japan" which took place on March 11, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the disasters in Japan, with participation from nearly 100 theaters, internationally. He also collaborates frequently with Japanese artists, translating award winning contemporary Japanese plays and subtitling major Japanese studio films.
