James Roday

James Roday Rodriguez, 2013

James Roday Rodriguez (born James David Rodriguez on April 4, 1976 in San Antonio , Texas ) is an American actor , screenwriter and director . He became known as Shawn Spencer on the television series Psych .

Life

He was born James David Rodriguez in San Antonio in 1976. His father, Jaime "Jim" Rodriguez, is of Mexican descent, and his mother, Deborah Collins, has British and Irish ancestry. At the beginning of his acting career, he changed his middle name to Roday in order to use James Roday as his stage name from then on, because producers suggested it to him. Since 2020 he has been called James Roday Rodriguez.

Career

His interest in acting developed during his school days, where he gained his first experience on the stage before studying acting at the New York University Experimental Theater Wing. During his time in New York City, he worked in various theater productions. He was, among other things in the plays Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov , Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare , A Respectable Wedding of Bertolt Brecht , Severity's Mistress by Gordon Dahlquist and Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet to see.

With his college friend Brad Raider he founded the theater group Red Dog Squadron in 2002 after they had produced Shakespeare's Henry V for the 400th anniversary of the play in New York three years earlier . Since then, they have been staging new pieces in Los Angeles and New York at irregular intervals. In addition to the production, Rodriguez is also involved as an actor ( Extinction, 2009/10), author ( Sustenance, 2004) and director ( Sustenance and Greedy, 2011). He was most recently on stage in December 2016 in the play White Rabbit Red Rabbit by the Iranian author Nassim Soleimanpour in New York.

Movie and TV

At first he was seen in short-lived television series and in various film projects, including Kate Fox & Love and A Duke rarely comes alone . He became known for his role as Shawn Spencer in the television series Psych . From 2006 to 2013 he was in a relationship with his series partner Maggie Lawson . In 2002 he began writing screenplays for television and film in addition to acting. Since 2009 he has been behind the camera as a director. In 2012, he and Matt Shakman , Artistic Director of the Black Dahlia Theater, bought the historic El Centro Theater in Los Angeles for renovation.

In 2013, Rodriguez directed the horror comedy Gravy , which he co-wrote with Todd Harthan in 2006. Screenings at various film festivals followed before the film was released on DVD and VOD in 2015 . In 2017 he starred in New York Christmas with Patrick Stewart and Pushing Dead with Danny Glover and again as Shawn Spencer in Psych: The Movie. In 2018 he returned to television as Gary Mendez, one of the main characters on the ABC series A Million Little Things .

Filmography

actor

• 1999: Coming Soon
• 1999: Ryan Caulfield: Year One (TV series)
• 2000: Believe (short film)
• 2000: Six under one roof (Get Real)
• 2001: First Years (TV series)
• 2002: Rolling Kansas
• 2002: Showtime
• 2002: Providence (TV series)
• 2002: Repli-Kate
• 2003–2005: Kate Fox & Love ( Miss Match , TV series)
• 2005: A Duke Seldom Comes Alone (The Dukes of Hazzard)
• 2005: Don't Come Knocking
• 2006: Beer Festival
• 2006-2014: Psych (TV series)
• 2008: Fear Itself (TV series)
• 2009: Gamer
• 2011: Love Bites (TV series)
• 2013: Mr. Payback (short film)
• 2015: Gravy
• 2015: Good Session (TV series, pilot episode)
• 2015: Baby Baby Baby
• 2015: New York Christmas - Christmas miracles do exist! ( Christmas Eve )
• 2015: The Nerd Herd (TV series, pilot episode)
• 2016: Pushing Dead
• 2017: Psych: The Movie (TV movie)
• 2018: Fortune Rookie (web series)
• since 2018: A Million Little Things (TV series)
• 2019: The Buddy Games
• 2020: Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

Director

• 2009-2014: Psych (TV series)
• 2014: Shoot The Moon (TV series, pilot episode)
• 2015: Gravy
• 2015: Battle Creek (TV series)
• 2015: Quest For Truth (TV series, pilot)
• 2015-2017: Rosewood (TV series)
• 2016: Rush Hour (TV series)
• 2017: Blood Drive (TV series)
• 2017: Atlanta Medical ( The Resident , TV series)
• 2019: Into the Dark (TV series, episode 1x06)

Screenwriter

• 2006: Skinwalkers
• 2006-2014: Psych (TV series)
• 2014: Shoot The Moon (TV series, pilot episode)
• 2015: Gravy
• 2015: Quest For Truth (TV series, pilot)
• 2017: Psych: The Movie (TV movie)
• 2019: Into the Dark (TV series, episode 1x06)

Awards

In 2006 he was nominated for a Saturn Award for best series actor . In 2008 he was nominated for an ALMA Award in the Outstanding Actor in a Drama TV Series and in 2009 in Outstanding Actor in a Comedy TV Series .

Web links

• James Roday in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.latina.com/entertainment/tv/exclusive-psych-star-james-roday-explains-why-he-changed-his-latino-last-name-holly
2. ↑ https://tvline.com/2020/07/14/james-roday-rodriguez-name-change-psych-2/
3. ^ Satellite Awards for 2006.
4. ↑ ALMA Awards for 2008.
5. ↑ ALMA Awards for 2009.