Stephan James

Stephan James (2016)

Stephan James (born December 16, 1993 in Toronto ) is a Canadian film actor .

Career

James started his television career in 2010 in a supporting role in the television film My Babysitter is a Vampire and through two appearances in the Canadian teen comedy Degrassi: The Next Generation . He received his first major role in a feature film in 2012 in the Canadian drama Home Again , in which he played a deported Jamaican. In the later as Best Picture Oscar-nominated film drama Selma James in 2014 played the civil rights activist John Lewis . He received another leading role in the biopic Time for Legends , in which he embodies the protagonist Jesse Owens . Another starring James received in the film If Beale Street Could Talk by Barry Jenkins .

Together with his brother Shamier Anderson , he founded the "BLACK Ball", a series of events that took place in Los Angeles in 2019 during the Toronto Film Festival and during the Oscars season.

Filmography (selection)

2010: My Babysitter's a Vampire - The Movie ( My Babysitter's a Vampire , TV movie)
2011–2012: Degrassi: The Next Generation (TV series, 8 episodes)
2012: Home Again
2014: Perfect Sisters
2014: Pride of Lions
2014: When the Game Stands Tall
2014: Selma
2015: Lost After Dark
2015: Across the Line
2016: Time for Legends (Race)
2017: Shots Fired (TV series, 10 episodes)
2018: If Beale Street Could Talk
2018–2020: Homecoming (TV series, 17 episodes)
2019: 21 bridges
2020: #FreeRayshawn (TV series, 15 episodes)