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Stephan James

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Stephan James

Born Dec 16, 1993 · 32 years39 titles 26 movies · 13 TV
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Biography

Stephan James (born December 16, 1993) is a Canadian actor. After starring in a string of television series as a teenager, he rose to prominence upon winning a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for his role as track and field sprinter Jesse Owens in the 2016 film Race. In 2018, he starred in Barry Jenkins' acclaimed drama film If Beale Street Could Talk, based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name. Also that year, he portrayed Walter Cruz in the Amazon series Homecoming, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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ستيفان جيمس · סטפן ג׳יימס · 史帝芬·詹姆斯

Born

Dec 16, 1993

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

38

Acting credits

0

Directing

0

Writing

3

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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1953 1 title(s)

2009 1 title(s)

2010 1 title(s)

2011 3 title(s)

2012 1 title(s)

2013 1 title(s)

2014 9 title(s)

2015 1 title(s)

2016 2 title(s)

2017 1 title(s)

2018 2 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)

2020 1 title(s)

2021 1 title(s)

2022 3 title(s)

2023 1 title(s)

2024 2 title(s)

2025 2 title(s)

2026 3 title(s)

Undated 2 title(s)