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James Marsters

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James Marsters

Born Aug 20, 1962 · 63 years55 titles 19 movies · 36 TV
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Biography

James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor and musician. Marsters first came to the attention of the general public playing the popular character Spike, a platinum-blond English vampire in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series, Angel from 1997 to 2004. Since then, he has gone on to play other science fiction roles, such as the alien supervillain Brainiac on the Superman-inspired series Smallville, the omnisexual time traveller Captain John Hart in British science-fiction show Torchwood and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's Caprica. In 2007, Marsters appeared in a supporting role in the mainstream movie P.S. I Love You and as the main antagonist, Piccolo, in the 2009 fantasy adventure film Dragonball Evolution. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Marsters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born

Aug 20, 1962

Greenville, California, USA

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Roles across career

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Career timeline

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1990 1 title(s)

1995 1 title(s)

1996 2 title(s)

1997 1 title(s)

1998 1 title(s)

1999 4 title(s)

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2002 2 title(s)

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2004 1 title(s)

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2007 4 title(s)

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2009 6 title(s)

2010 3 title(s)

2011 2 title(s)

2012 2 title(s)

2013 1 title(s)

2015 2 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2017 2 title(s)

2018 2 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)

2021 1 title(s)

2023 2 title(s)

2024 2 title(s)