Brian d'Arcy James is an American actor and musician. He is known primarily for his Broadway roles, including Shrek in Shrek the Musical, Nick Bottom in Something Rotten!, King George III in Hamilton, and The Baker in Into the Woods. He has received five Tony Award nominations for his work.

Filmography

• 2026Finnegan's Foursome — Teddy Finnegan
• 2025Hamilton — Thanks
• The Copenhagen Test — Peter Moira
• 2025The Family McMullen — Walter
• 2024Millers in Marriage — Dennis
• Dear Edward — Bruce
• 2023Devil's Peak — Bo
• Love & Death — Dr. Fred Fason
• 2023Pain Hustlers — Dr. Lydell
• 2023She Came to Me — Trey Ruffa
• How We Roll — Executive Producer
• 2022Let Me Go (The Right Way) — Dr. Kemp
• 2022The Cathedral — Richard Damrosch
• Centaurworld — The General (voice)
• Hawkeye — Derek Bishop
• 2021West Side Story — Officer Krupke
• 2020Bombshell in Concert
• Devs — Anton
• The Comey Rule — Mark Giuliano
• 2019All These Small Moments — Tom Sheffield
• 2019Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies
• 2019Bombshell — Brian Wilson (uncredited)
• 2019Dark Phoenix — President of the United States
• Evil — Victor LeConte
• 2019The Kitchen — Jimmy Brennan
• 2018First Man — Joseph A. Walker
• 2018Song of Back and Neck — Stone
• 2018Trouble — Logan
• 13 Reasons Why — Andrew Baker
• 20171922 — Sheriff Jones
• Manhunt — Professor Henry Murray
• 2017Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House — Robert Kunkel
• 2017Molly's Game — Bad Brad
• 2017Rebel in the Rye — Giroux
• 2015Sisters — Jerry
• 2015Spotlight — Matt Carroll
• 2015Time Out of Mind — Mark
• 2014Hoke — Henry Hickey
• Mozart in the Jungle — Ludwig van Beethoven
• 2013Admission — Christopher Flynn
• Ironside — Bill Broughton
• 2013Shrek the Musical — Shrek
• 2012Bird in a Box — Walter
• 2012Friends with Kids — Husband in Restaurant
• 2012Game Change — Ted Frank
• 2012One Singular Sensation! Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch
• Smash — Frank Houston
• 2012The Fitzgerald Family Christmas — Skippy
• Person of Interest — Wheeler
• The Big C — Tim
• The Good Wife — Detective Nolan
• 2008Ghost Town — Irish Eddie
• Rescue Me — Dr. Felcher
• 2002G — Lloyd
• 2002Monday Night Mayhem — Al Michaels (uncredited)
• 2000The Endurance — Frank Wild (voice)
• 1999Exiled — Brinkley
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Adam Brubeck
• Dedicated to Morris Burke
• Rabbit, Rabbit

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Those Were the Days — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee