Adam James was born on 9 September 1972. Adam trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1996. He worked extensively in both TV and Theatre early on in his career, receiving a Best Newcomer nomination at the M.E.N awards for his work at the Royal Exchange and then coming to prominence in 2001 in 'Band of Brothers'. This followed a string of notable guest leads in such popular shows as Extras, Ashes to Ashes, Hustle, Dr. Who and Foyles War. In 2010 he performed in New York in 'The Pride' along side Ben Whishaw and Andrea Riseborough for which he won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role and also received the Drama Desk Nomination. He would return in 2013, this time Off Broadway with the critically acclaimed and Olivier Award winning play "Bull", only to return to Broadway once more in 2016 with the Olivier and Critics Circle award winning play "King Charles III" in which Adam played the Prime Minister, and later received the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, the same year in which he appeared in another Mike Bartlett hit "Dr.Foster", he married the former actress Victoria Shalet. Their first child was born in September 2016, and Adam has an adult daughter from a previous relationship. Adam then continued his collaboration with Mike Bartlett by filming both the much anticipated second series of Dr.Foster alongside a TV film version of King Charles III for BBC2. He has since returned to the stage and London's West End in the Olivier Award Winning "Girl From The North Country" at the Noel Coward Theatre and the hugely critically acclaimed "Consent" having transferred with it from the National Theatre. More recently he reunited with Rupert Goold for the world premiere of Anne Washburn's new play "Shipwreck" at the Almeida Theatre. His most recent Television work includes Julian Fellowes' new period drama "Belgravia" for ITV and Epix in the US (produced by Carnival the team behind Downtown Abbey) and also the hugely successful and critically acclaimed 12 part series "I May Destroy You" for the BBC and HBO, written, performed, produced an co-directed by Michaela Coel.

Filmography

• Young Sherlock — Doctor Maltby
• Murder Before Evensong — Bernard De Floures
• 2025Wicked: For Good — Galinda's Popsicle
• Mr Bates vs The Post Office — Patrick Green QC
• The Day of the Jackal — Jeremy Whitelock
• 2024We Live in Time — Simon Maxson
• 2024Wicked — Galinda's Popsicle
• 2023Choked Up — Robert West
• 2023Out of the Grey — Henry
• The Buccaneers — Colonel St. George
• The Couple Next Door — Ben Gregston
• The Long Shadow — Desmond Wilcox
• 2023The Penitent: A Rational Man — Richard Marlow
• Hotel Portofino — Jack Turner
• The Suspect — Dr. Gerald 'Jack' Owens
• Treason — Patrick Hamilton
• Dalgliesh — Alex Mayer
• Vigil — Lt Commander Mark Prentice
• Belgravia — John Bellasis
• I May Destroy You — Julian
• Life — Neil Baker
• 2019The Kill Team — Hardin
• Celebrity Catchphrase
• Home from Home — Robert Dillon
• 2018Hunter Killer — Captain Forbes
• 2018Johnny English Strikes Again — Pegasus
• You — Elliot Tannenberg
• 20171066: A Year to Conquer England — Harold Godwinson
• 1066: A Year to Conquer England — Harold Godwinson
• 2017Eric, Ernie and Me — Ernest Maxin
• 2017King Charles III — Prime Minister Tristram Evans
• 2017National Theatre Live: Consent — Jake
• 2015A Little Chaos — Monsieur De Barra
• Catherine Tate's Nan — Charles Wilmott
• 2015Coalition — Jeremy Heywood
• Grantchester — James Heath
• The Crimson Field — Colonel Charles Purbright
• The Game — George
• Thicker Than Water — Gavin Leonard
• 2013Churchill's First World War — Winston Churchill
• Endeavour — Kent Finn
• Family Tree — Ronnie Chadwick
• 2013Kilimanjaro — Thomas
• Death in Paradise — Rick Mayhew
• 2011Much Ado About Nothing — Don Pedro
• Law & Order: LA — Max Steinberg
• Vexed — Charlie Brewer
• 2009Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead — DI McMillan
• 2009Sleep with Me — MacDara
• 2009The Execution of Gary Glitter — John Carter QC
• Ashes to Ashes — Edward Markham
• Bonekickers
• 2008Consuming Passion — Mick
• Harley Street
• 2008Last Chance Harvey — Josh Hillman
• Wired — Simon
• Lewis — Ethan Croft
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl — Matt
• Sold
• 2007The Mother of Tears — Michael Pierce
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire — Titus
• Hotel Babylon
• 2006Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart — Rupert
• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard — Mark McCaffrey
• Love Soup
• Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono — William Ryder
• 2004England Expects — Daniel
• Hustle — Carlton Wood
• 2003Reversals — Dr. Glen Morrow
• 2003Three Blind Mice — 1st Exec (uncredited)
• Foyle's War — Major Wesker
• As If — Richard
• Band of Brothers — Cleveland O. Petty
• 2001Murder on the Orient Express — William MacQueen
• 2001The Lost Battalion — Capt. Nelson Holderman
• Waking the Dead — Michael Leonard
• 1997Sharpe: The Legend — Carline
• 1996Sharpe's Regiment — Captain Carline
• Sharpe — Cpt. Philip Carline
• A Touch of Frost — Gregory Salmond

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Celebrity Mastermind — Self - Contestant