Stephan James
Acting Born Dec 16, 1993 Toronto, Ontario, Canada 24 credits
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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Full filmography
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
- War Machine (2026) as 7
- The Listener (2009) as Ibrahim Ayim
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015) as Self
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- Surface (2022) as Thomas Baden
- Homecoming (2018) as Walter Cruz
- My Babysitter's a Vampire (2011) as Jock #1
- Beacon 23 (2023) as Halan Kai Nielsen
- Shots Fired (2017) as Preston Terry
- 21 Bridges (2019) as Michael Trujillo
- Babes (2024) as Claude
- Selma (2014) as John Lewis
- Night Always Comes (2025) as Cody
- Race (2016) as Jesse Owens
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) as Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt
- The Piano Lesson (2024) as Boy Charles
- When the Game Stands Tall (2014) as T.K. Kelly
- #FreeRayshawn (2020) as Rayshawn
- My Babysitter's a Vampire (2010) as Jock
- Clue (2011) as Dmitri Grant
- I Play Rocky (2026) as Carl Weathers
- National Champions (2021) as LeMarcus James
- Perfect Sisters (2014) as Donny