James D'Arcy
James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is an English actor. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Agent Carter and the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, and murder suspect Lee Ashworth in the second season of the ITV series Broadchurch. D'Arcy also co-starred as Colonel Winnant in Christopher Nolan's war movie Dunkirk (2017).
James D'Arcy | |
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D'Arcy at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival | |
Born | Simon Richard D'Arcy 24 August 1975 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England |
Alma mater | London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1996–present |
Early life
D'Arcy was born on 24 August 1975 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and was raised in Fulham, London with his younger sister, Charlotte, by their mother, Caroline, a nurse. His father died when he was young. He has family in Ireland, England and Scotland, with his English relatives based around the Midlands.
After completing his education at Christ's Hospital in 1991, at age 17, D'Arcy went to Australia for a year. He worked in the drama department of Christ Church Grammar School in Perth, which gave him an interest in acting.[1] When he returned to London he applied for drama school. He did a three-year course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), completing a BA in Acting in 1995.
During his time at LAMDA, he appeared in training productions of Heracles, As You Like It, Wild Honey, The Freedom of the City and Sherlock Holmes.
Career
His first appearances on television were small roles on the television series Silent Witness (1996) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1996), followed by roles in television films such as Nicholas Hawthorne in Ruth Rendell's Bribery and Corruption, Lord Cheshire in The Canterville Ghost, and Jonathan Maybury in The Ice House (all 1997).
In 1997, he played Blifil in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In 1999, he acted in the World War I drama The Trench as well as having a small role in the comedy Guest House Paradiso. From 2001 to the present, he played bigger roles and leading characters in the mini-series Rebel Heart (2001 as Ernie Coyne), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001, Nicholas Nickleby) and Revelation (2001, Jake Martel). In 2002, he portrayed a young Sherlock Holmes in the television film Sherlock: Case of Evil.
In 2003, he played the role of Barnaby Caspian in the film Dot the I, and the character Jim Caddon on the series P.O.W. He also gained wider recognition when he portrayed Lt. Tom Pullings in Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).
He played in horror films Exorcist: The Beginning (2004, Father Francis), An American Haunting (2005, Richard Powell) and Rise: Blood Hunter (2007, Bishop). Apart from that, he appeared on television as Derek Kettering in Agatha Christie's Poirot's The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005), as Jerry Burton in Agatha Christie's Marple: The Moving Finger, as Tiberius Gracchus in the episode "Revolution" of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2007), as Toby Clifford in Fallen Angel (2007) and as Tom Bertram in ITV's production of Mansfield Park (2007).
He worked for BBC radio dramas such as Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Winifred Holtby's The Crowded Street. He played the role of Duncan Atwood in Secret Diary of a Call Girl. In 2011, he played the role of King Edward VIII in W.E., the second film directed by Madonna. In 2012, he played Rufus Sixsmith (young and old) in addition to two other minor roles in the independent film Cloud Atlas, as well as Psycho star Anthony Perkins in Hitchcock.
In 2013, he played the role of Eric Zimit in After the Dark (other title: The Philosophers). In mid-2014, he played the role of Lee Ashworth in Broadchurch series 2, suspected of the murder of the two girls which almost killed Alec Hardy in the search to solve the case mentioned numerous times in Broadchurch series 1. He also appeared as the main villain in the 2014 action comedy Let's Be Cops, as a malevolent Los Angeles crime boss. He starred as a British Army Colonel Winnant in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017).
Between January 2015 and March 2016, D'Arcy was a series regular in the television series Agent Carter, which shares continuity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the series, he played Edwin Jarvis, the loyal butler of Howard Stark. He reprised his role of Edwin Jarvis in Avengers: Endgame, making D'Arcy the first and only actor to have portrayed the same character originally from an MCU TV series into an MCU film.[2]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996 | Silent Witness | Student | TV series (1 episode: "Long Days, Short Nights: Part 1") |
1996 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Franny Roote | TV series (1 episode: "An Advancement of Learning") |
1996 | Brookside | Martin Cathcart | TV series (1 episode: "Things to Sort Out") |
1997 | The Canterville Ghost | Lord Cheshire | TV film |
1997 | Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Nicholas Hawthorne | TV series (2 episodes) |
1997 | The Ice House | Jonathan Maybury | TV film |
1997 | Wilde | Friend | |
1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Nicholas Jenkins | TV miniseries (1 episode: "The Twenties") |
1997 | The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling | Blifil | TV miniseries (5 episodes) |
1998 | Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle | Crap Actor Man 2 | |
1998 | Hiccup | Barry | Short |
1999 | Sunburn | Phil | TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.1") |
1999 | The Trench | Private Colin Daventry | Film |
1999 | Guest House Paradiso | Timothy Barker | |
2001 | Rebel Heart | Ernie Coyne | TV miniseries (4 episodes) |
2001 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Nicholas Nickleby | TV film |
2001 | Revelation | Jake Martell | |
2001 | Dark Realm | Dean | TV series (1 episode: "Party On") |
2002 | Come Together | Jack | TV film |
2002 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Sir Gawain | TV film |
2002 | Sherlock: Case of Evil | Sherlock Holmes | TV film |
2003 | dot the i | Barnaby F. Caspian | |
2003 | P.O.W. | Jim Caddon | TV series (6 episodes) |
2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Lt. Tom Pullings | |
2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Father Francis | |
2005 | An American Haunting | Richard Powell | |
2005 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Derek Kettering | TV series (1 episode: "The Mystery of the Blue Train") |
2006 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Jerry Burton | TV series (1 episode: "The Moving Finger") |
2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Tiberius Gracchus | TV series (1 episode: "Revolution") |
2006 | The Battle for Rome | Tiberius Gracchus | TV film |
2007 | Them | Cain Johnson | TV film |
2007 | Green | Sy | TV film |
2007 | Fallen Angel | Toby Clifford | TV miniseries (1 episode: "The Judgement of Strangers") |
2007 | Mansfield Park | Tom Bertram | TV film |
2007 | Rise: Blood Hunter | Bishop | |
2007 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Guy Thompson | TV series (1 episode: "Know Thine Enemy") |
2008 | Flashbacks of a Fool | Jack Adams | |
2008 | Bonekickers | Captain Roberts | TV series (1 episode: "The Lines of War") |
2008 | The Commander | Jerry | TV film |
2009 | The Eastmens | Dr. Peter Eastmen | TV film |
2009 | Into the Storm | Jock Colville | TV film |
2009 | Virtuality | Dr. Roger Fallon | TV film |
2009–10 | Secret Diary of a Call Girl | Duncan | TV series (8 episodes) |
2010 | Natural Selection | John Henry Wilson | Short |
2011 | The Flight of the Swan | Alexis | |
2011 | Age of Heroes | Ian Fleming | |
2011 | Screwed | Sam | |
2011 | W.E. | King Edward VIII | |
2012 | In Their Skin | Bobby | |
2012 | The Domino Effect | Mark | |
2012 | Cloud Atlas | Rufus Sixsmith, Nurse James, Archivist | |
2012 | Hitchcock | Anthony Perkins | |
2012 | Overnight | Tom | |
2012 | The Making of a Lady | Captain Alec Osborn | |
2014 | Let's Be Cops | Mossi Kasic | |
2014 | After the Dark | Mr. Zimit | |
2014 | Those Who Kill | Thomas Schaeffer | |
2015 | Broadchurch | Lee Ashworth | |
2015 | Jupiter Ascending | Maximilian Jones | |
2015–16 | Agent Carter | Edwin Jarvis | TV series |
2015 | Survivor | Paul Anderson | |
2016 | Guernica | Henry Hillard, author/journalist | Centered around the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War |
2017 | Dunkirk | Colonel Winnant | |
2017 | The Snowman | Filip Becker | |
2018 | Homeland | Anson[3] | Recurring role[4] |
2018 | Das Boot | Sinclair | TV series |
2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Edwin Jarvis | Cameo |
2019 | Life Like | Julian | |
2019 | The Rook | Andrew Bristol | TV miniseries |
2019 | The Hot Zone | Trevor Rhodes | TV miniseries |
2020 | Made in Italy | N/A | Director, post-production |
2020 | LX2048 | Adam Bird | |
TBA | Six Minutes to Midnight | Captain Drey | Post-production |
Awards
- Nominated for the Ian Charleson Award in 2002 (Outstanding Performance in a Classical Role) for Edward II.
References
- "Biography". www.jamesdarcy.net. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- Baysinger, Tim (26 April 2019). "It's Finally All Connected: How 'Avengers: Endgame' Finally Acknowledged the MCU's TV Universe". TheWrap. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- O'Connell, Michael (19 December 2017). "'Homeland' Adds James D'Arcy for Season 7". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- Ausiello, Michael (19 December 2017). "Homeland: James D'Arcy to Play Agent From Carrie's Past in Season 7". TVLine. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
External links
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