James Clay
Biography
James Clay is Actor, Director and Producer. James trained at Drama Centre London and has worked consistently in television, theatre and film. His television credits include Life in Squares, Holby City, Vexed, Casualty, Midsomer Murders and Whitechapel. Film credits include 27 Memory Lane and My Week With Marilyn. On stage, James has worked at the Lyric Hammersmith, the Royal and Derngate, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Soho Theatre. Most recently he appeared in two-hander Kicked In the Shitter, at the Hope Theatre. Most recently James filmed a supporting role in four eps of ITV’s The Long Shadow, out on ITVX, and has a guest part in Tim Burton’s Wednesday, available on Netflix.
Known For & Full Filmography8 Titles
Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as Simon DeQuetteville
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Ethan Hanson
Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.
Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • as DC Brandon
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Ken Dwyer
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Jeremy Spenser
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.
Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • as Marcus
Comedy drama following a mismatched pair of police officers who disagree on everything with their partner, from policing to their personal life.
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Maurizio
Millionaire Mason Murphy renovates the haunted Mayhew mansion. He plans a tremendous lunar eclipse viewing party to celebrate his return to his hometown of River Ridge Iowa. At the party, magic runs out of control and the party guests are murdered one by one.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as August Pennyworth
A divorced doctor is gifted a bespoke door that sends him back 25 years in search of the only woman he ever loved.