1. James D'Arcy was born on Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975 and is an English actor and film director.
17 Facts About James D'Arcy
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James D'Arcy 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.
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Simon James D'Arcy was born on 24 August 1975 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
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James D'Arcy's father Richard died when he was a child.
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James D'Arcy raised D'Arcy and his sister Charlotte in Fulham, London.
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In 1991, after graduating from the West Sussex school Christ's Hospital, James D'Arcy went to Australia, where he worked in the drama department of a school in Perth for one year.
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James D'Arcy gained wider recognition when he portrayed 1st Lt.
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James D'Arcy appeared in the horror films Exorcist: The Beginning, An American Haunting and Rise: Blood Hunter.
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James D'Arcy appeared on television as Derek Kettering in Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train, as Jerry Burton in Agatha Christie's Marple: The Moving Finger, as Tiberius Gracchus in the Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode "Revolution", as Toby Clifford in Fallen Angel and as Tom Bertram in ITV's production of Mansfield Park.
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James D'Arcy lent his voice to BBC radio dramas such as Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Winifred Holtby's The Crowded Street.
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James D'Arcy played the role of Duncan Atwood in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
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James D'Arcy appeared as the main villain in the 2014 action comedy Let's Be Cops, as a malevolent Los Angeles crime boss.
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James D'Arcy starred as a British Army Colonel Winnant in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.
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Between January 2015 and March 2016 James D'Arcy was a series regular in the television series Agent Carter.
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James D'Arcy reprised his role of Edwin Jarvis in Avengers: Endgame, making D'Arcy the first to have portrayed the same character originally from an MCU TV series into an MCU film.
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James D'Arcy made his directorial debut with Made in Italy of 2020.
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James D'Arcy dated Lucy Punch for about three years after they met during filming of the TV movie Come Together in 2002.