1. Zachary "Zach" James was born on December 7,1981 and is an American actor and singer.
18 Facts About Zachary James
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Zachary James is known for originating the roles of Lurch in The Addams Family on Broadway, the role of Abraham Lincoln in Philip Glass's opera The Perfect American, and Amenhotep III in the Olivier and Grammy Award-winning production of Akhnaten.
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Zachary James has sung with some of the world's top opera companies and orchestras including English National Opera, LA Opera, Teatro Real, The New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia and NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2019 in Akhnaten.
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Zachary James is the host and creator of the comedy talkshow, What Happened Was.
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Zachary James was born in Providence, Rhode Island and grew up in Spring Hill, Florida.
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Zachary James, inspired by actor Nathan Lane, majored in musical theatre at Ithaca College and later moved to New York City.
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Zachary James created the role of Lurch in the Broadway musical production of The Addams Family.
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Zachary James appeared in the Original Broadway Cast of Coram Boy and in the original cast of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of South Pacific.
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Zachary James reprised the role in the production's revivals at the Los Angeles Opera, English National Opera in 2019 and the Metropolitan Opera in November and December 2019.
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Zachary James played the role of John Claggart in Billy Budd at Des Moines Metro Opera in 2017.
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Zachary James appeared in his own one man opera, Imbecile d' Amour, that played in New York in 2008, in Chicago in late 2009, and again in New York in 2010 and 2011.
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In 2008, Zachary James made a cameo appearance as the character "Carl" in the 30 Rock episode "Gavin Volure".
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Zachary James's solo show, Zachary James on Broadway, about his time working on Broadway and living in New York has been seen in Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania.
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Zachary James won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for his work on Philip Glass' Akhnaten.
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Zachary James is an out gay artist and has been featured in LGBTQ publications and interviews and was named one of the 30 most influential LGBTQIA+ artists in Opera by OperaWire.
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Zachary James is a life-long advocate for animal rights and volunteers with the anti-fur trade fox sanctuary, Pawsitive Beginnings, in Key Largo, Florida, He narrated their mini documentary, Chasing Fur, in 2020.
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Zachary James lived and traveled with his rescued miniature pinscher, Sir Arthur "Artie" Seymour Sullivan, named after the British composer of The Pirates of Penzance for eleven years until Artie's death in 2023.
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Zachary James has been sober since November, 2011, and credits sobriety as a key factor of his success.