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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 .
Stephan James. Actor: Race. Stephan James has quickly established himself as an incredibly dynamic lead talent in both film and television. James, a native of Canada, has held the honor of portraying several real-life figures in African American history.
- January 1, 1
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- Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stephan James. Actor: Race. Stephan James has quickly established himself as an incredibly dynamic lead talent in both film and television. James, a native of Canada, has held the honor of portraying several real-life figures in African American history. He starred as Olympics hero Jesse Owens in Race, directed by Stephen Hopkins, for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination. In 2019 ...
- December 16, 1993
Dec 14, 2018 · Photo courtesy of Instagram. Over the past year, Scarborough-born actor Stephan James has morphed from obscure Toronto actor into rising Hollywood star. Now, he’s taking on his biggest role yet ...
Dec 16, 1993 · 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 ...
Feb 22, 2019 · Stephan James is best known for films—like Race, Selma, and Barry Jenkins’s recent Moonlight follow-up If Beale Street Could Talk—that tackle heady issues, from racism and the civil rights movement to PTSD and wrongful incarceration, but the Canadian actor doesn’t like to think of himself as an activist. He is, first and foremost, an artist, and if his race helped define the course of ...
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Feb 4, 2019 · For the follow-up to Oscar-winning 'Moonlight', director Barry Jenkins turned to James Baldwin’s 1974 novel 'If Beale Street Could Talk'. Its star Stephan James tells Adrian Lobb why it’s another game-changer. When Moonlight, adapted and directed by Barry Jenkins, became first a critical smash, then a slow-burn, word-of-mouth box office hit ...