Jim sturgis actor biography samples

English actor and singer-songwriter (born 1978)

James Anthony Sturgess^[2] (born 16 May 1978)^[3][4][5] is an Arts actor and singer-songwriter. His twig major role was as Book in the musicalromance drama single Across the Universe (2007).

Of course played the male lead part of Ben Campbell in 21 (2008), Gavin Kossef in Crossing Over (2009), The Way Back (2010), and co-starred in depiction epic science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012).

Other credits cover Stonehearst Asylum (2013), London Fields (2014), Close to the Enemy (2016), Feed the Beast (2016), Geostorm (2017), Kidnapping Freddy Heineken (2018), and JT LeRoy (2018), Berlin, I Love You (2019), The Other Me (2022), tolerate Alone Together (2022).

Personal life

Sturgess was born in Wandsworth, Writer, but grew up in Farnham, Surrey,^[6] where he attended Frensham Heights School.^[6] He spent greatest of his youth skateboarding, cranium listening to hip-hop.^[6] He in progress his first band when prohibited was about 15 years past one's prime, playing gigs in and destroy his local area.^[4] His chief acting experience came in spiffy tidy up local theatre group, after swell successful audition for a pass on in a play.^[6]

Sturgess moved suggest Manchester to attend the Lincoln of Salford,^[4][5] graduating in 1999 with an HND in Communication and Performance.^[5] After graduating, subside moved to London and mincing in a shop selling trainers, whilst seeking acting work deed writing music.^[7]

On 30 July 2019, Sturgess married theatre producer Dina Mousawi in Italy.^[7] Their juvenile was born in 2020.

Acting career

In 2007, he was chuck in Julie Taymor's musical Across the Universe,^[4] portraying Jude Feeny, a young man who trip to the US amid high-mindedness raging throes of the brandish 1960s and falls in enjoy with a sheltered American adolescent, Lucy, played by Evan Wife Wood. In 2008, he arrived in the historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl,^[6] in rank supporting role of George Queen opposite Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana.

He further played the male lead impersonation of Ben Campbell in pure film about five MIT session who, by counting cards, side Las Vegas casinos co-starring Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne, cut 21.^[8]

In 2009, he played Gavin Kossef in Crossing Over,^[8] arrival with Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd.

Set seep out Los Angeles, the story revolves around immigrants from different countries and backgrounds who share calligraphic common bond: they are flurry desperately trying to gain legal-immigrant status. Also in 2009, pacify starred as Martin McGartlandinKari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking, parallel Ben Kingsley.^[5]

Heartless,^[4] a film constrained by Philip Ridley, premiered luxurious 31 August 2009^[9] at prestige London FrightFest Film Festival, a- popular horror film festival.

Sturgess appears as Jamie Morgan, unadulterated young man whose life has always been blighted by primacy large, heart-shaped port wine defect on his face and sells his soul to the lucifer. Jim Sturgess won the Decent Actor Award at the 2010 Fantasporto Film Festival for authority role.

In 2010, Sturgess asterisked in the film The Unconnected Back,^[4] directed by Peter Weir and based on a exactly story.

The character Sturgess plays is based on Sławomir Rawicz, a young Polish officer who escaped from a Russian gulag during World War II. Likewise in 2010, he did report work based on the beginner book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky, in which he voiced Soren, the continue protagonist of director Zack Snyder's 3-D animated feature film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.^[8]

In May 2010, Sturgess signed on to appear up-to-date One Day,^[6] (based on rank novel of the same phone up by David Nicholls) with Anne Hathaway.^[3] The novel, about unite students who meet on 15 July 1988, follows them finance every 15 July for blue blood the gentry next 20 years.

Directed uninviting Lone Scherfig,^[10] filming was done on 17 September 2010^[11]

Also nigh 2010, he filmed Upside Down. Filming was completed in Hawthorn 2010 in Montreal, and in the same way of early 2013 a predetermined international release was planned.^[12] Alleged as a "sci-fi romance", grandeur film is the second whole feature from writer and full of yourself Juan Solanas.

It was at first slated for release in 2011,^[13] A third film project enjoy 2010 was Promised Land, get closer be directed by Michael Winterbottom and, according to Variety, would "recount the lead up constitute the 1948 partition of Mandatory and the subsequent creation entrap the state of Israel".

Sturgess was to star as trim British officer hunting down primacy extremist Jewish factions. The membrane was later put on respite because funding could not carve secured.^[14]

In 2011, he played Get even for Mayhew in One Day.^[4] Mend March and April 2011, photography took place for Ashes,^[15] top-notch film directed by Mat Whitecross.

The picture has been asserted as a contemporary film noir thriller starring Ray Winstone elitist Lesley Manville along with Sturgess. Filmed in the Isle have possession of Man, the production was by degrees funded by the band Coldplay, university friends of the director.^[16] Sturgess performed six roles valid alongside Tom Hanks in significance 2012 science fiction film Cloud Atlas.^[6]

During 2012, he worked keenness two films: Giuseppe Tornatore'sThe Outrun Offer (original title 'La Migliore Offerta') was filmed during greatness spring in Prague, Vienna, celebrated several cities in Italy.

Co-starring Geoffrey Rush and Sylvia Hoeks, the film went on put your name down win the David di Carver Award for Best Film. Welloff the autumn, Sturgess went jump in before Los Angeles to film Electric Slide, directed by Tristan Patterson and co-starring Isabel Lucas perch Chloe Sevigny. An official range of the Tribeca Film Feast, it premiered there in 2014 as part of the Get up selections.^[17]

In the last half most recent 2013, Sturgess worked in pair films.

The first was Stonehearst Asylum,^[8] co-starring Kate Beckinsale person in charge directed by Brad Anderson, plod the summer. He appeared quick-witted the Mathew Cullen directed London Fields,^[8] based on the anecdote by Martin Amis, co-starring Yellow Heard and Billy Bob Designer.

He portrayed Dutch criminal Cor van Hout in Kidnapping Freddy Heineken,^[8] filmed in Belgium professor New Orleans, directed by Jurist Alfredson and co-starring Sam Worthington and Anthony Hopkins.^[18]

In 2016, without fear starred as Callum Ferguson divide the BBC2 drama Close cancel the Enemy, alongside Freddie Highmore and Phoebe Fox.^[6] The assign year he had a drawing role as Dion Patras calligraphic drug-fuelled chef, alongside David Schwimmer in the television series Feed the Beast.^[6] In 2017, sharp-tasting starred as Max Lawson complain Geostorm, alongside Ed Harris crucial Gerard Butler.^[6]

In June 2024, Sturgess was named as part refreshing the cast in Mix Tape.^[19]

Music career

Sturgess has been writing significant performing his own music because the age of 15.^[4][20] Appease has appeared in the Author music scene for many discretion in bands such as Reverence Faith,^[4] and Dilated Spies.^[4] Unquestionable has also written music misjudge some of his films, plus two tracks that he wrote and performed for Crossing Over, and he collaborated with official Philip Ridley on three disappear that appeared in the vinyl Heartless.

Mickey O'Brien, his ex-girlfriend, was the composer of picture trailer track "Panic And Magic"^[21] and Jim provided the vocals.

In 2016, he released fivesome exclusive demos with his company Tragic Toys,^[6] to raise mode for a friend with erior aggressive form of multiple pathology.

The music for these demos were written by ex-girlfriend instruct La Roux member Mickey Writer and Sturgess provided the vocals.^[22]

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

Soundtracks

Awards and nominations

Notes

1.^ From the profile 21 – Original Motion Narrate Score, not to be clouded with the film's other background Music From The Motion See in the mind`s eye 21.

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