Alec James

Education

About me

I am a versatile character actor and am at ease with serious drama and comedy alike. I am pleasant to work with and happy to take direction. I have recently been working on a number of tv and film productions as a Supporting/Background Artiste, and featured in many. I prefer to work in tv & film and would like to use my experience and qualifications to advance into more featured roles. I am also a very competent photographer having held a number of exhibitions of my work
Additional skills:
Excellent with accents
Additional information:
Am able to play character from gent to down and out.

I have been involved with a variety of Stage plays and events, both amateur and professional for most of my life. In recent years I have hosted and stage-managed music and comedy shows. My training includes BTEC in all aspects of Performing Arts and also LAMDA exams. I am a competent photographer having held a number of exhibitions. I have worked as a sound and lighting technician and designed & built stage sets and props. I am currently working as a supporting artist and have been featured in a number of productions.
The LAMDA acting qualifications covered a variety of roles which included Shylock (Merchant of Venice), Bob (The Private Ear), Buscher (The Conquest of the South Pole), The Ragpicker (The Mad Woman of Chailott) and Arthur (Confusions). Stage performances include both Gordon & Bernard (Last Tango in Little Grimley), King Rat (Dick Wittington), Harold Twine (Rookery Nook) and Roger (Grease) as well as a number of other roles. I have also hosted 2 local comedy clubs over a period of 8 years.

Over the past 3 years I have been working multiple roles as a Support/Background Artist in film and T.V. Theses include Da Vinci’s Demons series 2 & 3, New Worlds, E4 Refresh Campaign, Casualty, Gwaith Cartref, Zombie Apocalypse Promo, Galavant Pilot, Poldark series 1 & 2, Stella series 2, 3 ,4 & 5, Pobol y Cwm, Under Milk Wood, The Rezort, The Hollow Crown, The Last Days of Charles I & Guy Fawkes, Golden Years, You, Me & The Apocalypse, Me Before You & The Collection.

Features include Head Stand In for Jason Watkins (Haircut Scene, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies), Patient (Stella), Baker (The Bastard Executioner), Noggin (Dr Who), Dancing & Singing (The Living & The Dead), Beggar (Galavant series2) & Bar Customer (Nightingale).

Student Film Roles: Solicitor in ‘Shoppers’,
Henry in ‘3 minute Pilot’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vz0b1EKGPk
Henry in film short, ‘Henry’ http://vimeo.com/93507441,
Corpse in Film Short ‘Jar of Hearts’, Surgeon in ‘An Apple a Day’ http://youtu.be/o4s8nGMVIn0.

Feature Film Cast Roles: Milkman Zombie in Granny of the Dead http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2516500/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Henry (Cart Driver & Minor Hero) in Viking Legacy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5555554/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

License & Passport

Skills

Accents/Dialects	American - General, Cornish, English - Cockney, English - General, English - London, English - Southwest England, English - Yorkshire & Humber, French (Standard International), New Zealand/Kiwi, Southern American, US South (Deep South, Dixie, Delta), Welsh, Welsh (Western)