Full name: James Wesley Marsters
Birthday: August 20, 1962

James Marsters is an AMERICAN actor, singer and songwriter and first found international fame playing punk-goth Brit vampire Spike in the critically acclaimed American TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the equally popular spin-off Angel.

Film roles include romantic love story P.S. I Love You with Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler and Kathy Bates , USA Original true-crime film Cool Money, independent thriller Shadow Puppets, Winding Roads, The House On Haunted Hill and Chance with Buffy co-star Amber Benson. He been filming a live action film of Dragon Ball and Moonshot a docu-drama for ITV and the History Channel. James has recently finished Alien Western and is in the process of filming an episode of NUMB3RS. James has done a voice over for Clone wars and also recently completed a voice over for the animated series Marvel Super Hero Squad playing the character of Mr Fantastic.

James was born in Greenville but grew up in Modesto and has had a reacurring role as Brainiac in TV's Smallville and guest starred in Without A Trace, Millennium, Andromeda, The Mountain, Saving Grace and British Sci-Fi drama Torchwood

James's voiceover talents can be found portraying Lex Luthor on the DVD release of Superman: Doomsday and he continues to read for the very popular Dresden Files books on tape series.

He has received numerous nominations and awards, including the Spacey Award, the Saturn Award, the Cinescape Face of the Future Award, the Golden Satellite Award, and the Teen Choice Award.

James attended New York's prestigious Juilliard, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and the American Conservatory Theatre and spent 10 years doing stage work before moving to LA to work in film and television.

He worked in Chicago's famous Goodman Theater and also set-up and ran companies in Chicago and Seattle. One of his early television appearances was as a hotel bellhop in the television series Northern Exposure.

James is also a singer songwriter and has enjoyed sell-out concerts in America, Canada, Australia and Europe. He brought out his first solo album, Civilized Man, in 2005 and has followed it up with Like A Waterfall.

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