Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Movies
Front of the Class, You Again, For a Good Time, Call . . ., There's Always Woodstock, You Must Be Joking, The Stanford Prison Experiment, This Is Happening, Mercy, Solving Charlie
TV Shows
The Crazy Ones, Political Animals, Lone Star
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Quote
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[on his film, There's Always Woodstock] I play a young, Jewish doctor... My mom's dream come true.
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The Lone Star experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.
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Regarding being selected to portray Brad Cohen in 2008's Front of the Class, Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) - It mobilized my emotions, which makes it so much easier to act. When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.
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Fact
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Has a dog named Flea.
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His last name means 'cloud' in Dutch.
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James is entirely of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry (his family immigrated from Poland, Russia, and Lithuania). He was raised in Reform Judaism and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
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James is on the Board of Directors of the Brad Cohen Tourette Foundation.
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As a student at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance, James acted in a number of theatrical productions including "The Laramie Project", "You Can't Take It With You", "Arthur Miller Celebration" and the provocative drama, "In Arabia We'd All Be Kings". "The Laramie Project" dealt with the murder of university student Matthew Shepard and the production was picketed by the anti-gay activist, Fred Phelps.
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Considered studying medicine or law prior to becoming a theatre major at the University of Michigan.
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As a student at the University of Michigan and a struggling actor in New York, James worked as an event d.j., performing at parties, weddings and bar mitzvahs.
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James's father, Robert Wolk, owns a ladies' shoe store and James grew up selling women's footwear. As a result, the first thing James notices about a woman is her shoes.