James Nesbitt
James Nesbitt was born in 1965 in Northern Ireland. He studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years as a theater actor. James made his feature film debut playing in 1991 in Hear My Song (1991). He then got
his breakthrough TV role playing Adam Williams in the comedy-drama TV series Cold Feet (1998–2003). James' first significant role, though, came when he appeared as the farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the the TV movie Bloody Sunday: with a role different from his previous ones, the film was a turning point in his career that earned him a British Independent Film Award. In 2007, he starred in the dual role of Tom Jackman and Mr Hyde in Steven Moffat's tv drama Jekyll, which earned him a Golden Globe
Award nomination in 2008. James has appeared in several other dramatic roles: in Danny Boyle's Millions (2004), in Match Point (2005) by Woody Allen, and in Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) in which he starred alongside Liam Neeson.
