Early life

James D'Arcy was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on 24 August 1975, and was raised in Fulham, London with his younger sister, Charlotte, by their mother, Caroline (a nurse). His father died when he was young. He has family in Ireland, England and Scotland. Most English relatives are based around the Midlands. After completing his education at Christ's Hospital in 1991, he went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth, which gave him an interest in acting. When he returned to London he applied for drama school. He did a three-year course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, completing a BA in Acting in 1995.

During his time at LAMDA, he appeared in training productions of Heracles, As You Like It, Wild Honey, The Freedom of the City and Sherlock Holmes. On leaving drama school: "It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor."

Career

His first appearances on television were small roles on the television series Silent Witness (1996) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1996), followed by roles in television films such as Nicholas Hawthorne in Ruth Rendell's Bribery and Corruption (1997), Lord Cheshire in The Canterville Ghost (1997) and Jonathan Maybury in The Ice House (1997). In 1997, he furthermore played Blifil in the miniseries The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In 1999, he acted in the World War I drama The Trench as well as having a small role in the comedy Guest House Paradiso.

From 2001 to the present, D’Arcy played bigger roles and leading characters in the mini-series Rebel Heart (2001, Ernie Coyne), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001, Nicholas Nickleby) and Revelation (2001, Jake Martel). In 2002, he portrayed a young Sherlock Holmes in the television film Sherlock: Case of Evil. In 2003, he played the role of Barnaby Caspian in the film Dot the I, and the character Jim Caddon on the series P.O.W. He also gained wider recognition when he portrayed Lt. Tom Pullings in Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).

He played in horror films Exorcist: The Beginning (2004, Father Francis), An American Haunting (2005, Richard Powell) and Rise: Blood Hunter (2007, Bishop). Apart from that, he appeared on television as Derek Kettering in the Agatha Christie's Poirot episode The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005), as Jerry Burton in Agatha Christie's Marple: The Moving Finger, as Tiberius Gracchus in the episode "Revolution" of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2007), as Toby Clifford in Fallen Angel (2007) and as Tom Bertram in ITV's production of Mansfield Park (2007).

He has also worked for BBC radio dramas such as Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Winifred Holtby's The Crowded Street. He played the role of Duncan Atwood in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

In 2011, he played the role of King Edward VIII in W.E., the second film directed by Madonna. In 2012, he played Rufus Sixsmith (young and old) in addition to two other minor roles in the independent film Cloud Atlas, as well as Psycho star Anthony Perkins in Hitchcock.

In 2013, he played the role of Eric Zimit in After the Dark (other title: The Philosophers). He plays a brilliant philosophy professor who does an extensive thought experiment on a global apocalypse with his senior students at their last day in college.

In mid-2014, he played the role of Lee Ashworth in Broadchurch series 2, suspected of the murder of the two girls that almost killed David Tennant in the search to solve the case mentioned numerous times in Broadchurch series 1. He also appeared as the main villain in the 2014 action comedy Let's Be Cops, as a malevolent L.A. crime boss.

Between January 2015 and March 2016, D'Arcy was a series regular in the ABC and Marvel television series Agent Carter, which shares continuity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the series, he played Edwin Jarvis, the loyal butler of Howard Stark.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Silent Witness	Student	TV series (1 episode: "Long Days, Short Nights: Part 1")
1996	Dalziel and Pascoe	Franny Roote	TV series (1 episode: "An Advancement of Learning")
1996	Brookside	Martin Cathcart	TV series (1 episode: "Things to Sort Out")
1997	Canterville Ghost, TheThe Canterville Ghost	Lord Cheshire	TV film
1997	Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Nicholas Hawthorne	TV series (2 episodes)
1997	Ice House, TheThe Ice House	Jonathan Maybury	TV film
1997	Wilde	Friend
1997	Dance to the Music of Time, AA Dance to the Music of Time	Nicholas Jenkins	TV miniseries (1 episode: "The Twenties")
1997	History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, TheThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	Blifil	TV miniseries (5 episodes)
1998	Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle	Crap Actor Man 2
1998	Hiccup	Barry	short
1999	Sunburn	Phil	TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.1")
1999	The Trench		Film
1999	Guest House Paradiso	Timothy Barker
2001	Rebel Heart	Ernie Coyne	TV miniseries (4 episodes)
2001	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Nicholas Nickleby	TV film
2001	Revelation	Jake Martell
2001	Dark Realm	Dean	TV series (1 episode: "Party On")
2002	Come Together	Jack	TV film
2002	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Sir Gawain	TV film
2002	Sherlock: Case of Evil	Sherlock Holmes	TV film
2003	dot the i	Barnaby F. Caspian
2003	P.O.W	Jim Caddon	TV series (6 episodes)
2003	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Lt. Tom Pullings
2004	Exorcist: The Beginning	Father Francis
2005	American Haunting, AnAn American Haunting	Richard Powell
2005	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Derek Kettering	TV series (1 episode: "The Mystery of the Blue Train")
2006	Agatha Christie's Marple	Jerry Burton	TV series (1 episode: "The Moving Finger")
2006	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Tiberius Gracchus	TV series (1 episode: "Revolution")
2006	Battle for Rome, TheThe Battle for Rome	Tiberius Gracchus	TV film
2007	Them	Cain Johnson	TV film
2007	Green	Sy	TV film
2007	Fallen Angel	Toby Clifford	TV miniseries (1 episode: "The Judgement of Strangers")
2007	Mansfield Park	Tom Bertram	TV film
2007	Rise	Bishop
2007	Inspector Lynley Mysteries, TheThe Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Guy Thompson	TV series (1 episode: "Know Thine Enemy")
2008	Flashbacks of a Fool	Jack Adams
2008	Bonekickers	Captain Roberts	TV series (1 episode: "The Lines of War")
2008	Commander, TheThe Commander	Jerry	TV film
2009	Eastmens, TheThe Eastmens	Dr. Peter Eastmen	TV film
2009	Into the Storm	Jock Colville	TV film
2009	Virtuality	Dr. Roger Fallon	TV film
2009-10	Secret Diary of a Call Girl	Duncan	TV series (8 episodes)
2010	Natural Selection	John Henry Wilson	short
2011	Flight of the Swan, TheThe Flight of the Swan	Alexis
2011	Age of Heroes	Ian Fleming
2011	Screwed	Sam
2011	W.E.	King Edward VIII
2012	In Their Skin	Bobby
2012	The Domino Effect	Mark
2012	Cloud Atlas	Rufus Sixsmith, Nurse James, Archivist
2012	Hitchcock	Anthony Perkins
2012	Overnight	Tom
2012	The Making of a Lady	Captain Alec Osborn
2014	Let's Be Cops	Mossi Kasic
2014	After the Dark	Mr. Zimit
2014	Those Who Kill	Thomas Schaeffer
2015	Broadchurch	Lee Ashworth
2015	Jupiter Ascending	Maximilian Jones
2015-16	Agent Carter	Edwin Jarvis	TV series
2015	Survivor	Paul Anderson
2017	Dunkirk		Filming

Awards

• Nominated for the Ian Charleson Award in 2002 (Outstanding Performance in a Classical Role) for Edward II.

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