James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is an English actor and film director. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the

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television series '' Agent Carter'' and the 2019 film '' Avengers: Endgame'', and murder suspect Lee Ashworth in the second season of the ITV series ''

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''. D'Arcy also co-starred as

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's war movie ''

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, and was raised in

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, 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, with his English relatives based around the Midlands. After completing his education at

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in 1991, at age 17, D'Arcy went to Australia for a year. He worked in the drama department of Christ Church Grammar School in

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, 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

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(LAMDA), completing a BA in Acting in 1995. During his time at LAMDA, he appeared in training productions of ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Wild Honey'', ''The Freedom of the City'' and '' Sherlock Holmes''.

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

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's ''Bribery and Corruption'', Lord Cheshire in '' The Canterville Ghost'', and Jonathan Maybury in ''The Ice House'' (all 1997). In 1997, he played Blifil in '' The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling''. In 1999, he acted in the

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drama '' The Trench'' as well as having a small role in the comedy '' Guest House Paradiso''. From 2001 to the present, he played bigger roles and leading characters in the mini-series '' Rebel Heart'' (2001 as Ernie Coyne), '' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (2001, Nicholas Nickleby) and ''

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'' (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 appeared in the horror films '' Exorcist: The Beginning'' (2004, Father Francis), ''

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'' (2005, Richard Powell) and '' Rise: Blood Hunter'' (2007, Bishop). He also appeared on television as Derek Kettering in ''

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'', '' The Mystery of the Blue Train'' (2005), as Jerry Burton in '' Agatha Christie's Marple: The Moving Finger'', as Tiberius Gracchus in the '' Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire'' episode "Revolution" (2007), as Toby Clifford in ''

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'' (2007) and as Tom Bertram in ITV's production of '' Mansfield Park'' (2007). He lent his voice to BBC radio dramas such as

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's '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'',

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's ''

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'' and Winifred Holtby's ''The Crowded Street''. He played the role of Duncan Atwood in ''

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''. 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 ''

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in '' Hitchcock''. In 2013, he played the role of Eric Zimit in '' After the Dark'' (other title: ''The Philosophers''). In mid-2014, he played the role of Lee Ashworth in series 2 of ''

''. He also appeared as the main villain in the 2014 action comedy '' Let's Be Cops'', as a malevolent Los Angeles crime boss. He starred as a British Army

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's ''

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''. Between January 2015 and March 2016, D'Arcy was a series regular in the television series '' Agent Carter'', which shares continuity with the

. In the series, he played Edwin Jarvis, the loyal butler of Howard Stark. He reprised his role of Edwin Jarvis in '' Avengers: Endgame'', making D'Arcy the first to have portrayed the same character originally from an MCU TV series into an MCU film.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

*Nominated for the

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in 2002 (Outstanding Performance in a Classical Role) for ''

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''.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:D'Arcy, James 1975 births Male actors from London Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art English male film actors English male television actors Living people People educated at Christ's Hospital Actors from Amersham People from Fulham Male actors from Buckinghamshire 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors