• Name: James Callis
• Date of Birth: June 04, 1971
• Place of Birth: London, United Kingdom

• Add to My Favorites
• Post a Comment

Biography: Callis grew up in London where he attended Harrow School in North West London. Callis is Jewish. In 1990, he went on to study for a BA in English and Related Literature at the University of York, wh...( read more )ere he was a member of Derwent College. At university he was a keen student actor, director, and writer, sometimes also appearing in productions put on by friends at Cambridge University, including a production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. He graduated from York with a 2.2 in 1993.

Callis went on to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1996, and in the same year he was awarded the Jack Tinker Award (Theatre Record Critic of the Year) for Most Promising Newcomer for his performance in Old Wicked Songs. Callis has appeared in various West End productions and television series as well as on radio. He has also been involved in writing and directing.

His directional debut was Beginner's Luck, a co-production of his and writer/director Nick Cohen's Late Night Pictures and Angel Eye Film & TV, starring Julie Delpy, Steven Berkoff and Fenella Fielding. Beginner's Luck was critically panned and failed to secure a UK distributor. Callis finished filming his first role in a cinema film, Bridget Jones's Diary, alongside Renée Zellweger & Hugh Grant, in the summer of 2000 and between a few further film and TV roles went back on stage in the Soho Theatre in December 2002. In 2003, Callis landed the role of Dr. Gaius Baltar in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries, and has continued the role in the regular series that followed. Callis has two sisters. He lives in London with his wife Neha and their son Josh, who was born in 2003. Apart from acting, directing and writing, he also plays piano and guitar.

• 
  princessqtpl
  ONLINE NOW 
• 
  Nighthawk123
   
• 
  339
   
• 
  Suela
   
• 
  TheBlackKnight
   
• 
  lucyflawlessnorthern
   
• 
  matraggs
   
• 
  jeffcounsil
   

• 
  TheBlackKnight

  Callis as Gaius is brilliant. One of my favorite antiheroes!

  posted 381 days ago
• 
  zenchick351

  I'm a big fan of Callis' work on Battlestar Galactica; usually the best scenes of the series have him in them.

  posted 537 days ago

• 
  Ashley Tisdale
• 
  Angelina Jolie
• 
  Hugh Jackman
• 
  Milo Ventimiglia
• 
  Tim Allen
• 
  Robert Downey Jr.

• Battlestar Galactica: Razor (Unrated, 2007)
• One Night With the King (PG, 2006)
• Dead Cool (Unrated, 2004)
• Helen of Troy (Unrated, 2003)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (R, 2001)

No headlines. Got one?

No skins yet. Interested in creating one?

No quizzes for James Callis. Want to create one?

No video clips yet...got one?