James Frain

Career Screen In 1993, while in his final year of drama school, Frain made his film debut in Shadowlands, after being spotted by the film director Richard Attenborough.

In 2000, he was nominated for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's 20th Genie Awards in Toronto, for his performance as Gustave Sonnenschein in the István Szabó directed film Sunshine.

Frain has also appeared in a number of television series, including Soldier Soldier (1993); Armadillo (2001); 24 (2005); Invasion (2006); and The Closer (2006). He played Thomas Cromwell in Showtime's The Tudors; the villainous billionaire "Chess" in the NBC superhero/crime drama series The Cape; heroic Templar Sir Gregory in the Syfy original film Dark Relic (2010); and vampire Franklin Mott in the HBO drama True Blood. In season 2 of Grimm, Frain joined the cast as a mysterious recurring character named Eric Renard. The couple announced their separation in February 2023.

Filmography Film

Television

Video games

Theatre Year Play Role Venue Notes 1991 All for Love Myris Almeida Theatre, London 1992 The Rules of the Game Giorgo Almeida Theatre, London 1993 She Stoops to Conquer George Hastings Queen's Theatre, London with Peter Hall Company 1995 Zenobia Wahballat Young Vic, London with Royal Shakespeare Company 2000 Other People Mark Royal Court Theatre, London 2001 King Lear Edmund Almeida Theatre, London 2007 The Homecoming Teddy Cort Theatre, New York City 2019 The King's Speech Lionel Logue Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago