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My Take
James Frain is the kind of actor whose face you recognize instantly even if you struggle to place the name, and I mean that as a compliment. His Thomas Cromwell in The Tudors had this cold, calculating menace, and he brought the same precision to Warwick in The White Queen and his villain in Orphan Black. A University of East Anglia man who has quietly built a deep career across British and American television, he specializes in characters who feel dangerous because they are thinking. I genuinely seek out projects when his name appears, because he never phones in even a small role.
Overview
James Frain is an English actor. His best known television roles include Thomas Cromwell in the Showtime/CBC historical drama The Tudors (2007–2009), Franklin Mott in the HBO drama True Blood (2010), Warwick the Kingmaker in the BBC drama serial The White Queen (2013), John Sumner in the Sky/Canal+ crime drama The Tunnel (2013), Ferdinand Chevalier in the BBC/Space sci-fi thriller Orphan Black (2015–2017), Theo Galav…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- James Frain
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェームズ・フレイン
- Reading
- じぇーむず・ふれいん
- Born
- March 14, 1968 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Monkey
- Origin
- Leeds, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / actor / film director / theatre director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of East Anglia
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.