James Chalmers is a British

United Kingdom

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 actor. He was educated at Eagle House School

Eagle House School

Eagle House School is a preparatory school near Sandhurst in Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1820, and is still functional today. Eagle House School caters for male and female children of age 3 to the age of 13....

 and Bradfield College

Bradfield College

Bradfield College is a coeducational independent school located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire.The college was founded in 1850 by Thomas Stevens, Rector and Lord of the Manor of Bradfield...

. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London. LAMDA's president is Timothy West and its new principal is Joanna Read, who recently succeeded Peter James...

 (LAMDA), London

London

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, with fellow students Daisy Haggard

Daisy Haggard

-Family:The daughter of film director Piers Haggard and his wife Anna Slovsky, she was raised and educated in Dulwich, South London at the James Allen's Girls' School.-Career:...

 and Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English film, television, and theatre actor. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking ; William Pitt in the historical film Amazing Grace ; the protagonist Stephen Ezard in the miniseries thriller The Last Enemy ; Paul...

, graduating in 2000.

He is most known for his role in Tamar's Revenge (2004) at the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

, where he played the lead role of Absalom

Absalom

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. In that season he also appeared in Pedro, the Great Pretender, Dog in a Manger, and House of Desires .

In 2006, he guest starred in the The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

as the hopeless Environmental Protection Officer Alistair Maddison. In 2008, he guest starred in the Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

as the scam artist Steve Denver.

In 2008, he played the lead Johnny Hooker in the new British zombie movie Within The Woods 2008 directed by Luke Massey.

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