James Floyd
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Career
James just filmed the lead in Sally El HosainiSally El Hosaini
Sally El Hosaini is an Egyptian Welsh screenwriter & film director. She was one of Screen International's UK Stars of Tomorrow 2009.-Filmography:*My Brother the Devil 2012*Camelia 2011...
's debut feature film 'My Brother The Devil' along side Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui is a French actor and screenwriter. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz...
(La Haine
La Haine
La Haine is a 1995 French black-and-white film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is commonly released under its French title in the English-speaking world, although its American VHS release was entitled Hate. It is about three teenage friends and their struggle to live in...
, Three Kings, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra). The World Premiere is at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
where it is in Competition.
He was last seen as the lead role in Menhaj Huda
Menhaj Huda
Menhaj Huda is a British film and television director and producer of Bangladeshi descent.-Movie career:His first directing job was the 1993 television series Hypnosis...
's (director of Kidulthood
Kidulthood
Kidulthood is a 2006 British drama film about the life of several teenagers in Ladbroke Grove and Latimer Road area of inner west London. It was directed by Menhaj Huda and written by Noel Clarke, who also stars in the film and directed the sequel, Adulthood...
) new film 'Everywhere and Nowhere
Everywhere and Nowhere
Everywhere and Nowhere is a coming of age drama focusing on the identity struggles of Ash a young British Indian who is torn between the traditions of suburban family life and his passion for DJ'ing...
'. It was released on the 6 May 2011 in the UK. It played at the 2011 Mumbai Film Festival
Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image
The Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image is a public trust that organizes annual International Film Festival in Mumbai known as the Mumbai Film Festival...
and Dinard Film Festival.
Screen International
Screen International
Screen International is a multimedia film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by EMAP, a British b2b media company.The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global movie business...
wrote 'Floyd gives an attractive star performance' and Time Out described his 'a career-making performance'.
The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
profiled him in their prestigious 'First Sight' feature of April 2011.
Other roles include a washed up Mancunian '80s pop star with a secret, in the 2010 released film The Infidel
The Infidel (2010 film)
The Infidel is a 2010 British comedy film directed by Josh Appignanesi and written by David Baddiel. The film stars Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Yigal Naor and Matt Lucas and revolves around a British Muslim who goes through an identity crisis when he discovers he was adopted as a child and born...
.
He was also seen in the feature film Tormented
Tormented (2009 film)
Tormented is a 2009 horror-comedy film starring Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas, Calvin Dean and newcomer Tuppence Middleton. Directed by Jon Wright and written by newcomer Stephen Prentice, the film was released on 22 May 2009 in the UK...
playing a morbidly obsessed emo-goth, made by BBC Films
BBC Films
BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including An Education, StreetDance 3D, Fish Tank, Stage Beauty, A Cock and Bull Story, Nativity! and Match Point.It aims to make strong British films with...
& Forward Films. It was released internationally by Pathé
Pathé
Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...
& Warner Brothers.
2009, James was seen in Compulsion
Compulsion (television film)
Compulsion was a one-off ITV television drama, produced by Size 9 Productions and broadcast on 4 May, 2009. Inspired by the Jacobean tragedy The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, it follows a young female Cambridge graduate called Anjika Indrani and attempts by her father Satvick ...
(based on Middleton's Jacobean Tragedy The Changeling) playing a feckless, party-going lothario son of an industrialist alongside Ray Winstone
Ray Winstone
Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone is an English film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum and as Will Scarlet in the cult television adventure series Robin of Sherwood. He has also become well known as a voice over...
and Parminder Nagra
Parminder Nagra
Parminder Kaur Nagra is an English actress of Indian descent. She came to international prominence in 2002 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. She starred as Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama series ER for six years until the series ended on 2 April 2009...
which headlined ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's spring season. It was a ratings hit with 5.2 million viewers.
He played one of the leading roles, global soccer star Miguel Lopez, in the TV series Dream Team
Dream Team (TV series)
Dream Team is a British television series produced by Hewland International which aired on Sky1 and Sky3 from 1997 to 2007; it chronicled the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United Football Club....
from 2006 to 2007.
In 2007 he impressed many theatre critics playing Angus McBane in J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...
's 'forgotten' play The Glass Cage at the Royal & Derngate Theatre
Royal & Derngate
The Royal & Derngate is a two-venue theatre located in Northampton, England. Formed in 1999 by an operational merger between the Royal Theatre and the Derngate Theatre, both the venues are now run by Northampton Theatres Trust...
in Northampton
Northampton
Northampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. Situated about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, Northampton lies on the River Nene and is the county town of Northamptonshire. The demonym of Northampton is...
. The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
's Paul Taylor gave it 4 stars and wrote "A star-in-the-making, James Floyd brings a serrated edge of mocking, cockily comic challenge to the bibulous, impulsive younger nephew".
Other acclaimed performances include, in 2008, the lead at Theatre 503
Theatre 503
Theatre503 is located at 503 Battersea Park Road in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth, above the Latchmere pub. It is a performing arts venue which specialises in new work.-History:...
where The Stage
The Stage
The Stage is a weekly British newspaper founded in 1880, available nationally and published on Thursdays. Covering all areas of the entertainment industry but focused primarily on theatre, it contains news, reviews, opinion, features and other items of interest, mainly to those who work within the...
called him 'quite superb' and The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
's Lyn Gardner said 'James Floyd is impressive'.
He made his screen debut starring as a sexually confused groom in an episode of Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
(in episode "Metamorphosis").
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Everywhere + Nowhere Everywhere and Nowhere Everywhere and Nowhere is a coming of age drama focusing on the identity struggles of Ash a young British Indian who is torn between the traditions of suburban family life and his passion for DJ'ing... |
Ash | Released 2011 |
| 2010 | The Infidel The Infidel (2010 film) The Infidel is a 2010 British comedy film directed by Josh Appignanesi and written by David Baddiel. The film stars Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Yigal Naor and Matt Lucas and revolves around a British Muslim who goes through an identity crisis when he discovers he was adopted as a child and born... |
Gary Page | |
| 2009 | Tormented Tormented (2009 film) Tormented is a 2009 horror-comedy film starring Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas, Calvin Dean and newcomer Tuppence Middleton. Directed by Jon Wright and written by newcomer Stephen Prentice, the film was released on 22 May 2009 in the UK... |
Nasser | Pathe/Warner Bros |
| Compulsion Compulsion (television film) Compulsion was a one-off ITV television drama, produced by Size 9 Productions and broadcast on 4 May, 2009. Inspired by the Jacobean tragedy The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, it follows a young female Cambridge graduate called Anjika Indrani and attempts by her father Satvick ... |
Jaiman | ITV |
Television
| Year | Program | Role | Company - Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-7 | Dream Team Dream Team (TV series) Dream Team is a British television series produced by Hewland International which aired on Sky1 and Sky3 from 1997 to 2007; it chronicled the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United Football Club.... |
Miguel Lopez | Sky One - Various |
Theatre
The Glass Cage - Royal & DerngateDov & Ali - Theatre 503
Totally Practically Naked... - Tristan Bates Theatre
Antigone At Hell's Mouth - Soho Theatre