James Loye - (actra caea baea)

James has been living and working in Montréal for nearly two decades. Born in Bristol he obtained a first-class honours degree in acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He lived and worked as an actor for over a decade in London, Toronto and New York. During this time, James played venues including: The Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Chichester Festival, Young Vic, Barbican, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Sheffield Crucible, New Victory Theatre, New York and The Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto. He has worked in the West End, Broadway and Open-Air Shakespeare. In 2005 James originated the role Frodo Baggins in the The Lord of The Rings musical (Best Actor in a Musical nomination - Whatsonstage.com), which brought him to Canada, and changed the course of his life and career.

Since moving to Montréal, theatre credits include, Million Dollar Quartet (Seagal Centre); Butcher (Centaur Theatre), The Medea Effect (Talisman), Dumb Waiter; Prince John in Robin Hood (Centaur, winner Best Actor male -META) and The Sound of Music (National Arts Centre).

James’ TV work includes the BBC’s epic three-part dramatization of the Dunkirk evacuations where he played navigator LTA David Mellis. He also worked on numerous film and television productions, playing the role of Sherlock Holmes in Genius; Dr. Aniotti in Blood and Treasure and Captain Pratt in Hochelaga, terre des âmes (Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Film). Other credits include roles in The Con, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Mohawk Girls, The X-Men, The Art of More, Being Human and Pelican Blood.

James is also an experienced voice performer. One of the most memorable was playing Edgar in the BBC world service’s production of King Lear opposite Phillip Madoc, Fiona Shaw and Andrew Sachs. The production was recorded live at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Since then, he has lent his voice to various projects, including world-famous videogames such as: Star Wars Outlast, Monster Stories 2, Outriders, Deus Ex Glimpse as well as multiple games from the Assassin’s Creed franchise.

Having had a lot of practice chasing after his 4 children James recently got into marathon running (2 so far) and stands by the mantra that pain is just French for bread.