Stephan James

James was born in Scarborough, Toronto. He graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute in 2009. He is the younger brother of actor Shamier Anderson. His family is Jamaican.\n', ' James got his start in television starring for two seasons in the long-running Canadian teen series Degrassi: The Next Generation. After leaving Degrassi, James played various supporting roles on television, including in How To Be Indie, Clue, and My Babysitter\'s a Vampire in 2011, and The Listener and The LA Complex in 2012. Also in 2011, he played a supporting role in the ABC Family made-for-TV movie 12 Dates of Christmas.\n', ' James landed his first major feature film role playing opposite Tatyana Ali and Fefe Dobson in the Canadian film Home Again (2012), in which he played a Jamaican deportee. Although the film received mixed reviews, The Globe and Mail gave James\' performance a positive review, calling it "heartbreaking." James garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards for his performance, though he ultimately lost to Serge Kanyinda.\n', '