Acting

James Paxton

Born February 23, 1994 · Ojai, California, USA (age 32)

James Paxton was born and raised in Ojai, California. He studied British Film in London before studying at the Vincent Chase Workshop in Los Angeles, California. He starred in the USA Network drama series, Eyewitness, directed by Catherine Hardwicke and executive produced by Adi Hasak. He portrayed the character, Lukas Waldenbeck, alongside Julianne Nicholson and Tyler Young.

Known For

Twisters

Twisters · 2024

MovieActionThriller

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over · 2003

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

MovieFamilyAction

Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Roman J. Israel, Esq. · 2017

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

MovieDramaCrime

Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Greatest Game Ever Played · 2005

The Greatest Game Ever Played

A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

Velvet Buzzsaw

Velvet Buzzsaw · 2019

MovieThrillerMystery

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

The Fanatic

The Fanatic · 2019

MovieCrimeThriller

A rabid film fan stalks his favorite action hero and destroys the star's life.

Term Life

Term Life · 2016

MovieThrillerDrama

If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. The problem? The policy doesn't take effect for 21 days. Nick knows they'll be lucky to be alive for twenty-one hours.

Last Train to Fortune

Last Train to Fortune · 2025

Last Train to Fortune

MovieDramaWestern

When schoolteacher Cecil Peachtree misses the last train to Fortune, he strikes a deal with outlaw Dooley to secure safe and timely travel. On the journey, the two develop an odd friendship through the power of knowledge.

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Twisters

Twisters · 2024

MovieActionThriller

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

Cody

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over · 2003

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

MovieFamilyAction

Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.

Dinky Winks Jr.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Roman J. Israel, Esq. · 2017

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

MovieDramaCrime

Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

Henry (uncredited)

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Greatest Game Ever Played · 2005

The Greatest Game Ever Played

A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

Young Harry Vardon

Velvet Buzzsaw

Velvet Buzzsaw · 2019

MovieThrillerMystery

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

Bartender

The Fanatic

The Fanatic · 2019

MovieCrimeThriller

A rabid film fan stalks his favorite action hero and destroys the star's life.

Slim

Term Life

Term Life · 2016

MovieThrillerDrama

If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. The problem? The policy doesn't take effect for 21 days. Nick knows they'll be lucky to be alive for twenty-one hours.

Adam

Last Train to Fortune

Last Train to Fortune · 2025

Last Train to Fortune

MovieDramaWestern

When schoolteacher Cecil Peachtree misses the last train to Fortune, he strikes a deal with outlaw Dooley to secure safe and timely travel. On the journey, the two develop an odd friendship through the power of knowledge.

Jedidiah Dooley

Behavior Mod

Behavior Mod · 2025

On her first day of probation at a mental ward, Ruby faces a harrowing test of boundaries when a patient's unsettling advance spirals into a volatile confrontation.

Co-Producer

Alien: Containment

Alien: Containment · 2019

Alien: Containment

MovieDramaHorror

Aboard a small escape pod, four survivors try to discover what caused the destruction of their spaceship.

Man on Radio (voice)

Low Tide

Low Tide · 2019

In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan and his friends Red and Smitty break into vacation homes to steal valuables, funding dates at the boardwalk and lunches at the burger stand. When Alan and his younger brother Peter find a bag of gold coins, they try to hide them from the others — but Red, suspicious and violently unpredictable, seems willing to do anything to get the money.

Nate

Grind

Four interconnected stories center around the gig economy, hustle culture, and evils of late-stage capitalism.

Mascotland

MovieComedyThriller

A desert-set 1990s period piece about two brothers who, with the help of some costumes, escape a lifetime of captivity.

The Cleaner

The Cleaner · 2021

MovieCrimeDrama

When middle-aged house cleaner Buck Enderly takes on an eccentric new client, he gets roped into locating her estranged son. Buck tracks down the disturbed young man but in another twist of fate becomes an accomplice to a violent crime.

James

Unwinding

Unwinding · 2026

When the son of a Senator goes missing, private investigator Gaven Mori is hired by the family to piece together and solve the mystery.

Lucas Neville

Americano

Americano · 2019

Omar’s future is jeopardized when he has to deal with the hardships of living in the streets as an undocumented, gay teenager after his mother and only source of support is deported to Honduras. Getting accepted into a prestigious university intensifies his willingness to persist through the challenges that being alone in this country imposes.

Jayden

DRAGN

MovieActionHorror

During a team-building retreat in a remote forest, a group of colleagues unwittingly becomes the prey of a rogue AI-driven drone.

Tom Wilson

Alien: Alone

Alien: Alone · 2019

MovieScience FictionHorror

An abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.

MacWhirr / Xenomorph

Bit

MovieHorrorComedy

A transgender teenage girl on summer vacation in LA fights to survive after she falls in with four queer feminist vampires, who try to rid the city's streets of predatory men.

Mark

Once More, Like Rain Man

Once More, Like Rain Man · 2024

Once More, Like Rain Man

MovieDramaComedy

‘It’s up to you to make a future that has you in it…’ We follow Zoe and her dad, Gerry in a ‘day in the life’ of an autistic actress running the gambit of stereotypes she has to deal with - and her dad’s battle in supporting her forging that path for herself - in a funny, frustrating, painful and sometimes triumphantly sarcastic kind of way.

Producer 2.1

Teenage Badass

Teenage Badass · 2020

Set in 2006, the band Stylo and the Murder Dogs score a shot to play on the local news. But as all of their dreams start to become reality, the band's egocentric singer-songwriter threatens to make them lose everything.

Shan

Toad

MovieComedyAdventure

Two naive slackers, Sam and Alex, are hired to transport a box of contraband psychedelic toads from LA to Vegas. When the desert heat causes the toads to suffer heatstroke, our two heroes are inadvertently dosed when they give the toads CPR and suddenly find themselves on a hallucinogenic odyssey.

Sam

An American in Texas

An American in Texas · 2017

An American in Texas

Based on a true story, and set in late 1990 against the backdrop of the first gulf war, An American in Texas is the story of lifelong friends as they reach the cusp of adulthood and must decide between the hollow values of corporate careerism; or the narrow way of individualism and freedom.

Chad Hill

Orchard Girl

Orchard Girl · 2019

A fashion photography crew heads to a remote ranch house to shoot, only to get terrorized by a pair of ghoulish strangers. (Screamfest)

Producer

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · 2013

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

John Garrett

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno · 1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

SeriesTalkComedy

Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.

Tacoma FD

Tacoma FD · 2019

There's not a lot of fires to fight in one of the rainiest cities in America, leaving the crew at the Tacoma Fire Department tackling the less glamorous elements of the job. Light on blazes that need extinguishing, this squad keeps itself entertained with creative competitions, friendly first responder rivalries, and bizarre emergency calls.

Gene

Eyewitness

Eyewitness · 2016

SeriesCrimeDrama

Two teenage boys secretly meet up in a cabin, bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has been seen cannot be unseen -- and when you witness a horrible event, it changes everything.

Lukas Waldenbeck