Biography
James Paul Marsden (born September 18, 1973) is an American actor. He began his acting career by guest-starring on the television shows Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1993), Touched by an Angel (1995), and Party of Five (1995). Marsden gained fame for his portrayal of Cyclops in the X-Men film series from 2000 to 2014, and for his roles in the films The Notebook (2004), Superman Returns (2006), Hairspray (2007), Enchanted (2007), 27 Dresses (2008), and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)...
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Avengers: Doomsday
2026
as Scott Summers / Cyclops
The Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts, and X-Men all fight against Doctor Doom. Plot TBA.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2024
as Tom
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. ...

Unfrosted
2024
as Jack Lalanne
In a time when breakfast is ruled by milk and cereal, a fierce corporate battle begins over a revolutionary new pastry.

Knox Goes Away
2024
as Miles Knox
A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life o...

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
2023
as Hank (voice)
A magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City and gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The Mighty Pups.

Disenchanted
2022
as Prince Edward
Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle...

Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2022
as Tom Wachowski
After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time wit...

My Little Pony: A New Generation
2021
as Hitch Trailblazer (voice)
Equestria's divided. But a bright-eyed hero believes Earth Ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns should be pals — and, hoof to heart, she’s determined to prove ...

The Boss Baby: Family Business
2021
as Tim Templeton (voice)
The Templeton brothers — Tim and his Boss Baby little bro Ted — have become adults and drifted away from each other. But a new boss baby with a cuttin...
Born of a Dream
2020
as F.A. Jones
More than 150 years ago, a young watchmaker from Boston had the ambitious dream to change the watchmaking industry forever. Decades later, legendary q...

30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020
as Criss Cross (voice)
In a one-time special event featuring all the beloved characters from the original series, Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy reunite the TGS team to help Ken...

Sonic the Hedgehog
2020
as Tom Wachowski
Powered with incredible speed, Sonic The Hedgehog embraces his new home on Earth. That is, until Sonic sparks the attention of super-uncool evil geniu...

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019
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Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a co...

Henchmen
2018
as Hank (voice)
When a new recruit joins the Union of Evil, he is assigned to a motley crew of blue-collar workers led by fallen henchmen Hank. But when “The Kid” acc...

Shock and Awe
2017
as Warren Strobel
A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons ...

Tour de Pharmacy
2017
as Rex Honeycut
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.

The Female Brain
2017
as Adam
The neurological inner workings of romantic relationships between men and women are studied for science.

The D Train
2015
as Oliver Lawless
With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship ...

Unfinished Business
2015
as Jim Spinch
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a rout...

Into the Grizzly Maze
2015
as Rowan
Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly b...

Accidental Love
2015
as Scott
A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC. Sparks fly when sh...

The Best of Me
2014
as Dawson Cole
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

The Loft
2014
as Chris Vanowen
For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead bo...

Welcome to Me
2014
as Rich Ruskin
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own ta...

X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
as Scott Summers
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an e...

Walk of Shame
2014
as Gordon
A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or m...

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013
as Jack Lime
With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

The Butler
2013
as John F. Kennedy
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as...

2 Guns
2013
as Quince
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- ...

As Cool as I Am
2013
as Chuck Diamond
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.

Robot & Frank
2012
as Hunter
Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. ...

Small Apartments
2012
as Bernard Franklin
When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lus...

Bachelorette
2012
as Trevor Graham
Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

Straw Dogs
2011
as David Sumner
A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spi...

Hop
2011
as Fred
E.B., the Easter Bunny's teenage son, heads to Hollywood, determined to become a drummer in a rock 'n' roll band. In L.A., he's taken in by Fred after...

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
as Diggs (voice)
The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for c...

Death at a Funeral
2010
as Oscar
Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally dru...

The Box
2009
as Arthur Lewis
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A...

Sex Drive
2008
as Rex Lafferty
A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
Pip's Predicament: A Pop-Up Adventure
2008
as Prince Edward (voice)

27 Dresses
2008
as Kevin Doyle
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

Enchanted
2007
as Prince Edward
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the str...

Hairspray
2007
as Corny Collins
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Thr...

Requiem for Krypton: Making 'Superman Returns'
2006
as Self
A detailed behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Superman Returns.

Superman Returns
2006
as Richard White
Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on...

X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
as Scott Summers / Cyclops
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mut...

10th & Wolf
2006
as Tommy
A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with ...

The Alibi
2006
as Wendell Hatch
Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant ot...

Heights
2005
as Jonathan
Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

The Notebook
2004
as Lon Hammond
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life ...

The 24th Day
2004
as Dan
Tom and Dan's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
2003
The making of the sequel to the first X-Men film, trying to make it bigger and better than the previous film, and the challenges that come with that g...

X2 Global Webcast Highlights
2003
as Self
In this piece, Michael Broidy of Fox Publicity sits with Bryan Singer, producers Ralph Winter and Lauren Shuler Donner, and actors Hugh Jackman, James...

X2
2003
as Scott Summers / Cyclops
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm...

Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
2003
A four part documentary on the making of the first X-Men film, from pre-production, to principal photography, to post-production, and reflections on t...

X-Men: Premieres Around the World
2003
as Self
We find notes from Singer, Stan Lee, Stewart, McKellen, Berry, Mane, Davison, Romijn-Stamos, Paquin, Jackman, Janssen, and Marsden.

Interstate 60
2002
as Neal Oliver
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
as Cyclops (archive footage)
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the mode...

Zoolander
2001
as John Wilkes Booth
Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's...

Sugar & Spice
2001
as Jack Bartlett
When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Sq...

X-Men
2000
as Cyclops
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organizat...

X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2000
as Self - 'Cyclops'
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men.

Gossip
2000
as Derrick Webb
For a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it be...

Disturbing Behavior
1998
as Steve Clark
Steve Clark is a newcomer in the town of Cradle Bay, and he quickly realizes that there's something odd about his high school classmates. The clique k...

Bella Mafia
1997
as Luka
Following the brutal murder of her husband and male kin, Sophia unites with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, in a fierce quest for vengeance agai...

On the Edge of Innocence
1997
as Jake Walker
Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric ...

Campfire Tales
1997
as Eddie (segment "The Hook")
Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.

Gone in a Heartbeat
1996
as Michael Haller
When teenage students kidnap Jan Hale they do not mean her any real harm - they just want enough ransom money from her husband Mark to afford a life o...

Public Enemies
1996
as Doc Barker
Ma Barker and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's Most Wanted list in the 1930s.

919 Fifth Avenue
1995
as Will
When Ben Constant agreed to write a biography on the wealthy Van Degan family, he never suspected the depth of scandal and intrigue surrounding them.

No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
1994
as Tyler Cochran
A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior...

Search and Rescue
1994
They may seem like an ordinary group of people from the small town of Bear Valley, but after they risk their lives to perform heroic rescues in the ru...

In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco
1993
as Steven Willis
Religious fanatics are barricaded in a building and surrounded by police. But they're not going to surrender; they prefer to die.

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
N/A
as Mike
Plot unknown. Described as a buddy action-comedy set in the criminal underworld.