Biography
James Dornan (born May 1, 1982) is an Irish actor, model, and musician. He played Axel von Fersen in Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette (2006), Sheriff Graham Humbert in the ABC series Once Upon a Time, serial killer Paul Spector in the BBC Two and RTÉ One crime drama series The Fall, and Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades franchise (2015-2018).
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Haunting in Venice
2023
as Dr Leslie Ferrier
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunte...

Heart of Stone
2023
as Parker
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.

Belfast
2021
as Pa
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his b...

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
2021
as Edgar Pagét
The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where t...

Wild Mountain Thyme
2020
as Anthony
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a...

Synchronic
2020
as Dennis Dannelly
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly...

Endings, Beginnings
2020
as Jack
An artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.

Trolls World Tour
2020
as Chaz (voice)
Queen Poppy and Branch make a surprising discovery — there are other Troll worlds beyond their own, and their distinct differences create big clashes ...

Untogether
2019
as Nick
Once considered a teen prodigy, a recovering addict sobers up and tries to get her writing career back on track. She begins a relationship with a risi...

A Private War
2018
as Paul Conroy
One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conf...

Robin Hood
2018
as Will Scarlet
A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

My Dinner with Hervé
2018
as Danny Tate
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toti...

Fifty Shades Freed
2018
as Christian Grey
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life ...

Fifty Shades Darker
2017
as Christian Grey
When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another...

The Siege of Jadotville
2016
as Pat Quinlan
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.

The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
as Dr. Allan Pascal
A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of ...

Anthropoid
2016
as Jan Kubiš
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
as Christian Grey
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little d...

Flying Home
2014
as Colin
Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh ...

X Returns
2009
as X
After nearly 40 years of false imprisonment, cruel scientific testing and denial by the US government, Agent X is finally a free man again.

Shadows in the Sun
2009
as Joe
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.

Nice To Meet You
2009
as The Young Man
The woman is awoken from her mid-afternoon suburban slumber by the arrival of an attractive young man over her garden fence. The man is being chased b...

Beyond the Rave
2008
as Ed
An English soldier must find and win back his girlfriend from the clutches of a mysterious group of hardcore ravers before he flies to Iraq in the mor...

The Making of Marie Antoinette
2007
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).

Marie Antoinette
2006
as Count Fersen
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19...
Love Is Not the Answer
N/A
Plot details under wraps but is described as a “precise yet unpredictable, absurdist comedy that moves between hilarity and heartbreak as it explores ...