Biography
James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is an English actor and film director. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Agent Carter and the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, and murder suspect Lee Ashworth in the second season of the ITV series Broadchurch. D'Arcy also co-starred in Christopher Nolan's war movies Dunkirk(2017) and Oppenheimer (2023). He wrote and directed Made in Italy (2020). Descript...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Captain Tom: Where Did the Money Go?
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
How, after the death of Captain Tom, difficult questions were raised about his legacy.

North of Normal
2023
as Sam
After being raised in the wilderness, a teenage girl moves to the city hoping for a normal life with her anything but normal mother.

Oppenheimer
2023
as Patrick Blackett
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Alice, Darling
2022
Thanks
Pushed to the breaking point by Simon, her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Alice becomes an unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her ...

Warning
2021
as The Voice of God
Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.

Six Minutes to Midnight
2020
as Captain Drey
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and...

LX 2048
2020
as Adam Bird
In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the vir...

Made in Italy
2020
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.

Life Like
2019
as Julian
An idealistic attractive young couple acquires a stunning, life-like robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of huma...

Avengers: Endgame
2019
as Jarvis
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini...

The Snowman
2017
as Filip Becker
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

Diana: 7 Days That Shook the Windsors
2017
as Narrator (voice)
This illuminating documentary examines the aftermath of Princess Diana's tragic death and the tense, dramatic week leading up to her funeral

Dunkirk
2017
as Colonel Winnant
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army...

Chicken/Egg
2017
Director, Writer, Production Manager
Mark is going to help his uncle out. Maybe.

Guernica
2016
as Henry
The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.

Sky Safari: Australia
2016
as James D'Arcy (voice)

Instruments of Darkness
2015
as Banquo
A war hero and the lure of ambition and descent into hell. An adaptation of Macbeth.

Entrando Numa Roubada
2015
Co-Producer
A film director, Walter, meets his old team to make a "road movie". With no money, they will have come up with scams in order to make the production p...

Survivor
2015
as Paul Anderson
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for cri...

Jupiter Ascending
2015
as Maximilian Jones
In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers an...

Let's Be Cops
2014
as Mossi
Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed a...

After the Dark
2013
as Eric Zimit
At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take s...
Dinofish
2013
as Narrator
Coelacanth (SEEL-uh-kanth): a large fish with limblike fins, armored scales and a tail that no other living fish possesses. This prehistoric fish was ...

The Making of a Lady
2012
as Captain Alec Osborn
Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst, a widower pushed into providing an heir by his...

Hitchcock
2012
as Anthony Perkins
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert B...

In Their Skin
2012
as Bobby
A couple and their young son retreat to their woodland vacation home, only to face sinister neighbors who intend to kill them and steal their identiti...

Cloud Atlas
2012
as Young Rufus Sixsmith / Old Rufus Sixsmith / Nurse James / Archivist
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and con...

The Domino Effect
2012
as Mark
If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to ...

Overnight
2012
as Tom
After breaking up with her boyfriend on Valentine's Day, Jenny shares a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York with a love-damaged group of pass...

W.E.
2011
as Edward
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning....

Screwed
2011
as Sam
The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK'...

Age of Heroes
2011
as Lt. Cdr. Ian Fleming
The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.

The Flight of the Swan
2011
as Alexis
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress an...

Virtuality
2009
as Dr. Roger Fallon
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In o...

Into the Storm
2009
as Jock Colville
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the w...

The Eastmans
2009
as Dr. Peter Eastman
Within a family of doctors, the parents and the adult children find themselves successful professionally but dysfunctional personally. When the patria...

Flashbacks of a Fool
2008
as Jack Adams
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his child...

Rise: Blood Hunter
2007
as Bishop
A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta against a grou...

Mansfield Park
2007
as Tom Bertram
In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to h...

An American Haunting
2005
as Richard Powell
An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface. Based on the true events of the only case in US History wh...

Exorcist: The Beginning
2004
as Father Francis
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
as 1st Lt. Thomas Pullings
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase o...

Dot the I
2003
as Barnaby F. Caspian
Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to l...

Sherlock: Case of Evil
2002
as Sherlock Holmes
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2002
as Sir Gawain (voice)
A reworking of the 14th century Arthurian medieval poem as an animated film styled to look like stain glass windows.
Come Together
2002
as Jack

Revelation
2001
as Jake Martel
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, ...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
2001
as Nicholas Nickleby
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.

Guest House Paradiso
1999
as Young Groom
Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has ...
The Bass Player
1999
In the 1800s, a bass player's attempts to woo a young woman lead to both parties being trapped in an awkward situation.

The Trench
1999
as Pte. Colin Daventry
The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in Briti...

The Canterville Ghost
1997
as Lord Cheshire
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the populari...

Wilde
1997
as First Friend
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment a...