Biography
James Anthony Sturgess (born 16 May 1978) is an English actor and singer-songwriter. His first major role was as Jude in the musical romance drama film Across the Universe (2007). In 2008, he played the male lead role of Ben Campbell in 21. In 2009, he played Gavin Kossef in the crime drama Crossing Over, appearing with Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd. In 2010, Sturgess starred in the film The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir. Sturgess co-starred in the 2012 epic science fiction film ...
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Complete Filmography

Apartment 7A
2024
as Alan Marchand
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.

Alone Together
2022
as Charlie
Strangers June and Charlie wind up double-booked in the same upstate New York Airbnb during the start of COVID-19. Exasperating the situation, the loc...

The Other Me
2022
as Irakli
The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and ...

Berlin, I Love You
2019
as Jared
An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.

J.T. LeRoy
2019
as Geoffrey Knoop
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-i...

London Fields
2018
as Keith Talent
Clairvoyant femme fatale, Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with t...

Geostorm
2017
as Max Lawson
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellit...

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
as Cor Van Hout
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a r...

Stonehearst Asylum
2014
as Edward Newgate
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea ...

Electric Slide
2014
as Eddie Dodson
A heightened homage to the City of Angels, Electric Slide riffs on the real-life story of Eddie Dodson, the notorious "Gentleman Bank Robber." With a ...

The Best Offer
2013
as Robert
Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his ...

Cloud Atlas
2012
as Adam Ewing / Poor Hotel Guest / Megan's Dad / Highlander / Hae-Joo Chang / Adam / Zachry Brother-in-Law
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...

Spike Island
2012
as Burger Vendor
Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.

Upside Down
2012
as Adam Kirk
In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his que...

Ashes
2012
as James
One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospita...

One Day
2011
as Dexter Mayhew
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows...

The Way Back
2010
as Janusz Wieszczek
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and ...

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
as Soren (voice)
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.

Heartless
2010
as Jamie Morgan
The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeling isolated and fearful, hiding from the world out...

Crossing Over
2009
as Gavin Kossef
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. The...

Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
as Martin
It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the...

21
2008
as Ben Campbell
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine ...

The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
as George Boleyn
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sister...
Creating the Universe
2008
Making of Across the Universe

Across the Universe
2007
as Jude
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shapi...

Mouth to Mouth
2005
as Red
An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.

Friends Reunited
2005
as Ryan
Two decades after they graduate, dark secrets, jealousies, and long-buried issues of resentment arise with a group of former classmates.
The Final Quest
2004
as Young Charlie
Three old friends reminisce about their old haunts. Hearing that a coffee bar they frequented in their youth is reopening with a rock 'n' roll theme,...
The Second Quest
2004
as Young Charlie
Three old friends are reunited after one was involved in an accident. They reminisce about their motorbike trip to the Isle of Man to ride the TT cour...

Thursday the 12th
2003
as Martin Bannister
In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is found on their propert...

Rehab
2003
as Darryl
TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
The Quest
2002
as young Charlie
Three elderly men, Dave, Ronno and Charlie, meet at Charlie's retirement party and reminisce about their teenage "quest" in the 1950s to get laid. Thi...

Hawkins
2001
as Shop Assistant
Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fa...

The Browning Version
1994
as Bryant
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being...
One Thousand Paper Cranes
N/A
Two remarkable women unwittingly work together, across oceans and decades, to create a powerful symbol of peace, the paper crane.
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
N/A
Ex-bank robber Danny's teenage granddaughter Paige means the world to him. When she overhears that his former gang is pulling him back in for one more...