Biography
James Roday Rodriguez (born James David Rodriguez; April 4, 1976) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He starred on the USA Network series Psych as hyper-observant consultant detective and fake psychic Shawn Spencer.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
2023
as Zane
Faced with their biggest challenge yet, the gang sets out to honor a lost friend only to find themselves in the middle of where it all began – Spring ...

Psych 3: This Is Gus
2021
as Shawn Spencer
In preparation for a shotgun wedding before the birth of Baby Guster, Shawn and Gus go rogue in an attempt to track down Selene’s estranged husband, a...

Psych 3: This Is Gus
2021
Writer, Executive Producer
In preparation for a shotgun wedding before the birth of Baby Guster, Shawn and Gus go rogue in an attempt to track down Selene’s estranged husband, a...

Night of the Animated Dead
2021
as Tom (voice)
An animated retelling of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, in which a group of people in a rural farmhouse struggle to survive the threat of bloodthirsty zo...

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
2020
as Shawn Spencer
After Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, Shawn and Gus return to help him and find themselves embroiled in a c...

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
2020
Writer, Executive Producer
After Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, Shawn and Gus return to help him and find themselves embroiled in a c...

Buddy Games
2019
as Zane Holden
After six lifelong friends have a five-year falling out, “The Bobfather”, reunites his pals for the Buddy Games, an insane competition of absurd physi...

Berserk
2019
as Officer Duane
Three characters make the realization that none of them have ever felt true-fear, so over the course of one night, they set out to trick each other in...

Treehouse
2019
Writer, Director
Celebu-chef Peter Rake escapes a scandal for a weekend at his family’s isolated vacation home, but there are debts to repay and Peter has to learn the...

Psych: The Movie
2017
as Shawn Spencer
The ambitious friends come together during the holidays after a mystery assailant targets one of their own. A comedic thrill-ride follows, as the wild...

Psych: The Movie
2017
Writer
The ambitious friends come together during the holidays after a mystery assailant targets one of their own. A comedic thrill-ride follows, as the wild...

Pushing Dead
2016
as Dan Schauble
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too ...

Christmas Eve
2015
as B
Hilarity, romance, and transcendence prevail after a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve.

Baby, Baby, Baby
2015
as J.B.
The relationship between two mismatched people who try to move past their baggage to make their love work.

Gravy
2015
as Marty
It's All Hallow's Eve. A trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements seizes a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a l...

Gravy
2015
Director, Writer
It's All Hallow's Eve. A trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements seizes a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a l...
Nerd Herd
2015
as Kip
A couple faces unexpected parenting challenges when the father becomes a stay-at-home dad decides to home school their kids.

Gamer
2009
as News Co-Host #1
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-sc...

In Sickness and in Health
2008
as Carlos
It is Samantha's wedding day- but she gets a note saying her groom-to-be is a serial killer.

Beerfest
2006
as German Messenger
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing...

Skinwalkers
2006
Screenplay
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-re...

Don't Come Knocking
2005
as 1st AD
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and y...

The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
as Billy Prickett
Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from bein...

Rolling Kansas
2003
as Dick Murphy
A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.

Showtime
2002
as 'Maxis' Cameraman
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.

Repli-Kate
2002
as Max
A scientist and his sidekick accidentally clone a journalist and decide to turn the mistake into Repli-Kate, their idea of the perfect woman, who love...

Coming Soon
1999
as Chad
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than j...

the revolution
N/A
as Peter
Experimental film. Political drama. 1960s activists rethink their tactics and personal alliances as the Vietnam War and civil unrest at home escalate.
The Rule of Three
N/A
Director, Screenplay
The question that haunts three women is: "Can you change your own destiny?" as the urban myth 'Rule of Three' hunts them. But when you're not sure if ...