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James Marsters

Acting

Born August 20, 1962 · Greenville, California, USA

Biography

James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor and musician. Marsters first came to the attention of the general public playing the popular character Spike, a platinum-blond English vampire in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series, Angel from 1997 to 2004. Since then, he has gone on to play other science fiction roles, such as the alien supervillain Brainiac on the Superman-inspired series Smallville, the omnisexual time traveller Captain John Hart in British science-fiction show Torchwood and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's Caprica. In 2007, Marsters appeared in a supporting role in the mainstream movie P.S. I Love You and as the main antagonist, Piccolo, in the 2009 fantasy adventure film Dragonball Evolution. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Marsters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Saturn AwardBest Supporting Actor on Television · 2004
  • Saturn AwardBest Supporting Actor on Television · 2001

Filmography37 titles

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008as Captain Argyus (voice)

Supernatural

2005as Don Stark

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

2010as Dandy Highwayman (voice)

Smallville

2001as Milton Fine

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1997as Spike

Lie to Me

2009as Jay Pollack

Angel

1999as Spike

Northern Exposure

1990as Reverend Harding

DuckTales

2017as Nosferatu (voice)

Ultimate Spider-Man

2012as Korvac/Chitauri #3 (voice)

Hawaii Five-0

2010as Victor Hesse

Warehouse 13

2009as Sutton

The Order

2019as Xavier

Hollywood Squares

1998as Self - Panelist

The Super Hero Squad Show

as Mister Fantastic

Leverage: Redemption

2021as Carl

Runaways

2017as Victor Stein

Witches of East End

2013as Mason Tarkoff

Saving Grace

2007as Dudley Payne

Torchwood

2006as Captain John Hart

Without a Trace

2002as Grant Mars

P.S. I Love You

2007as John

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

2003as Sergei (voice)

Andromeda

2000as Charlemagne Bolivar

Numb3rs

2005as Damian Lake

Caprica

2009as Barnabas Greeley

Superman: Doomsday

2007as Lex Luthor (voice)

New Life

2016as William Morton

Curses!

2023as Larry (voice)

Abruptio

2023as Les Hackel

Cool Money

2005as Bobby Comfort

The Capture of the Green River Killer

as Ted Bundy

Casa Grande

as Miller Dalton

House on Haunted Hill

1999as Channel 3 Cameraman

Shadow Puppets

2007as Jack

Dudes & Dragons

2015as Lord Tensley

Dragonball: Evolution

2009as Lord Piccolo