James Roday
James Roday was born in San Antonio, Texas, United States on April 4th, 1976 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 48, James Roday biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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James David Rodriguez (born April 4, 1976), also known as James Roday, is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter.
Shawn Spencer appeared on USA Network's Psych as a hyper-observant consultant detective and fake psychic.
He stars in A Million Little Things.
Early life
As James David Rodriguez, Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, Texas. He attended Taft High School in San Antonio. Jaime "Jim" Rodriguez's father is of Mexican descent, and Deborah Collins, his mother, is of English, Irish, and Scottish descent. Rodriguez's father, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant, used to be Taco Cabana's regional catering manager.
Rodriguez studied theatre and received a bachelor's degree in fine arts at New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing. He chose the word James Roday at the age of 22, and he took the name James Roday to describe himself. Rodriguez explained in a July 2020 interview that the decision was mainly driven by producers and casting directors' concerns that his Caucasian appearance clashed with his Spanish-Latino family name. The characters he read before were deemed out of a Latino background or required a non-white "Mexican" appearance. He legally changed his middle name, David, to Roday (from an Anton Chekhov play), and omitted Rodriguez from his screen name in order to book his first job. In the same interview, he regretted that he "old out my roots in about 15 seconds" and announced that going forward he would use his full legal name, James Roday Rodriguez.
Personal life
Rodriguez is the co-artistic director of the Red Dog Squadron, a Los Angeles theater company he co-founded with Brad Raider. Matt Shakman, a retired artist from Toledo and Black Dahlia, purchased the El Centro Theatre in 2012 and began a long process of renovations with the intention of reopening it under the original name Circle Theatre. Raider and Rodriguez's newsletter from August 2018 revealed that they would have to resell the theater in early 2018.
Maggie Lawson, the Psych co-star from 2006 to 2014, appeared on the series as a co-star.
Career
Rodriguez began his acting career in various theater productions, including Three Sisters, A Respectable Marriage, and Mistress of Severity. He performed leading roles in Sexual Perversion in Chicago and Extinction, which he produced with his theatre company Red Dog Squadron, which also produced and directed the play Sustenance. He appeared in the New York production of White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour in December 2016.
Ryan Reynolds and fellow debutant Ashton Kutcher were in the 1999 film Coming Soon. The 2003 film Rolling Kansas and The Dukes Of Hazzard's 2005 film adaptation are two of the early film credits. Todd Harthan and James DeMonaco, along with writer Stephanie DeMonaco, wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Skinwalkers. The crew also worked on a script for the film adaptation of Driver.
Rodriguez appeared in 2001's First Years and NBC's Miss Match in 2003. With the premiere of USA Network's original series Psych on July 7, 2006, he made his big break. It was the highest-rated scripted basic cable TV show premiere of 2006 following Monk's season premiere. Psychiatry was on the radio for eight seasons before retiring in 2014.
Rodriguez appeared in a number of pilots and independent films after Psychiatry ended, most notably, independent filmmaker Tom E. Brown's Pushing Dead earned a slew of awards at film festivals around the country, including one for himself. At the same time, he began focusing on his film work as a writer, producer, and actor. Since directing episodes for Battle Creek, Rush Hour, Rosewood, Blood Drive, and The Resident and Developed, Rodriguez wrote, and directed the pilots Shoot The Moon for USA and Quest For Truth for E!
In 2013, Rodriguez directed Gravy, his first feature film co-written by him and Todd Harthan. He co-wrote (once more with Todd Harthan) and directed his second film Treehouse as part of Hulu's monthly horror film anthology Into The Dark, which premiered in March 2019.
Rodriguez played and appeared on Psych: The Movie, which he co-wrote with Psych's series creator Steve Franks, a popular film that premiered in December 2017. On February 14, 2019, Lassie Come Home, a sequel, was officially announced. It was shot in Vancouver in March and April of this year and debuted on NBCUniversal's subscription service Peacock on July 15, 2020. Lassie Come Home was the first project to have his full legal name, James Roday Rodriguez.
On ABC's A Million Little Things, Rodriguez is currently starring Gary Mendez. On September 22, 2021, the fourth season premiered.
Shawn Spencer appeared in Psych 3: This Is Gus, a film that was shot in June 2021. He is also the co-writer and co-executive producer. On November 18, 2021, Peacock's version was released.
Rodriguez will appear in the forthcoming animated film Night of the Dead, a sequel to George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, which will include Rodriguez.