James Frecheville had the leading role in the Amazon and BBC1’s miniseries Pursuit of Love and was seen in Director/Producer, Robert Connolly’s feature The Dry, which broke box office records in Australia. He was the supporting lead in Director David Ondíeks’ feature Zatopek, a biopic about Olympic champion athlete Emil Zátopek. James is also known for his lead role in feature Black 47 with Hugo Weaving which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and made its North American bow at TIFF. In this historical action drama, Frecheville plays an Irish Ranger fighting for the British Army during the Great Famine. He was also seen in the Netflix/BBC mystery thriller Requiem. He is also best known for his breakout performance in David Michod’s crime drama Animal Kingdom opposite Guy Pearce and Joel Edgerton, which critics called ‘outstanding’ and ‘a stunner.’
He next starred alongside Naomi Watts and Robin Wright in the provocative romance, Adore, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. James revisited the criminal underworld with Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, and director Michael Roskam, playing a small-time thief who robs the wrong bar in The Drop and starred as a trigger-happy meth addict in the indie film Mall, based on Eric Bogosian's novel. Frecheville played an overzealous student-turned-jailer in the feature The Stanford Prison Experiment, about the landmark 1971 research trial, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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