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| Born | James Huang January 11, 1977 Queens, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University |
| Occupation | television actor |
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James Huang (born January 11, 1977) is an American film and television actor and producer/director. [1]
James Huang | |
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| Born | James Huang January 11, 1977 Queens, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University |
| Occupation | television actor |
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James Huang (born January 11, 1977) is an American film and television actor and producer/director. [1]
Huang (pronounced: "Hwong") was born in Queens, New York City, the youngest of ten children (five boys/five girls). He graduated from West Windsor - Plainsboro High School South in 1994. He attended Rutgers University – New Brunswick on a scholarship, majoring in theater and cinema graduating in 1998. He obtained a photography degree from UCLA in 2020. At the end of 2020 he relocated to Melbourne, Australia and launched his studio for actors The Hollywood Actor Lab. He has continued a successful acting career in Australia since.
James works as an actor, photographer and filmmaker and runs his own studio for actors, The Hollywood Actor Lab in Melbourne, Australia. After 30 years of experience, he teaches local actors regular acting classes and provides them with filmmaking and photography.
Huang's first job after graduating from Rutgers was as a resident actor in the George Street Playhouse. After starting his career in New York, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a permanent film/television career. He worked in several areas of film and television.
He has acted in over one hundred commercial, film and television roles between New York, Los Angeles and Australia. Highlights include a fight scene with Lost star Matthew Fox, Castle , The Unit , Shark , Las Vegas , NCIS , Law & Order , Boldly Going Nowhere , Private Practice , Law & Order: Los Angeles , and recurring roles in ABC's Women's Murder Club and TNT's Rizzoli & Isles , General Hospital , and ‘Young Rock’. He has also appeared in sitcoms including Will & Grace and The New Adventures of Old Christine . Feature film roles include the DreamWorks feature film, Eagle Eye and the Disney/Bruckheimer feature film G-Force , and the 2010 alien invasion film Skyline . He plays Marcus, alongside Bill Paxton, in the 2014 film Nightcrawler , starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Recent guest starring television appearances include "Castle (TV series)" on ABC and "NCIS: Los Angeles" on CBS.
As a director and producer, he won many film festival awards including a Prism Award in 2007 for the MTV documentary True Life: I'm Addicted to Crystal Meth. [2] He has written, produced and directed independent narrative films that have played in festivals across the country through his production company Yellow Sun Films.
James wrote and directed the feature film “Starting from Scratch” and landed a distribution deal with MouseTrap Films through their platform Film Festival Flix. The dramatic comedy won Best Comedy at the Asians on Film Festival, won Best Editing and the Vanguard Award for Best Ensemble Cast from the Independent Filmmakers Showcase Los Angeles, an Honorable Mention for Best Film at the New Jersey Film Festival, and won top honors for Best Feature Film at the DisOrient Film Festival. [3]
He immediately continued acting post Covid lockdown in Australia where he has worked steadily in several television shows and commercials including ‘Young Rock’, ‘Fisk’, ‘LaBrea’, ‘Joe Vs. Carole’, and an upcoming Netflix series.
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