James Frain

• Birthplace: Leeds, England
• Birthday: March 14, 1968

With his dark exotic looks, curly black hair and large piercing blue eyes, James Frain has been able to portray an array of characters of various ethnicities from an Irish terrorist in "Nothing Personal" (1995) to the mysterious Spanish ambassador in "Elizabeth" (1998) to the Sultan of Baghdad in the ABC miniseries "Arabian Nights" (1999). He has also excelled on stage in "She Stoops to Conquer" (staged by Sir Peter Hall) and "Zenobia" (at the Royal Shakespeare Company). But the intense, extremely private performer has made it clear in the rare…more