Lennie James

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Date of Birth: 1965-10-11 (age 61)
Nationality: United Kingdom

Mini Bio

Lennie Michael James (born 11 October 1965) is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Morgan Jones in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2018) and in its spin-off, Fear the Walking Dead (2018–2023), and starring as DCI Tony Gates in Line of Duty series one. Among James' more notable roles in television is Glen Boyle in the medical drama Critical on Sky 1. On American television, he portrayed the mysterious Robert Hawkins in the CBS series Jericho and Detective Joe Geddes in the AMC series Low Winter Sun. James created and starred in Sky Atlantic drama series Save Me which was released in 2018 to critical acclaim. Its second season, titled Save Me Too, won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Series 2021. In 2024, James starred as Barrington Jedidiah "Barry" Walker in the BBC TV series Mr Loverman, adapted from the novel of the same name by Bernardine Evaristo, for which James won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor at the 2025 British Academy Television Awards.

Backstage

"If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications."
"When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace."
"I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that."
"My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing."
"I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film."
"One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation."
"I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh."
"I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment."
"I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films."
"I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with."

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