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James Jaysen Bryhan

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James Jaysen Bryhan
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James Bryhan is a grounded, cinematic screen actor specialising in crime, drama, and character-driven roles. He plays complex men with authority and edge - detectives, villains, gang lieutenants, blue-collar leaders, and characters with lived-in emotional weight. Recent work includes Ballistic (Vue Cinema / Amazon Prime), Shadow and Bone, and Dig Me No Grave - for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Midlands Movie Awards.

Equity member. Based Midlands / London. Member of The Actors Guild
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 5 nominations total

    Known for

    Ballistic (2024)
    Ballistic
    2.3
    • Butch 'The Butcher' Hawke
    • 2024
    Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, and Jessie Mei Li in Shadow and Bone (2021)
    Shadow and Bone
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Archivist
    Monica Dolan and Kelly Macdonald in Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)
    Typist Artist Pirate King
    5.9
    • Chef
    • 2022
    Dig Me No Grave (2025)
    Dig Me No Grave
    4.8
    • Pat Gunther
    • 2025

    Credits

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    Actor

    • War Pigs
      • The Mexican General
      • Pre-production
    • Porcelain Presence
      • Carson
      • Completed
    • Dig Me No Grave (2025)
      Dig Me No Grave
      4.8
      • Pat Gunther
      • 2025
    • Ballistic (2024)
      Ballistic
      2.3
      • Butch 'The Butcher' Hawke
      • 2024
    • Homework (2024)
      Homework
      8.4
      Short
      • Security guard
      • 2024
    • Spring Lakes (2023)
      Spring Lakes
      2.7
      • Marcus Wright
      • 2023
    • Exiled: The Chosen Ones (2022)
      Exiled: The Chosen Ones
      6.0
      • Kato Plasma
      • 2022
    • Monica Dolan and Kelly Macdonald in Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)
      Typist Artist Pirate King
      5.9
      • Chef
      • 2022
    • Rupture (2022)
      Rupture
      5.8
      • 'One Eyed' Sanford
      • 2022
    • Gurj Gill in Bluff (2022)
      Bluff
      5.7
      • Collins
      • 2022
    • Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, and Jessie Mei Li in Shadow and Bone (2021)
      Shadow and Bone
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Archivist
      • 2021
    • Corey Thompson, James Jaysen Bryhan, and Georgia Neath in Shame My Name (2019)
      Shame My Name
      7.8
      Short
      • Agon (as James Bryhan)
      • 2019
    • Abatement (2019)
      Abatement
      • PC Maxwell (as James Jay Bryhan)
      • 2019
    • Fate Can Wait (2019)
      Fate Can Wait
      TV Movie
      • The Stranger (as James Jay Bryhan)
      • 2019
    • James Jaysen Bryhan in Trick (2018)
      Trick
      7.4
      Short
      • Leon (as James Bryhan)
      • 2018
    • Memoirs of a Sikh Soldier (2018)
      Memoirs of a Sikh Soldier
      7.3
      Short
      • 2018
    • James Jaysen Bryhan, Nat Kennedy, Alan Story, Anca Vaida, Ian Whitehead, and Belinda Beasley in Taking to the boats (2018)
      Taking to the boats
      Short
      • Frank
      • 2018

    Producer

    • Lead Me to the Dark (2015)
      Lead Me to the Dark
      5.8
      • associate producer (as James Bryhan, Jaysen Bryhan)
      • 2015
    • The Burbs: The Online Horror Series (2015)
      The Burbs: The Online Horror Series
      8.7
      Podcast Series
      • supervising producer (as James Bryhan)
      • 2015
    • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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    Personal details

    • Official sites
      • Official Instagram
      • Official Site
    • Alternative names
      • J.J Bryhan
    • Height
      • 6′ (1.83 m)
    • Publicity listings
      • 1 Interview
      • 5 Articles
      • 1 Pictorial

    Did you know

    • Trivia
      James was considered for the role of Ramirez, played originally by Sean Connery in the Highlander reboot.
    • Nicknames
      • Nally
      • James Bryhan
      • James Jay Bryhan
      • Jay Bryhan-McNally
      • Jaysen James Bryhan
      • Jaysen Bryhan
      • Jason Bryhan
      • J.J Bryhan

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