James Marsters
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Birthplace:
Greenville, California, USA
An unlikely candidate to end up as immortal vampire Spike on Joss Whedon's popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in addition to reprising his role for the spin-off series Angel), former stage actor James Marsters got his start in the spotlight by performing in such Shakespeare classics as The Tempest before donning fangs to portray the conflicted bloodsucker who eventually falls for the one girl sworn to do battle with the undead. Marsters was born in the Northern California logging town of Greenville, later moving with his family and spending much of his childhood in nearby Modesto. From his grade-school stage debut as Eeyore in a production of Winnie the Pooh, the aspiring thespian knew that he had the talent and drive to become an actor. After studying his craft at New York's renowned Juilliard School of the Arts, he set his sites on Chicago, making a name for himself with impressive performances at the Goodman Theater before heading west to Los Angeles. The talented stage actor made a transition to the small screen when he made an appearance on the popular series Northern Exposure in 1992, with a few other minor television roles preceding his rise to fame on the wildly popular Buffy. Though his character, Spike, was originally supposed to be killed off during his first season on the show, he proved so popular that he was kept on and eventually made a regular. In addition to his appearances on Buffy and Angel, Marsters also found time to act in a pair of independent films entitled Winding Roads and Chance. While fans of his character on Buffy may have been saddened when that series wound to a close, they could take some solace in the fact that he would return as the mischievous Spike in the 2003-2004 season of successful spin-off Angel. Marsters' other small-screen roles included appearances in Strange Frequency and Andromeda, as well as voice work on the animated television series Spider-Man in 2003. In addition to his theater roles, Marsters maintained an entirely different stage persona as a member of the rock band Ghost of the Robot.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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100% | A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk with Me a While |
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— | 2018 |
100% | A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold |
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— | 2018 |
29% | New Life |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Dragon Warriors |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Three Inches |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | High Plains Invaders (Alien Attack)(Alien Western) |
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— | 2009 |
15% | Dragonball Evolution |
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$9.4M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Moonshot |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | The Capture of the Green River Killer |
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— | 2008 |
25% | P.S. I Love You |
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$53.6M | 2007 |
50% | Superman: Doomsday |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Shadow Puppets |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Cool Money |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Chance |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Strange Frequency 2 |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Buffy Musical: Once More with Singing |
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— | 2001 |
31% | House on Haunted Hill |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Winding Roads |
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— | 1999 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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87% |
Marvel's Runaways
2017-2019
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40% |
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012-2014
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65% |
Witches of East End
2013-2014
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No Score Yet |
Hawaii Five-0
2010-2020
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82% |
Warehouse 13
2009-2014
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54% |
Wedding Band
2012-2013
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93% |
Supernatural
2005
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No Score Yet |
Three Inches
2011
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81% |
Caprica
2010
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78% |
Smallville
2001-2011
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78% |
Lie to Me
2009-2011
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No Score Yet |
Numb3rs
2005-2010
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94% |
Torchwood
2007-2011
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No Score Yet |
Without a Trace
2002-2009
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10% |
The Mountain
2004-2005
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88% |
Angel
1999-2004
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83% |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997-2003
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No Score Yet |
Northern Exposure
1990-1995
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Quotes from James Marsters' Characters
Denise: | Mmm, oh he's delicious, isn't he? I can serve coffee on that ass. |
John: | Do you have to be so vulgar about men, like they're pieces of meat? |
Denise: | Sorry John, I forgot you're sensitive about your flat ass. |
John: | You know, Denise, that's why you're not married. |
Sharon: | [clears throat] |
John: | Women act like men, then they complain men don't want them. |
Denise: | Oh, is that why? Oh, ok, 'cause I thought it was something different. I thought it was because I thought I deserve the best. And he's out there, he's just with all the wrong women. And let me be clear, after centuries of men looking at my tits, instead of eyes, and pinching my ass, instead of shaking my hand, I now have the divine right to stare at a man's backside with vulgar, cheap, appreciation if I want to. |
Sharon: | Well said. |
Daniel: | I thought so. |