Celebrity Biographies
James Marden
James Marsden seemed like a flash in the pan, destined for oblivion after a couple of hit teen movies and his work as Cyclops in the X-Men saga . However, he is working on it to continue in the sights of directors to the point that he dares to play roles of Dustin Hoffman himself.
Born on September 18, 1973, in Stillwater (Oklahoma), James Paul Marsden is the son of a university professor and an expert nutritionist. He began studying journalism at Oklahoma State University, but before finishing his studies he decided acting was his thing. “I knew I wanted to be an actor, but my friends didn’t understand me. They were all focused on finishing their careers and they saw me as a weirdo. Luckily my parents supported me, because if I hadn’t succeeded, I would continue living with them “Marsden explained to me in an interview.
The bet did not go badly for him, because in 1992 he was signed for the series La niñera and some other telefilm before making his film debut with the comedy No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn , where he was one of the sons of a guy who spent the day working. His first big break came as the lead in the teen horror film Disturbed Behavior , where he was a young man recently transferred to a small town who discovers that the other youngsters behave in an excessively exemplary way. It was also aimed at a younger audience Rumors that kill where his character decides with his roommates to spread a hoax about a new student and her boyfriend, with disastrous consequences.
In X-Men and its sequels, James Marsden played his best-remembered role, Scott Summer, Professor Xavier’s most advanced mutant student, capable of literally glaring, as he shot lightning bolts with his eyes. Although his character was quite secondary, and a mere companion of those who had more weight in the plot, the film was so successful that it made him a celebrity. He continued attached to the superhero genre with Superman Returns , where he was Richard White, the boy who rivaled Clark Kent to conquer Lois Lane. He also made a big impact with his work as a young lawyer in the Ally McBeal series .
Married in 2000, after five years of courtship with also actress Lisa Linde, the couple is the father of two children.
Passionate about musicals, he aspires to star in one on stage. At the moment he played a television presenter in Hairspray . He also had songs on Encantada. Giselle’s story , where he played a fairy tale prince. He appeared in titles such as 27 Dresses , Hop or A Death Funeral (American version) before emulating Dustin Hoffman himself in Perros de Paja (Straw Dogs) , a hard film in which he played a screenwriter confronted with the inhabitants of the hometown of his wife.