Celebrity Biographies
Jim Sturgess
Sweet, humble, nice. This is how his colleagues describe this young actor. With his sympathy, he has already made actresses such as Evan Rachel Wood, Kirsten Dunst and Anne Hathaway fall in love on the big screen. Musical, drama or science fiction are some of the genres in which he has already worked.
The son of Peter JS Sturgess and Jane O. (Martin), he was born on May 16, 1978 in London, UK, but grew up and lived in Surrey. He until he left for Manchester, where he studied at the School of Communications, Music and Acting at the University of Salford. He graduated in 1999. Music had always been at the top of the actor’s mind but while studying he met a group of young actors and film directors who made him try his hand at acting. During the first years he devoted himself exclusively to British productions, mostly TV movies like Hawk (2001) or the series The Quest .
In 2007 he falls into Across the Universe through music, but as he says himself: “I thought it would be my first and only film.” The musical, a tribute to the songs of the Beatles, tells the story of a boy who falls in love with a young American woman upon his arrival in the United States in the 1960s. And what he would think would be an end to the world. of acting was nothing more than a perfect showcase in which to show off his talents as a young romantic capable of making anyone fall in love, as he will demonstrate in his subsequent works.
His filmography continued with The Boleyn Sisters (2008), a historical drama where he shared the bill with actresses Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson . Although she played a very secondary role, her sweet boy’s face draws the viewer’s attention.
Hollywood fame came to him with his portrayal of Ben Campbell in 21: Blackjack (2008), in which he and other college classmates get into trouble playing cards in Las Vegas. Despite sharing the screen with a monster of interpretation such as Kevin Spacey , the young actor came out on top of his leading role.
In 2010 Sturgess landed the lead role in the film Freedom Walk , by veteran director Peter Weir . Based on true events, it told the story of a group of prisoners who flee from the Siberian gulag where they are being held and start a dangerous and long journey to India. The film also stars Ed Harris , Colin Farrell or Saoirse Ronan , among others.
The young British actor established himself the following year in the romantic genre thanks to the tragicomedy One Day (Always the same day) , in which he stars alongside Anne Hathaway . It is a love story between two very different young people who share a strong friendship. The film is narrated through every July 15 for twenty years. His role in this film is the best known among young audiences, especially the great fans of the genre, and it is not for less since the role of a rebel in love with him comes to his hair.
A year later he took part in the super but unsuccessful production El Atlas de las Nubes (2012), directed by the Wachowski brothers, famous for being the creators of the world of The Matrix . His latest works have been the film that mixes science fiction and romanticism, A love between two worlds (2012), where he falls in love and fights for the love of Kirsten Dunst despite the physical laws and the limits of reality that separate them, and the Italian film The Best Offer (2013), winner of several European awards and praised by international critics.
Despite having known success and having worked with well-known directors and actors from the world of Hollywood, this young actor does not forget his British roots and when asked why he has not yet settled in the city of big stars, he answers very sincerely. : “I always come back to London, it will always be my home”.