James Callis (born 4 June 1971) is a British actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Gaius Baltar in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, and Bridget Jones' gay best friend in Bridget Jones's Diary.
Callis was born and raised in London, where he attended Harrow School in north west London. His parents owned a bed-and-breakfast. Callis is a jew, the descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland. In 1990, he stud...
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James Callis (born 4 June 1971) is a British actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Gaius Baltar in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, and Bridget Jones' gay best friend in Bridget Jones's Diary.
Callis was born and raised in London, where he attended Harrow School in north west London. His parents owned a bed-and-breakfast. Callis is a jew, the descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland. In 1990, he studied for a BA degree in English and Related Literature at the University of York, where he was a member of Derwent College. At university he was a keen student actor, director and writer, sometimes also appearing in productions put on by friends at Cambridge University, including a production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. He graduated from York in 1993.
Callis went on to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from which he graduated in 1996, and in the same year he was awarded the Jack Tinker Award (Theatre Record Critic of the...
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