Daniel Ilija James

Daniel James is an Australian actor born in Brisbane, Queensland. He has over 20 years screen experience on both Australian and International productions, including feature films, television series, music videos, television commercials and short films. Daniel won the 2021 Nominee Best Actor Award for ASIN (Australian Industry Network) for his performance as the lead antagonist in the drama short film "Seven Times". Daniel discovered his passion for acting in his mid-twenties, when he worked on Shaun Cassidy and Ron Koslow's Fox TV series "ROAR". Early in his acting career he worked on the TV series Flipper, The Lost World TV series and feature films Chameleon I and II 'Death Match', Waste, Swimming Upstream and Green Sails. Another one of Daniel's early productions was for the role as biochemist "Stevie Best" in the Australian crime drama feature film "Rise". Daniel's recent credits include work on short films (Seven Times, Doreen's Dead, Bite Club, Sin Bin, Velvet Boulevard, Patched, Brother's Keeper) just to name a few and feature films (Patched, The Lost One, Blackwater, Space/Time, Battalion, Alfa Maschi, Crisis Point and Rise) and International TV series Deadly Women. Daniel is also a qualified personal trainer, boxing fitness instructor and transformational somatic breath-work coach. He enjoys keeping fit and living a healthy lifestyle.