His birth name is Theodore Peter James Kinnerd Taptiklis. Not exactly marquee-friendly, eh? Better to just call him Theo James, a man whose time has come in the entertainment industry. With the hot Netflix series The Gentlemen, a TV version of Guy Ritchie’s hit movie that Ritchie has brought to the small screen, and with leftover goodwill and undeniable heat from Season 2 of The White Lotus, James never has been in higher demand.
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