James Francis Ginty

Born James Francis Lawrence Ginty on December 4, 1980, at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Ginty's educational background includes time at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and the performing arts boarding school, Interlochen, located in northern Michigan. After Interlochen Ginty continued his acting training at the Juilliard School in New York City as a member of Group 32 with Jessica Chasten and Patrick Heusinger, but dropped out when Kathryn Bigelow cast him in her film K-19: The Widowmaker alongside Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson. Upon completion of the film Ginty began a career in regional theatre playing such roles as Romeo in Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet, Bertram in The Folger Shakespeare Theatre's production of All's Well That Ends Well, and Jacob Milne in Tom Stoppard's play Night and Day at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.