James Loye

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James Loye is a British musical theatre/theatre actor best known for playing the male lead of Frodo in the Toronto and London production of Lord of the Rings the Musical.

Birth Name Origin Genre(s)
James Loye Chipping Sodbury, Bristol, United Kingdom Musical Theatre/Theatre

[edit] Career

James Loye, born July 30th 1982, did a three year course at the Welsh College of Music and Drama then moved to London and started doing provincial theatre until Lord of the Rings came along. He has performed as Cloten in Cymbeline and Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (both in Regents Park Open Air, NT Ian Charleson Award nomination), Prince Charming in Sleeping Beauty, Verukha in The Master and Margarita and Lysander in A Midsummer Nights Dream amongst others. In television, he has played Lieutenant David Mellis in the award winning BBC series Dunkirk, and his radio credits include The White Guard, Who Shot Shelly?, Moliere Imaginaire and King Lear'.