James Tarpey
Birthday: Born in 1994-01-01 in Greenwich, England
Deathday: Alive
James Tarpey is a British actor. He was born in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom. He is best known for playing a Young Peter Page in the 2013 comic science fiction movie The World's End and playing Willow on the British sitcom After Hours since 2015. James is a keen skateboarder and guitarist. James attended the BRIT school for performing arts. James made his stage debut at the Obie Theatre, London, playing the title role in Sarah Nivan's adaptation of Vernon God Little. In 2012 he was cast as the lead in a short film called Callum, he played the title character Callum. James was nominated and won the 2013 Best Actor Award for the Cannes in a van, independent film festival award, for the lead role of Callum He played a Young Peter Page in the 2013 comic science fiction movie The World's End. In 2014 he played Damien in the movie The Beat Beneath My Feet and Nathan in the British independent science fiction movie Robot Overlords. He played Ted in the 2015 movie Hector. From 2015 he played Willow on the British sitcom series After Hours.
TV Credits
Grace
Character: Andy Gilney
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most....
After Hours
Character: Willow Hannigan
An 18 year old music lover who's just had his heart broken for the first time turns for support to an internet radio station on a long boat run by two people with extravagant personalities....
Ragdoll
Character: Nick Hooper
Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll....
Movie Credits
Sundown
Character: Albert Thompson
When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family....
The World's End
Character: Young Peter
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival....
The Beat Beneath My Feet
Character: Damien
Teenage boy Tom lives with his single mum in a flat in South London. Into the flat below moves Steve, an anti-social, former Rock God who faked his death 8 years ago. Tom agrees not to reveal his secret on condition that he teaches him the dark arts of Rock Guitar....
Sebastian
Character: Ben
Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach....
Hector
Character: Ted
Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his Homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches...
Robot Overlords
Character: Nathan
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration....
The Drowning of Arthur Braxton
Character: Arthur Braxton Jr.
When an awkward, heavily bullied schoolboy from a dysfunctional home discovers a beautiful water nymph hiding in an abandoned Edwardian bathhouse, he must confront his own personal demons in order to save them both from the depraved custodian who keeps the enchanted waters alive with the ritual sacrifice of children....
Callum
Character: Callum
The first part of the Broken Hearted Youth triptych starring James Tarpey as Callum....
Responsible Child
Character: Nathan
Ray, a twelve-year-old boy, must confront the British legal system when he is accused of murder....
The Shadow in My Eye
Character: Reggie
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children....
A Little Italian Vacation
Character: Rome
A group of high school Seniors juggle between old loves and new flings on the shores of a beautiful Italian town....
Straight Faces
Character: Sean
Liam has news concerning a mutual friend, Sean. He's gay. None of the boys can believe it, nor can they believe the homophobic rant which follows and inevitably crumbles under its own weight....
Nipplejesus
Character: Young Thief
A bouncer finds out that guarding modern art is just as hazardous as controlling the ropes at a nightclub....