James Napier Robertson
Birthday: Born in 1982-03-24 in Wellington, New Zealand
Deathday: Alive
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, James Napier Robertson began as an actor in theatre and television before writing and directing a number of short films in his early twenties, followed by his debut feature film, I’m Not Harry Jenson, starring Ian Mune, Ilona Rodgers and Marshall Napier. Garnering critical acclaim for his direction of performance, mood and dialogue, I’m Not Harry Jenson was released theatrically in New Zealand in 2009 and nominated for Best Picture at the 2009 New Zealand Film Awards, The Dominion Post calling it “The first New Zealand-made thriller in years that’s actually worthy of the name.” Napier Robertson’s fascination with dysfunctional, outsider characters and social disorientation underpinned the dramatic tension of the film, a theme he continued to explore in his next film, The Dark Horse, starring Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston, based on the true life story of bipolar chess player Genesis Potini. A long-time chess player himself, Napier Robertson played hundreds of games with Genesis while studying his struggles with mental illness and working on the script. Napier Robertson is currently writing and directing on Australian mini-series Rompter Stomper (Roadshow Productions), New Zealand mini-series The Panthers (Four Knights Film), and feature films The Seventh Symphony and The Ballerina (both produced by Anonymous Content). He is represented by ANONYMOUS CONTENT in Los Angeles.
TV Credits
Being Eve
Character:
Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents are divorced but live next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam. They broke up at the beginning of the second season, and she ends up with another boy named Sam Hooper, whom she had her first kiss with when they were kids....
The Tribe
Character: Jay
The Tribe is a New Zealand/British post-apocalyptic fictional TV series primarily aimed at teenagers. It is set in a near-future in which all adults have been wiped out by a deadly virus, leaving the children of the world to fend for themselves. The show's focus is on an unnamed city inhabited by tribes of children and teenagers. It was primarily filmed in and around Wellington, New Zealand. The series was created by Raymond Thompson and Harry Duffin and was developed and produced by the Cloud ...
Shortland Street
Character: Glen McNulty
The lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale....
Power Rangers
Character: Conner McKnight
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters....
Power Rangers
Character: Eric
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters....
Movie Credits
The Dark Horse
Character: Dave
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself....
I'm Not Harry Jenson
Character: Interviewer
Evoking the style and pace of the Noir genre, the film is essentially a murder mystery with Stanley (Gareth Reeves) the prime suspect. Stanley's success as a novelist has been largely due to his style where he writes from the first person perspective of the central characters, who are always the killers in real-life cases. Troubled with writer's block, his agent suggests a tramping trip "to clear his mind". However, when he wakes up on the first morning of his tramp, he finds his fellow tramper...
Power Rangers Dino Thunder: Day of the Dino
Character: Conner McKnight
Because the world is never out of danger, three Reefside High students must rise up to meet their destiny head-on. While on a fossil-finding field trip, Conner, Kira and Ethan fall into a sinkhole and discover powerful Dino Gems that give them each awesome super abilities. But alarming evil is afoot as this new crew is confronted by terrifying Tyranodrones, Kira's sudden disappearance and Mesogog, a reptilian rogue and his robotic wrongdoers. Once Mesogog has unleashed his diabolical Zords, the ...
Power Rangers Dino Thunder: Collision Course
Character: Conner McKnight
Reefside is in for radical change when a strange intergalactic meteor plunges to earth transforming the Power Rangers' personalities. Conner turns intellectual, Ethan gets into sports, and Kira develops a strong sense of fashion she's never known! While Dr. Oliver is freed from fossilization, he is stuck in morphed form, and Evil White Ranger and Mesogog unleash more treacherous trickery. The Power Rangers will have to rock with amped ATVs and super Dino-powered teamwork!...