An American actor, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. James is married to Kristina Loggia, with whom he has two children. He rehearsed with the South Coast Repertory Theater in Southern California before ending up in Hollywood in the early 1980s. He's known for Drugstore Cowboy (1989), The Last Winter (2006), Mildred Pierce (2011), and Certain Women (2016).