Nikki M. James

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Jun 03, 1981 (44 years old)

Nikki M. James

Known For

Daredevil: Born Again
TV Show 2025

Daredevil: Born Again

Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

Spoiler Alert
1h 50m
Movie 2022

Spoiler Alert

Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Andy Mientus sings Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon
1h 9m
Movie 2022

Andy Mientus sings Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon

Broadway and television star Andy Mientus bring Joni Mitchell’s iconic 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon to life in this filmed concert, captured last Winter right here in New Hope. Featuring performances by Christy Altomare (Anastasia), Tony Award winner Nikki M. James (The Book of Mormon), and more, and directed by Tony Award nominated Director Michael Arden. Music director Benjamin Rauhala and Mientus cover the album in full, stripping beloved songs such as “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Woodstock,” and “The Circle Game,” down to find the hymns inside these unquiet triumphs.

Checklist
1h 10m
Movie 2020

Checklist

Larry is a man who is desperate and completely out of options. He's willing to lay it all on the line to save his terminally ill sister.

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
0h 50m
Movie 2020

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.

Faraway Eyes
2h 1m
Movie 2020

Faraway Eyes

Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that he is in singles Purgatory, where he must find his soul mate in order to cross over to the other side. With limited time to find true love among other recently deceased single New Yorkers, Michael must navigate the new customs of a ghostly dating life... as if dating in life wasn't hard enough already.

Proven Innocent
0h 43m
TV Show 2019

Proven Innocent

Madeline Scott, a fierce and uncompromising lawyer with a hunger for justice, runs an underdog criminal defense firm. There is no one who understands the power of setting an innocent person free more than Madeline. At age 18, she was wrongfully convicted, along with her brother, in a sensational murder case. Madeline defends others as she fights to maintain her innocence and searches for the real killer in her own case.

BrainDead
0h 45m
TV Show 2016

BrainDead

A young fresh-faced Hill staffer gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.

Lucky Stiff
1h 18m
Movie 2014

Lucky Stiff

An English shoe salesman inherits 6 million dollars from a recently deceased uncle he has never met before, on the condition that he takes the uncle's corpse on a trip to Monte Carlo.

Biography

Nikki Michelle James (born June 3, 1981) is an American actress, director, and singer. James has performed in the popular stage musicals The Book of Mormon, Les Misérables, and Suffs, earning a Tony Award for The Book of Mormon. James was born to immigrant parents, a Vincentian father and a Haitian mother who settled in New Jersey in pursuit of the American dream. James grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, where she would graduate from Livingston High School. As a child, she sang and acted in church and in school performances. She was nominated for a Rising Star Award at Paper Mill Playhouse for her performance as Dolly Levi in high school. She later attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. James made her Broadway debut in the ill-fated The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and starred as Ottilie in the New York City Centre Encores! production of House of Flowers. She played Adela in the Off-Broadway run of Michael John LaChiusa's musical adaptation of Bernarda Alba and appeared in the Broadway cast of All Shook Up. James played Dorothy in the revival of The Wiz at La Jolla Playhouse and also starred in Romeo and Juliet and Caesar and Cleopatra at the Stratford Festival with Christopher Plummer. For her performance as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon, she won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. During that run, she took a leave in June 2012 to film a screen version of Lucky Stiff. From 2014 to January 2015, she played Éponine in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables. In July 2017, James starred in the New York City Centre Encores! staged concert of The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin. In 2024 she began starring as journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells in the musical Suffs. James was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nikki M. James, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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