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Greenville, California, USA
James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor and musician. Marsters first came to the attention of the general public playing the popular character Spike, a platinum-blond English vampire in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series, Angel from 1997 to 2004. Since then, he has gone on to play other science fiction roles, such as the alien…
Known for
- Abruptio — Les Hackel2024
- Isla Monstro — Reggie (voice)2024
- Curses! — Larry (voice)2023
- Casa Grande — Miller Dalton2023
- Leverage: Redemption — Carl2021
- The Order — Xavier2019
- A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold — Jason2018
- A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While — Jason2018
- DuckTales — Nosferatu (voice)2017
- Marvel's Runaways — Victor Stein2017
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Key facts
- Born
- James Wesley Marsters , ( 1962-08-20 ) August 20, 1962 (age 63) , Greenville, California , U.S.
- Other names
- David Gray Sam Majesters
- Education
- Allan Hancock College Juilliard School
- Occupations
- Actor voice actor musician singer comic book writer audiobook narrator
- Years active
- 1987–present
- Spouses
- Liane Davidson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1997 ) Patricia Jasmin Rahman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2021 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Greenville
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.jamesmarsters.com
- Image
- James Marsters Photo Op GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2025.jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
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- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- James Marsters
- date of birth
- 1962-08-20
- start of work period
- 1987-00-00
- birth name
- James Wesley Marsters
- social media followers
- 115210
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to James Marsters, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor, voice actor, musician, singer, comic book writer, and audiobook narrator.
He is best known for his role as the British punk vampire Spike in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel. Since then, he has played the alien supervillain Brainiac along with Professor Milton Fine and Brainiac 5 on the Superman-inspired series Smallville, Captain John Hart on Torchwood and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's Caprica.
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