---
name: "James Frecheville"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-frecheville"
fi1m_id: "james-frecheville"
imdb_id: "nm3306943"
tmdb_id: 968863
wikidata_id: "Q2036280"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 April 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-24T11:26:15.876241+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# James Frecheville

## Identity

James Frecheville

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/james-frecheville
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** james-frecheville
- **IMDb ID:** nm3306943
- **TMDB ID:** 968863
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2036280
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frecheville, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2036280, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3306943/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/968863

Actor. Born 14 April 1991 in Melbourne, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 April 1991, Melbourne, Australia
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Liz Watts](https://film.one/person/liz-watts.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 64 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 66 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Thriller 3, Action 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $93m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frecheville, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2036280, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3306943/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/968863

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Animal Kingdom*](https://film.one/film/animal-kingdom.md) (84)
- **Disney+:** [*The Royal Hotel*](https://film.one/film/the-royal-hotel.md) (74)
- **HBO Max:** [*How to Make a Killing*](https://film.one/film/how-to-make-a-killing.md) (55)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on James Frecheville

> James Frecheville is good at playing people who give little away. We value the unease his reserve brings to crime dramas and thrillers, though it sometimes leaves us waiting for a clearer sense of the character.

In *Animal Kingdom* (2010), James Frecheville’s Joshua ‘J’ Cody is surrounded by relatives played with far more force than he allows himself. His uncertainty makes the criminal family strange, while his lack of charm stops this introduction to their life from looking inviting. We were frustrated by his reserve at times, because we could not get a clear enough sense of what J made of them. David Michôd gets something valuable from that discomfort, but there are stretches when Ben Mendelsohn and Jacki Weaver give us more reason to watch.

That was Frecheville’s feature debut, following an open casting call, and some initially assumed he was playing a version of himself. His subsequent work includes the international supporting role of Fitz in *The Drop* (2014), the lead as Martin Feeney in *Black '47* (2018), and Jack Nelson in *Peaky Blinders* (2022). *Black '47* required extensive physical and linguistic preparation.

*The Royal Hotel* (2023) puts his guarded manner to more precise use. As Teeth, a large, shy regular at the pub, he is one of the men Kitty Green asks us to assess without giving us enough information to feel certain. Michael Latham shoots the interior in brown half-light, while Leah Popple supplies cracked tiles and a bedroom lock that offers little protection. Their work makes the place feel ordinary and unsafe. Frecheville’s shyness offers a possible reassurance, but Green does not let us settle on it.

We rate *Animal Kingdom* more highly as a film, despite its slackening second half; *The Royal Hotel* makes good use of Frecheville before losing its nerve. Neither needs him to make the company appealing, and both benefit from his reluctance to do so. Start with Michôd’s film, with some patience for its quietest member of the family.

## Biography

James Frecheville is an Australian actor. He made his feature debut in the 2010 crime drama *Animal Kingdom* as Joshua 'J' Cody, the grandson drawn into a Melbourne criminal family.

Subsequent film roles include Matthew Townshend in *The Stanford Prison Experiment* (2015), Sullivan in *The Dry* (2021) and Teeth in *The Royal Hotel* (2023). He plays Lyle in the 2026 film *How to Make a Killing*. Television credits include Jack Nelson in *Peaky Blinders*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *How to Make a Killing* (2026), Fi1m 55, as Lyle — [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-make-a-killing.md)
- *The Running Man* (2025), Fi1m 60, as 'Donahue' — [page](https://film.one/film/the-running-man.md)
- *Masters of the Air* (2024), Fi1m 66, as Maj. Bill Veal — [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md)
- *The Royal Hotel* (2023), Fi1m 74, as Teeth — [page](https://film.one/film/the-royal-hotel.md)
- *Animal Kingdom* (2010), Fi1m 84, as Joshua 'J' Cody — [page](https://film.one/film/animal-kingdom.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *How to Make a Killing* (2026), as Lyle — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-make-a-killing.md)
- *The Running Man* (2025), as 'Donahue' — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-running-man.md)
- *Hangashore* (2025), as Jack
- *The Seven Sorrows of Mary* (2024), as Gabriel
- *Masters of the Air* (2024), series, as Maj. Bill Veal — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md)
- *The Royal Hotel* (2023), as Teeth — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-royal-hotel.md)
- *Zátopek* (2021), as Ron Clarke
- *Creation Stories* (2021), as Troy
- *The Dry* (2021), as Sullivan
- *Black '47* (2018), as Feeney
- *Requiem* (2018), series, as Nick Dean
- *Highly Functional* (2017), as Bobby
- *I.T.* (2016), as Ed Porter
- *The Stanford Prison Experiment* (2015), as Matthew Townshend
- *About Scout* (2015), as Sam
- *Transparent* (2014), series, as Patrick — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md)
- *The Drop* (2014), as Fitz
- *Mall* (2014), as Mal
- *Peaky Blinders* (2013), series, as Jack Nelson — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md)
- *We Keep On Dancing* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Adoration* (2013), as Tom
- *The First Time* (2012), as Ronny
- *New Girl* (2011), series, as Buster — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md)
- *Animal Kingdom* (2010), as Joshua 'J' Cody — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/animal-kingdom.md)
- *Yours Sincerely*, as Soldier

## Gallery

- ![James Frecheville](https://film.one/media/person/7000/gallery-c5b83ed5c782.jpg) James Frecheville — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/James_Frecheville.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![w:James Frecheville and w:Jessica Tovey at A Few Best Men film premiere In Sydney, Australia, 2012](https://film.one/media/person/7000/gallery-37e28c616b29.jpg) w:James Frecheville and w:Jessica Tovey at A Few Best Men film premiere In Sydney, Australia, 2012 — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/James_Frecheville_and_Jessica_Tovey_2012_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![w:James Frecheville and w:Jessica Tovey at A Few Best Men film premiere In Sydney, Australia, 2012](https://film.one/media/person/7000/gallery-ee7249d2f2c6.jpg) w:James Frecheville and w:Jessica Tovey at A Few Best Men film premiere In Sydney, Australia, 2012 — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/James_Frecheville_and_Jessica_Tovey_2012_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Maroš Hečko, film producer, writer and musician with James Frecheville, actor (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/7000/gallery-75533696b8d2.jpg) Maroš Hečko, film producer, writer and musician with James Frecheville, actor (2024) — Jozef Heriban, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Maro%C5%A1_He%C4%8Dko%2C_film_producer%2C_writer_and_musician_with_James_Frecheville%2C_actor.jpg/1280px-Maro%C5%A1_He%C4%8Dko%2C_film_producer%2C_writer_and_musician_with_James_Frecheville%2C_actor.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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