James Roday

Biography

James Roday is a multihyphenate who is best known for his eight-year run as Shawn Spencer on the USA hit comedy "Psych," which also spawned a "Psych" film that aired in December 2017 to huge ratings success. He currently stars on ABC's drama series "A Million Little Things."

Roday has written pilots for USA, Fox and SyFy, and has directed shows such as Fox's "The Resident" and "Rosewood," and CBS's "Battle Creek," for Vince Gilligan and David Shore; as well as writing and directing multiple episodes of "Psych" for USA.

His most recent features include "The Buddy Games," for writer/director Josh Duhamel, and "The Hollywood Hills," for writer/director Rhys Wakefield. Past credits include the indie festival hit comedy "Pushing Dead" about an HIV+ patient surviving his illness in the modern-day healthcare system; "Christmas Eve" with Patrick Stewart and Cheryl Hines; and Brian Klugman's "Baby, Baby, Baby." His feature directing debut, "Gravy," starring Jimmi Simpson and Michael Weston, is now a cult classic horror-comedy film seen around the world.

Roday recently directed his own script, "Treehouse," as part of Blumhouse Productions' anthology series for Hulu. He also wrote and directed the USA pilot "Shoot the Moon," starring Mandy Moore and Sam Huntington.

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