James' Noteworthy Accomplishments



Acting credits:


Co-starred in the independent short film, "The Way We Weren't" in 2009.

Joins the cast of Days of Our Lives as EJ "Wells" DiMera on May 30, 2006. (Current role)

Joins the cast of All My Children as Ethan Ramsey (later Ethan Cambias) on August 10, 2004.  James played Ethan until February 20, 2006.

Appeared on Eastenders.  Date unknown.

Awards:


Named "Outstanding Lead Actor"   and "Most Attractive Male Star"; EJ named "Favorite On-Screen Couple or Duo" along with Sami for Days of Our Lives in  soapcentral.com's 2010 Dankies Finals.

Winner of SOW's "Sexiest Men in Daytime" Poll for Days of Our Lives.  February 2, 2010 issue.  http://soapoperadigest.com/news/breaking/

Listed in Nelson Branco's "Soapywood - The Agency" article as one of 25 actors in Soaps who have the potential to make it in Hollywood.  January 2010.

Named "Best Performance in a Storyline-Male" in tvguide.ca's 2009 Worthy and Worthless List.  (tvguide.ca/soaps/features)

Named Top Male Performer for 2009 (daysofourlives.about.com)

Runner up along with co-star Alison Sweeney for "hottest actor and hottest actress in a Dramatic Series" in soaps.com's 2009 Sudzies Awards.

Named  "Most Attractive Male Star" and "Outstanding Lead Actor";  EJ named "Favorite On-Screen Couple or Duo" with Sami for Days of Our Lives in the 2009 soapcentral.com Dankie finals.

Named Favorite Actor for Days ELEVEN weeks in a row in SOD's HOTN poll. (March 17, 2009 - May 26, 2009 issues).

Listed at #23 in the 2008  (amount of appearances an actor has made on a soap in a year).  James was also the only cast member  from Days of Our Lives to make the list.

Named the number two  "Soaps Sexiest Man" when TV Guide Network aired its "Soaps Sexiest Men" on July 20, 2008.



Daytime Emmys:


Soapcentral.com panelists predict the 2010 Emmy winners.  James received the Consensus pick for "Outstanding Lead Actor".  (Soapcentral's Emmy predictions)

Nominated for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" (2010).  James is the youngest actor to date to be nominated in this category.  If he wins he will be the first on Days to win in this category since Macdonald Carey won in 1975.

Pre-Nomination, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" (2010).

Presented the award ofr "Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team" at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmys along with Jay Kenneth Johnson (Philip,Days). (8/30/09).

Pre-Nomination, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" 2008).

Presented at the 34th Daytime Emmy's with Lauren Koslow (Kate, Days). (2007, soaps.com).


Episode Rankings:


Ranked number one as of 8/31/2010 and has appeared as EJ DiMera in 123 episodes on Days of Our Lives.  (jason47.com)

Ranked number two in 2009 and appeared as EJ DiMera in 192 episodes on Days of Our Lives. (jason47.com).

Ranked number one in 2008 for number of appearances in an episode on Days of Our Lives.  James appeared as EJ DiMera 165 times and as Santo DiMira twice giving him a total of 166 appearances. (jason47.com)

Ranked number two in 2007 for the number of appearances in an episode on Days of Our Lives.  James appeared as EJ DiMera 169 times and as Santo DiMera 19 times.  Total amount of appearances was 175. (jason47.com)

Ranked number 17 in 2006 for the number of episodes appeared in on Days of Our Lives.  James appeared as EJ 94 times. (jason47.com)

For a complete list of James' episode rankings click here.


SoapHunks:


James has 18 nominations and 13 wins at soaphunks.net.  He has also won the Soaphunks Adonis contest FOUR years in a row (2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010).  In 2010, he won with 58.2% of the vote.  Visit James' page at soaphunks.net.


James, we're all mighty proud of you and ALL your accomplishments!!  Keep up the great work!!!