James Aaron Oliver

James was born on Coronado Island in California and raised in Oakland, CA. At 17 he hopped a freight train to Seattle where he was invited to attend the Cornish College of the Arts BFA Acting conservatory on scholarship. He pushed himself through the four year program in two and a half years and quickly developed a burgeoning career in the Pacific Northwest's most prestigious equity theatre companies (Intiman, ACT, Oregon Shakespeare Festival). While a company member at the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival he was offered a recurring role on NBC's Frasier and relocated to Los Angeles. He quickly hooked up with his first agent Ilene Feldman (IFA), legendary for signing Johnny Depp, Benecio Del Toro, Tim Roth and Ryan Gosling among many others. While on Feldman's coveted roster James landed several film and TV roles (24, Rescue Dawn, Our Fathers) but having worked as an actor non stop since he hopped the train at 17, James grew hungry to experience life from somewhere other than a fil