James Francis Ginty

Born James Francis Lawrence Ginty on December 4, 1980, at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Ginty holds dual citizenship with the United States and Ireland, and is the only son of actor/director Robert Ginty and actress Francine Tacker who met while starring on the late 1970s television series, The Paper Chase, alongside John Houseman. Ginty's educational background includes time at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and the performing arts boarding school, Interlochen, located in northern Michigan. After Interlochen Ginty continued his acting training at the Juilliard School in New York City as a member of Group 32 with Jessica Chastain, but dropped out when Kathryn Bigelow cast him in her film K-19: The Widowmaker alongside Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson. Upon completion of the film Ginty began a career in regional theatre playing such roles as Romeo in Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet, Bertram in The Folger Shakespeare