James Speakman appeared on Coronation Street in November 2016 as a suspicious-looking Man caught peering through the front window of 1 Coronation Street.
Credited for three separate minor roles on Emmerdale, he has also appeared in the short films The Merciless Beauty, In Transit, Stapled, Lance Pushes On and Milk, along with the 2016 Netflix film War Machine.
On stage he has appeared in productions of The Bastard, The Ash Girl, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the UK tour of The Business of Murder.