James Lance plays Uncle
Vanya. His performance as Trent Crimm in Ted Lasso saw him nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2022.
His theatre credits include Of Kith and Kin (Sheffield Theatres, Bush Theatre); The Dead Monkey (Park Theatre); Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre); Celebrity Autobiography (Leicester Square); Ingredient X (Royal Court Theatre); Pythonesque (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Ordinary Dreams (Trafalgar Studios); Pirandello’s Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse); Christmas, A Place at the Table, The Back Room (Bush Theatre); Tape (New Venture Theatre); The Inland Sea (Wilton’s Musical Hall); Elegies for Angels, Ragin Queens (King’s Head Theatre) and Brilliant The Dinosaur (Chichester Festival Theatre). His television credits include Ted Lasso, The Canterville Ghost, Pennyworth, Agatha Raisin, Mount Pleasant, Hoff The Record, I Want My Wife Back, Houdini and Doyle, Babylon, Siblings, Toast of London, Black Mirror, Being Human, Boy Meets Girl, No Heroics, Top Buzzer, People Like Us, Saxondale, The Book Group, The Upper Hand, Sensitive Skin, Teachers, The Impressionists, The Famous Five, Smack the Pony and Absolutely Fabulous; and for film, Northern Soul, Marie Antoinette, Bel Ami, Hounded, Me Myself and Di, Late Night Shopping, The Search for John Gissing and Bronson.