James Freedson-Jackson
James Freedson-Jackson was born in California, but has lived in the New York area for most of his life. Obsessed with Michael Jackson and from a very early age, James could Moonwalk practically before he could walk. This led him to the famed Alvin Ailey School pre-professional program in New York, where he worked for many years to become as accomplished a dancer, as he is an actor. One of the biggest thrills of James' life was being chosen by Bruno Mars to join him in opening the 2014 Super Bowl Halftime Show, as one of twelve kids who sang the beginning of 'Billionaire' in front of millions of viewers. And getting to meet Bruno Mars! James made his film debut in 2015 in Jon Watts' acclaimed thriller Cop Car, co-starring with Kevin Bacon, for which he received a Saturn Award Nomination for "Best Performance by a Younger Actor". His next starring role, in The Strange Ones by Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff, opposite Alex Pettyfer, won him the 2017 SXSW Film Festival award for "Best Breakthrough Performance". On TV he was seen in the Marvel/Netflix series Jessica Jones (Episodes 8 and 9) as Young Kilgrave: the adolescent precursor to David Tennant's arch villain, and was featured on NBC's The Blacklist (The Kenyon Family) as a young boy with a with a dark past. His most recent film 18 to Party, by Jeff Roda, recently premiered at the Chelsea Film Festival, and is slated for wider release later this year. Onstage, James has played a hungry orphan in Oliver! at the Papermill Playhouse; Winthrop in The Music Man, and has lent his voice to a number of voice-overs. James grew up backstage in the theatre; his dad is a producer, and from an early age James loved tagging along to rehearsals, watching the performers, and hanging around backstage. He learned to do magic tricks and some celebrity impersonations, and is pretty good at both! He loves to ski, bike, hike, and shoot baskets. He's great with babies and animals, and has probably spent more time with his twin sister, Anita than with anyone else.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Actor
- 4 on MovieCove · 6 credits in all
Known for
What are James Freedson-Jackson's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 3
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 2
Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
- Heroas Travis in Cop Car (2015)
- Heroas Sam in The Strange Ones (2017)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch James Freedson-Jackson's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 4 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (2).
Subscription and free streaming for James Freedson-Jackson's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
6 credits, 4 with a MovieCove page.
Act One(2026)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Lemonade Blessing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
18 to Party (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Strange Ones(2017)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Jessica Jones(2015)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
Cop Car(2015)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Career shape
Star power in the 76th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 6 titles from 2015 to 2026.
Film career
- 2015Screen debut· Cop Car
How do James Freedson-Jackson's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 51st percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 55th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
1 of their 4 titles is Divisive.
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.