James Scott (born 14 January 1979)[2] is a British former actor from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

As a result of his mother's Scottish origins, Scott spent a lot of time in Scotland as a boy.

[2] His first summer there he managed to get a job working at the famous "Gilded Balloon Theatre", one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's best-known venues, established by Karen Koren in 1986 in Edinburgh's Cowgate and worked with such actors/comedians as Stephen Fry, Ben Elton, and Eddie Izzard.

[4] Scott began his career working in the music industry, and later started acting in community theatre.

During a modelling trip to Los Angeles, he went to an acting class at the Ivana Chubbuck studio in Hollywood.

[5] On 27 September 2015, he reprised his role as EJ DiMera of Days of Our Lives on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, reuniting with Alison Sweeney (as Sami Brady) in honour of Nujeen Mustafa and the Syrian refugee crises.