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James Ronald Gordon Copeland (born 1947), known professionally as James Cosmo, is a Scottish actor. Known for his character actor, he has played supporting roles in films such as Highlander (1986), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Troy (2004), (2005), Ben-Hur (2016), and Wonder Woman (2017). On television, he appeared as Father Kellan Ashby on the third season of Sons of Anarchy (2010), Jeor Mormont on HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2013), Farder Coram in the BBC series His Dark Materials (2019), and Luka Gocharov on the third season of Amazon Prime's Jack Ryan (2022). Cosmo appeared as a contestant on the nineteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2017, finishing in fourth place.
From 2011–2013, Cosmo portrayed Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and father of Jorah Mormont (played by Iain Glen), in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He was involved in the filming of the thriller Breakdown in which he appeared alongside Craig Fairbrass, Bruce Payne, Emmett Scanlan, Olivia Grant and Tamer Hassan. He played the antagonist in the Indian film, Jagame Thandhiram, which released in 2021. He played a Russian intelligence officer named Luka Gocharov in season 3 of the Amazon Video show Jack Ryan.
He is a patron of the charity Chance for Childhood.
| 1990 | |
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| AKA Slipp Jimmy fri (Original title) | |
| Short film | |
| George Bergeron | |
| 2010 | |
| Short film | |
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| AKA Estranged (Original title) | |
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| Tamil film | |
| Episode: "The Vision" | |||
| Mini series, 6 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Nurinder" | |||
| 2 episodes: "The Assembly Ball" and "Journey's End" | |||
| Episode: "A Pretty Flat Kind of Existence" | |||
| Episode: "Dover and the Deadly Poison Pen Letters" | |||
| Splash O.K. | Hamish MacPherson | Television film | |
| Episode: "Single or Return" | |||
| Episode: "In at the Death" | |||
| Episode: "A Woman or an Epitaph" | |||
| Episode: "Sovereign's Company" | |||
| Episode: "Battle at Tematangi" | |||
| Episode: "Reflections in the Water" | |||
| Episode: "Element of Risk" | |||
| Episode: "A Tale of Two Cities" | |||
| 1972 | Sutherland's Law | Ian Campbell | Television film |
| Cliff Dow | |||
| Episode: "Professional" | |||
| Episode: "The Sea" | |||
| 21 episodes | |||
| Episode: "The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil" | |||
| Episode: "The Wallace" | |||
| Episode: "Target North" | |||
| Episode: "The Chosen" | |||
| 3 episodes | |||
| Episode: "The Dorothy Letters" | |||
| Mini series, 5 episodes | |||
| 3 episodes | |||
| Episode: "New Standards" | |||
| Episode: "Hard Men" | |||
| Mini series, episode: "Uncle Ebenezer" | |||
| 29 episodes | |||
| 13 episodes | |||
| Episode: "To Honour and Obey" | |||
| Episode: "Runner" | |||
| Episode: "The Thirteenth Reunion" | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Semper Fidelis" | |||
| Episode: "A Dear Green Place" | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| 42 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Senior Citizen Caine" | |||
| Episode: "Death on the Mountain" | |||
| Episode: "The Legend of Das Geisterschloss" | |||
| 2 episodes: "Romance Plughole" and "The Pulses Quicken" | |||
| The Master of Ballantrae | Horseman (uncredited) | Television film | |
| Episode: "Daddy's Girls" | |||
| Episode: "Down and Under" | |||
| Operation Julie | Longfellow | Television film | |
| 2 episodes: "Under Plain Cover" and "Fit" | |||
| 6 episodes | |||
| Mini series, episode: "#1.6" | |||
| Episode: "Supergran Snookered" | |||
| 3 episodes | |||
| Mini series, episode: "#1.1" | |||
| 3 episodes: "" | |||
| AKA Crossbow (Original title). Episode: "Silver Rider" | |||
| Mini series, 3 episodes | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Into Africa" | |||
| Episode: "A Grand in the Hand" | |||
| Episode: "Seen to Be Done" | |||
| James Smithson | Television film | ||
| Episode: "Old Ways and New" | |||
| Episode: "Getting Even" | |||
| Treasure Island | Redruth | Television film | |
| Mini series, 8 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Hard Times, Hard Men" | |||
| Episode: "#2.4" | |||
| Episode: "Nowt But a Prank" | |||
| Episode: "Lesson" | |||
| Episode: "Pig Boy" | |||
| Episode: "Manoeuvre 11" | |||
| Episode: "Cat in Hell" | |||
| Episode: "#3.5" | |||
| Episode: "Dead Water" | |||
| Episode: "Sin Bin" | |||
| 13 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Dead Men Don't Wear Bunnets" | |||
| Mini series, 5 episodes | |||
| Mini series, 3 episodes | |||
| 9 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Golden Wedding" | |||
| Mini series, 2 episodes: "Parts 1 & 2" | |||
| Episode: "Heart and Sole" | |||
| Episode: "Haunted" | |||
| Split Second | Donald Paterson | Television film | |
| Mini series, 2 episodes: "#1.4" and "#1.10" | |||
| Mini series, episode: "The Centurion" | |||
| Episode: "Predators" | |||
| McNab | Television film | ||
| 2 episodes: "The Hanging Garden" and "Mortal Causes" | |||
| Documentary series, episode: "Tchaikovsky" | |||
| Mini series, 4 episodes | |||
| Episode: "The Axeman Cometh" | |||
| Impact Earth | Brenden Kelly | Television film | |
| Mini series, episode: "Part 1: The Colour of Magic" | |||
| Episode: "Lancelot and Guinevere" | |||
| The Narnia Code | Narrator | Television film | |
| Episode: "Sucker Punch" | |||
| Episode: "Revelation Zero: Part 2" | |||
| 8 episodes | |||
| One Night in Emergency | Television film | ||
| Nick | |||
| 12 episodes | |||
| Episode: "" | |||
| Episode: "Murder on the Plantation" | |||
| Episode: "Started Early, Took My Dog" | |||
| Mini series, episode: "#1.1" | |||
| Episode: "Fuck Da Babylon" (Pilot) | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| Mini series, episodes 1 & 2 | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| Series 19 finalist and third runner-up, 19 episodes | |||
| Mini series, 5 episodes | |||
| Documentary series, 8 episodes | |||
| 9 episodes | |||
| 8 episodes | |||
| Episode: 'Open Wide, O Earth' | |||
| 6 episodes | |||
| Bill Bradwell | |||
| 8 episodes | |||
| Documentary series, 11 episodes | |||
| Mini series, 4 episodes | |||
| 6 episodes | |||
| 3 episodes | |||
| 2025 | Hostage | Max Dalton | 3 episodes |
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