James grew up in Virginia with three sisters. Her mother, Diane, is a drug abuse counselor and her biological father is a lawyer. Her parents split up and now her mother is married to a retired State Department employee. After her high school graduation, James attended New York University, but left to pursue for dreams as an actress.

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Career

Her first break came in 1999 when she appeared in the indie film Black and White. The film was originally rated NC-17, but was given an R rating after a sex scene was edited. In the early 2000s, she worked on the hit television series Law & Order and Law & Order:SVU. In 2005, she briefly appeared in the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers and earned her first starring role for the film Undiscovered. Between 2005 and 2007, she appeared in a number of indie films which included Confess, The King, and Neighborhood Watch. In 2007, she had a memorable scene in David Fincher's Zodiac.

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Partial filmography

• Zodiac (2007)
• Deceit (2006)
• Satellite (2006)
• Confess (2005)
• Undiscovered (2005)
• Broken Flowers (2005)
• The King (2005)
• Neighborhood Watch (2005)
• Strip Search (2004)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode, 2004)
• Uptown Girls (2003)
• Law & Order (1 episode, 2002)

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External links

• Pell James at the Internet Movie Database

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