Sturgess, Jim

James Anthony Sturgess (born 16 May 1978) is an English actor and singer-songwriter. His first major role was as Jude in the musical romance drama film Across the Universe (2007). He played the male lead role of Ben Campbell in 21 (2008), Gavin Kossef in Crossing Over (2009), The Way Back (2010), and co-starred in the epic science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012). Other credits include Stonehearst Asylum (2014), Kidnapping Freddy Heineken and London Fields (both in 2015), Close to the Enemy and Feed the Beast (both in 2016), Geostorm (2017), JT LeRoy (2018), Berlin, I Love You (2019), The Other Me and Alone Together (both in 2022). He also voiced Soren in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) and starred in One Day (2011) opposite Anne Hathaway.