James Duval, full name James Edward Duval, is an American actor born on September 10, 1972 in Detroit. His name is best known for director Gregg Araki's films in the 1990s and for his role as the rabbit-suited Frank in Donnie Darko.
Araki movies and debut
Before acting, he was interested in music and studied classical piano. He first appeared in front of the camera as an extra in John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby. Gregg Araki noticed her in a coffee shop in Hollywood and cast her in his 1993 movie Totally F***ed Up. This collaboration evolved into what became known as Araki's "Teenage Apocalypse" trilogy: After Totally F***ed Up, he played Jordan White in The Doom Generation (1995) and Dark Smith in Nowhere (1997). These films made him one of the familiar faces of independent cinema.
He also appeared in mainstream cinema during the same period; In 1996, he starred in the blockbuster Independence Day.
subsequent years
In 2001, in Richard Kelly's first feature film, Donnie Darko, he played Frank, the mysterious rabbit-shaped figure seen by the title character; The film became a cult production over time. The same year, he received the best actor award at the American Indian Film Festival for his role as Hunter, a young man of mixed descent growing up in the Cherokee reservation, in Randy Redroad's The Doe Boy. In the following years, he continued to work mainly in independent cinema and television productions.
