James Scott

James Scott (born 14 January 1979) is a British former actor from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He is best known for playing EJ DiMera on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives and Ethan Cambias on the ABC soap opera All My Children. Early life Scott was born in Newcastle upon Tyne to an English father and Scottish mother. The eldest of four children, he has two brothers and a sister. Initially schooled in Newcastle, Scott moved to an all-boys boarding school in Lancaster. After school, Scott moved to Edinburgh on a voyage of self-discovery. As a result of his mother's Scottish origins, Scott spent a lot of time in Scotland as a boy. 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. "They set me in motion, giving me the drive I needed to move forward. Soon it became apparent that I would need to move to London in order to truly focus on this as a career," Scott remembers. Career Scott began his career working in the music industry, and later started acting in community theatre.