James Roday Movies and Career Information

James David Rodríguez (born April 4, 1976) is an American actor better known by his stage name James Roday (pronounced /roʊˈdeɪ/). He currently stars in the USA Network television series Psych as fake psychic Shawn Spencer. Roday was born in San Antonio, Texas. He is the child of Jim Rodríguez, who worked for Boardwalk Auto Group. He attended Taft High School in San Antonio. At New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing, he studied theater and earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts. He is co-artistic director of Red Dog Squadron, a Los Angeles theatre company he co-founded with Brad Raider. Maggie Lawson and Roday are currently in a relationship. They started dating the same year Psych began. Roday has acted in various theatrical productions, including Three Sisters, Twelfth Night as Sebastian, A Respectable Wedding, Severity's Mistress, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago with his theatre company, Red Dog Squadron. He has also starred in the 2003 film Rolling Kansas and appeared in the 2005 film adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard as Billy Prickett, and in the 2006 film Beerfest. Behind the scenes, he and writing partners Todd Harthan and James DeMonaco wrote the screenplay for