James Sobol Kelly

James Sobol Kelly is an American actor known for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018), FBI: International (2021), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), Borg vs. McEnroe (2017), and The Two Faces of January (2014). Born and raised in Chicago to Rosemary (née Kelly) Sobol, a musician, artist, and native of the city's South Side; and John Zlatan Sobol, a barber who emigrated to the U.S. from Croatia, Kelly has four sisters and two brothers. He began acting when he was cast as Lucky in a Chicago production of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, and later graduated from the three year acting course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In addition to his screen work, Kelly has performed for many years with the groundbreaking immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, as well as in many of the plays of Shakespeare. By: Augustina Seymour