How Old Is James Cromwell? James Cromwell Birthday
James Cromwell was born on January 27, 1940 and is 84 years old now.
Birthday: January 27, 1940
How Old - Age: 84
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Is James Cromwell's father, John Cromwell, dead or alive?
James Cromwell's father, John Cromwell, died on September 26, 1979 as he was 91 years old.
Is James Cromwell's mother, Kay Johnson, dead or alive?
James Cromwell's mother, Kay Johnson, died on November 17, 1975 as she was 70 years old. Her cause of death was natural causes.
James Cromwell - Biography
James Oliver Cromwell is an American film and television actor. Some of his more notable films include Babe, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), The Sum of All Fears (2002), I, Robot (2004), The Artist (2011), and the television series Six Feet Under (2003-2005), 24 (2007), American Horror Story: Asylum (2012) and Halt and Catch Fire (2015).
Cromwell has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe (1995). He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in American Horror Story: Asylum (2012) and a Canadian Screen Award for his role in Still Mine (2013).
Cromwell was married to Ann Ulvestad from 1976 until their divorce in 1986; they had three children. Cromwell married his second wife, actress Julie Cobb, on May 29, 1986; they divorced in 2005. On January 1, 2014, Cromwell married actress Anna Stuart at the home of Stuart's former Another World co-star Charles Keating. He currently resides in Wawayanda, New York, dividing his time between New York and Los Angeles, California.
Cromwell is known for his tall stature; at 6 ft 6.5 in (1.99 m), he is the tallest actor nominated for an Academy Award. His son John is even taller, standing at a height of 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m). In the 2012 film Memorial Day, John played the young Bud Vogel, while James played him as a grandfather, and both Cromwells appear as the same character at different ages in American Horror Story: Asylum (2012) and the first season of Betrayal (2013).
Cromwell has long been an advocate of progressive causes, particularly regarding animal rights. He became a vegetarian in 1974 after seeing a stockyard in Texas and experiencing the "smell, terror and anxiety". He became vegan while playing the character of Farmer Hoggett in the 1995 film Babe. He frequently speaks out on issues regarding animal cruelty for PETA, largely on the treatment of pigs. In 2017, he was arrested during a PETA protest against SeaWorld's treatment of orca whales, at which he spoke about marine mammal's suffering and premature deaths.
