James Lesure Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended the Air Force Preparatory Academy before attending USC
• Was an amateur boxer for a semester during college
• Portrayed Macduff in a Los Angeles theater company's production of Macbeth
• An avid basketball fan, he played in the NBA Entertainment League and was voted the league's MVP for 2005-06
• He also portrayed a former basketball player on the sitcom Mr
• Sunshine
• Though he starred on the NBC drama Las Vegas (2003-08), a series set in a casino, he told buddytv
• com in a 2007 interview that he was not a gambling man
• In a 2011 TV Guide online interview, he explained that he was often cast against type as confident characters, and that in real life he was "nerdy and klutzy
• " Has worked with the HollyRod Foundation, which helps people cope with Parkinson's disease, and received the Celebrity Honoree and Distinguished Support Awards from the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America
• Cofounded a company called What's Your Blend?, which made T-shirts spotlighting the concepts of diversity and multiculturlism