Aaron Stanford

Aaron Standford is an American actor who portrays Jim in AMC's Fear The Walking Dead.

Biography
Stanford was born in Westford, Massachusetts, the son of Judith (née Dupras), an English professor, and Don Stanford, who works in publishing. His brother David is a musician. Stanford attended Westford Academy in Westford Massachusetts for high school and met his first acting teacher there. He initially attended SUNY Purchase, but transferred to Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Arts. He graduated in 2000, magna cum laude.

Stanford's first major film role was in the low-budget indie film Tadpole, in which he portrays Oscar Grubman, a precocious 15-year-old with a crush on his stepmother, played by Sigourney Weaver. Stanford also starred as Anthony LaPaglia's son in the 2004 film Winter Solstice. Director Bryan Singer was impressed with Stanford's performance in Tadpole, and cast him as Pyro in the 2003 blockbuster X2, a sequel to X-Men. Both movies are based on the Marvel Comics series X-Men.

Stanford also starred in ABC's midseason replacement Traveler, a drama about two friends who believe they are set up by their good friend in order to make them look like the conspirators of a terrorist attack. In that same year, he starred in the New Hampshire-based comedy, Live Free or Die, playing a wannabe tough-guy criminal named John Rudgate. His character from the film The Hills Have Eyes appears in the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Zombies Mode. Stanford played the lead role of James Cole in the television adaptation of the movie 12 Monkeys, which premiered January 2015 on Syfy..