James Roday Rodriguez

James David Rodríguez was born on April 4, 1976. He is the son of Jim Rodríguez and Deborah Collins. Roday was born in San Antonio. He attended Taft High School. He studied theater at New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing, where he earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts. He has acted in several theatrical productions, which include "The Three Sisters," "Twelfth Night," "A Respectable Wedding," and "Severity's Mistress.

BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1997).

Co-artistic director of the theater company Red Dog Squadron, which he founded in 1999 with friend Brad Raider.

" He starred in the film Rolling Kansas (2003) and appeared in the 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) as Billy Prickett, and in the 2006 film Beerfest (2006).

Friend of Dana Ashbrook, whom he directed in his 2004 play "Sustenance." Ashbrook starred in Roday's favorite show Twin Peaks (1990) and guest-starred in the Psych (2006) episode that Roday wrote as an homage to "Twin Peaks." According to Roday, Ashbrook was instrumental in helping some of the pieces fall in place for the episode.

Roday and writing partners Todd Harthan and James DeMonaco wrote the screenplay for the film Skinwalkers (2006).

In People's 100 Most Beautiful People issue (2007).

Directed a play called "Greedy" for his theatre company, Red Dog Squadron, in Los Angeles, California. [January 2010]

Announced in July 2020 that he is taking his original last name back and will be credited as James Roday Rodriguez going forward. Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020) is his first credit under that name.