
James Remar
Born December 31, 1953 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
William James Remar (born December 31, 1953) is an American actor. Some of his best known film roles are as Ajax in The Warriors (1979), as homicidal maniac Albert Ganz in 48 Hrs. (1982), as Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club (1984), and as Lord Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997). He has had smaller roles in many other notable films, including Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Boys on the Side (1995), Judge Dredd (1995), Psycho (1998), What Lies Beneath (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), Ratatouille (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), RED (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Oppenheimer (2023), and Megalopolis (2024). He was originally cast as Corporal Hicks in Aliens (1986) before being replaced by Michael Biehn. On television, Remar's recurring roles include Richard Wright, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Samantha in Sex and the City (2001 - 2004), Harry Morgan in Dexter (2006 - 2013) and Dexter: Resurrection (2025 - present), the voice of Vilgax in Ben 10 (2009 - 2012), Tonraq in The Legend of Korra (2013 - 2014), and Peter Gambi in Black Lightning (2018 - 2021). He also voices Executor Hideo in the Destiny video game series. Remar has been married to Atsuko Remar since 1984. They have two children.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Oppenheimer

Ratatouille

Django Unchained

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

They Will Kill You

Transformers One

Blade: Trinity

The Girl Next Door

RED

48 Hrs.

The Warriors

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

Judge Dredd

What Lies Beneath

Megalopolis

Pineapple Express

Miracle on 34th Street

The Long Riders

Duplex

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Cruising

The Unborn

The Quest

White Fang

Psycho

Horns

The Phantom

Arena

Drugstore Cowboy

Boys on the Side

The Cotton Club

The Blackcoat's Daughter

USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Hellraiser: Inferno

Silence Like Glass

Renaissance Man

Lap Dance

Setup

The Noel Diary

The Saint

The Clan of the Cave Bear

2 Fast 2 Furious

Speed Kills

Band of the Hand

Wedlock

Wild Bill

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Guardian

Gun

The Dream Team

Fatal Instinct

Sharpshooter

Fear X

Can't Buy My Love

Ben 10: Omniverse

The Surgeon

American Meltdown

Papa Hemingway in Cuba

Betrayal

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

The Night Watchmen

The Warriors: The Way Home
TV Shows

Yellowstone

Dexter

American Dad!

CSI: Miami

Hawaii Five-0

The Vampire Diaries

NCIS: Los Angeles

The X-Files

Young Justice

Without a Trace

Gotham

Miami Vice

Battlestar Galactica

Hill Street Blues

Sex and the City

Numb3rs

Strong Medicine

Animal Kingdom

Magnum P.I.

Private Practice

The Legend of Korra

Third Watch

IT: Welcome to Derry

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Nash Bridges

The Unit

Black Lightning

The Equalizer

Tales from the Crypt

Walker, Texas Ranger

Franklin & Bash

Ben 10: Alien Force

The Twilight Zone

Dexter: Resurrection

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

Justice League Unlimited

The Hitchhiker

All's Fair

7th Heaven

Creepshow

The Batman

Pound Puppies

Jericho

Human Target

FlashForward

City on a Hill

The Shannara Chronicles

Code Black

Justice League

Eli Stone

The Movies That Made Us

Beware the Batman

Wilfred

The Huntress

North Shore

Thief

Peacemakers

Paul T. Goldman

Total Security

The Grid

The Mystic Warrior

State of Affairs

Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800
More Movies

Indecency

The Warriors: The Phenomenon

Rent-a-Cop

National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer

The Warriors: The Beginning

Dead Reckoning

Blink

Drugstore June

Eden

The Warriors: Battleground

Fatal Charm

The Base 2: Guilty as Charged

X-Men: First Class

Kojak: None So Blind

Decommissioned

Across the Moon

Feed

D.R.E.A.M. Team

All Superheroes Must Die

Robo Warriors

All You Ever Wished For

Rites of Passage

Confessions of a Hitman

Quiet Cool

The FP

Born Bad

Blowback

The Dog Lover

Partners

Dying on the Edge

Windwalker

Persecuted

Night Visions

The Tigress

Session Man

Unnatural

The Survivors Club

Inferno

Strangers

The Huntress

One Good Turn

On the Yard

The Christmas Hope

Glowzies

Psycho Path




