Age: 32
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Stephan James (born December 16, 1993) is a Canadian actor. After starring in a string of television series as a teenager, he rose to prominence upon winning a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for his role as track and field sprinter Jesse Owens in the 2016 film Race. In 2018, he starred in Barry Jenkins' acclaimed drama film If Beale Street Could Talk, based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name. Also that year, he portrayed Walter Cruz in the Amazon series Homecoming, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
His brothers sold him into slavery. Egypt made him a prince. Forgiveness was the most powerful thing he ever did — and the hardest. The complete story of Joseph — one of the Old Testament's most fully realized narrative arcs. The film follows Joseph from his father Jacob's household through his brothers' betrayal and sale into slavery, his service in Potiphar's house and Potiphar's wife's false accusation, his years in Egyptian prison, his extraordinary gift of dream interpretation, his rise to Pharaoh's right hand as second in command of Egypt, the great famine, his brothers' arrival in Egypt, his revelation of his identity, and the profound, costly reconciliation with the brothers who betrayed him. The film is structured as a story of providence — not simple luck but the specific conviction that God's purposes work through human suffering without excusing those who cause it. Act One — The Coat Jacob's household. Joseph's dreams. The brothers' resentment building. The sale into slavery and the coat dipped in goat's blood. Act Two — Egypt Potiphar's house. The prison. The cupbearer and the baker. Two years of waiting. Act Three — The Vizier Pharaoh's dream. Joseph's interpretation. The rise to power. The seven years of plenty. Act Four — The Brothers The famine. The brothers arriving in Egypt. The revelation. The reconciliation that costs Joseph everything he has held against them.
