James Swanton is best known for playing otherworldly characters, including the Mummy in
Lot No. 249 (2023), the Spirit in
Host (2020) and the title role in
Frankenstein's Creature (2018). As a stage actor, James has been closely associated with Dickens. He took his one-man play "Sikes & Nancy" to the West End's Trafalgar Studios and annually performs "A Christmas Carol" (amongst other ghost stories) at London's Charles Dickens Museum.