About James Roday Rodriguez
James Roday Rodriguez is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Shawn Spencer, a hyper-observant consultant detective and fake psychic, in USA Network series Psych and the subsequent Psych film series. He also starred in A Million Little Things which debuted in 2018, playing Javier "Gary" Mendez. Rodriguez first decided to make acting his fulltime career in high school, where he was part of the theatre department run by James Buchanan, who would later become co-founder of the Communications Arts High School. In order to book his first job, he legally changed his middle name, David, to Roday (picked from an Anton Chekhov play he was starring in at the time), and omitted Rodriguez from his screen name. While at Taft, he became a UIL State Champion, being named best actor for his performance in the play The Elephant Man.
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