James Maslow

James David Maslow (born July 16, 1990) is an American actor, singer, dancer, musician and model. He is best known for playing the role of James Diamond on Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush and is a member of the boy band of the same name. He also played roles in Getaway and The Frozen Ground, and also starred as Kevin Mohr on the Sony Crackle original series Sequestered.
In 2014, Maslow competed as a contestant on the eighteenth season of Dancing with the Stars, in which he reached fourth place. In 2018, Maslow was cast as one of the celebrity houseguests on the first American edition of Celebrity Big Brother where Maslow finished in sixth place.
== Early Life ==
Maslow was born in New York, New York and raised in La Jolla, California. Born to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, Maslow was raised Jewish.
At the age of six, Maslow began training as a singer when his parents placed him in the San Diego Children's Choir. He attended La Jolla and Torrey Pines elementary schools, Muirlands Middle School, and San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts (SDSCPA). He had a small role in the San Diego Opera's production of La bohème when he was 10 years old. He attended acting camp at the La Jolla Playhouse, and got his first agent when he was 14. At SDSCPA, he portrayed lead roles in select feature productions, including Danny Zuko in "Grease" (2004) and Marius in "Les Miserables" (2006). Maslow transferred from SDSCPA partway through the tenth grade, switching to Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA). He graduated from CoSA's musical theater department in 2007.
== Career ==
=== 2008-14 (Big Time Rush) ===
Maslow made his acting debut in 2008 as Shane in an episode of the Nickelodeon show iCarly. He also appeared in urFRENZ in 2009, Wild Things: Foursome in 2010, Kyle Evans Arena (2011 film) in 2011 Chris, in which he portrayed a character named Brandon. In 2012, Getaway (2013 film) Max & The Frozen Ground Daniel O' Brian On 2013, he filmed an episode of See Dad Run, playing the role of actor Scott Baio's former TV son, Ricky. In 2007 Maslow sent his audition tape for a new Nickelodeon sitcom and received the role of James Diamond two years later in the show Big Time Rush, along with Kendall Schmidt, Carlos Pena, Jr., and Logan Henderson. They also formed the real boyband Big Time Rush. An album of original songs from the first season plus some others was released October 11, 2010, entitled B.T.R. It sold 67,000 copies in its first week and was certified Gold by the RIAA five months later in March 2011. On November 21, 2011, the band released their second album called "Elevate" which sold over 70,000 copies on its first week. Maslow and his bandmates co-wrote 8 out of the 12 songs. Maslow wrote "Elevate", co-wrote "Love Me Love Me" and the first single from the album, "Music Sounds Better With U". The UK version of the album included a bonus song called "Epic" which he also helped write.
Maslow and Big Time Rush have a third album called 24/Seven which was released on June 11, 2013. The band promoted the album with the tour shared with Victoria Justice called the Summer Break Tour. which began on June 21 and ended on August 15. On late Winter 2014, Maslow and the band went to their latest tour called "Big Time Rush Live 2014 World Tour", where they performed in Texas and 7 countries in Latin America.
=== 2014-Present (Solo Career) ===
On March 4, 2014, ABC announced that Maslow would take part in the 18th season of Dancing with the Stars. He was paired with professional dancer Peta Murgatroyd. Ultimately, Maslow made it to the finals, but was eliminated on the first night. Maslow finished in fourth place, with an average score of 26.9 (excluding scores from guest judges). In a vote on Twitter, Maslow was nevertheless chosen "in a landslide" to perform an encore of his freestyle dance during the season finale. During his time on the show, Maslow earned the first perfect score of the season for his contemporary dance to "Let It Go" from Frozen on Disney Night. He featured on the cover of the July 2014 issue of FitnessRx Magazine.
Dancing with the Stars performances and results	Dancing with the Stars performances and results	Dancing with the Stars performances and results	Dancing with the Stars performances and results	Dancing with the Stars performances and results	Dancing with the Stars performances and results	Dancing with the Stars performances and results
Week # 	Dance/song 	Judges' score 	Judges' score 	Judges' score 	Judges' score 	Result
Week # 	Dance/song 	Inaba 	Goodman 	Guest1 	Tonioli 	Result
1 	Foxtrot / "Story of My Life" 	7 	7 	— 	7 	No Elimination
2 	Salsa / "Follow the Leader" 	9 	8 	— 	8 	Safe
3 	Jive / "The Middle" 	9 	9 	9 	9 	Safe
42 	Tango / "Dark Horse" 	9 	8 	9 	9 	No Elimination
5 	Contemporary / "Let It Go" 	10 	10 	10 	10 	Safe
6 	Quickstep / "You're the One That I Want" 	9 	8 	9 	9 	Safe
7 	Samba / "Gasolina"
Team Freestyle / "The Cup of Life"	9
8 	8
8 	9
10 	9
9 	Last to be called safe
8 	Viennese Waltz / "6'2"
Celebrity Dance Duel (Jive) / "Ain't Nothing Wrong with That"	8
9 	9
10 	10
10 	9
10 	Last to be called safe
9
Semifinals 	Cha-cha-cha / "Love Never Felt So Good"
Rumba / "Islands in the Stream"	10
9 	10
9 	10
9 	10
9 	Safe
10
Finals 	Tango / "Adore You"
Freestyle / "Original Don" 	9
10 	10
9 	— 	10
10 	Eliminated
Also in 2014 Maslow was cast in the 2015 Lifetime television movie Seeds of Yesterday in the leading role of Bart Foxworth. He released his first single "Lies" on July 24, 2015. He has also released another single called "Circles" on October 23, 2015. In addition, he has two covers, "Cheerleader" and "One Call Away" available for purchase on iTunes. In 2017 James debuted his solo album titled, How I Like It from which he has highlighted the single by the same name. Towards the end of 2017, James collaborated with director Joshua Schultz for his music video for the song "Who Knows", off his "How I Like It" debut album. In 2018 James competed in the first American season of Celebrity Big Brother where he was evicted on day 24.
In 2018 Maslow released new singles "Falling" and "All Day".
Most recently, on April 26, 2019, Maslow released "Love U Sober", and announced that he is about to start releasing more singles.
In May 2019, it was announced that Maslow would be starring in independent film We Need to Talk, co-starring Emily Bett Rickards, and written and directed by Todd Wolfe.
== Filmography ==
=== Films ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2013	Getaway 	Max 	
2013	The Frozen Ground 	Daniel O' Brian 	
2017	Love Exclusively 	Caleb 	
2018	Bachelor Lions 	Mark Meyers 	
2018	Room for Murder 	Jake 	
2020	My Boyfriend's Meds 	Henry 	
2020	Wolf Hound 	Captain David Holden	In production
2020	Hellstorm 	Bolton 	In production
2020	Stars Fell on Alabama	Bryce Dixon 	In production
2020	We Need to Talk 	Scott Stewart 	In production
2021	Ron's Gone Wrong 	Bubble Employee 	(voice)
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
2008 	iCarly 	Shane 	Episode: "iSaw Him First"
2009–2013 	Big Time Rush 	James Diamond 	Main role
2011 	Hand aufs Herz 	Himself 	Episode: "August 11"
2012 	How to Rock 	Himself 	Episode: "How to Rock: An Election"
2012 	Big Time Movie 	James Diamond 	Television film
2012; 2013	See Dad Run 	Ricky Adams 	Episodes: "See Dad Wah-Wah'd" and "See Dad Campaign"
2013 	Marvin Marvin 	Himself 	Episode: "Big Time Marvin"
2014 	Dancing with the Stars 	Contestant 	Season 18
2014 	Sequestered 	Kevin Mohr 	Main role
2015 	The Penguins of Madagascar	Beaver James (voice)	Episode: "Tunnel of Love"
2015 	Seeds of Yesterday 	Bart Foxworth 	Television film
2018 	The Big Bang Theory 	Bartender 	Episode: "The Reclusive Potential"
2018 	Celebrity Big Brother 	Contestant 	Season 1
2019 	The Big Stage 	Host 	
2020 	World's Funniest Animals 	Guest 	1 episode
=== Web ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2015	Be Right Back 	Maury McQuarrie	Main role
2016	Princess Rap Battle	Kristoff 	Episode: "Rapunzel & Flynn vs. Anna & Kristoff"
== Discography ==
=== Studio albums ===
Title 	Album details
How I Like It	
* Released: March 3, 2017
* Formats: CD, digital download
* Label: Membran
=== Singles ===
==== As lead artist ====
Title 	Year	Album
"Lies"
(featuring Unlike Pluto)	2015	Non-album single
"Circles" 	2015	Non-album single
"Cry"
(featuring City Fidelia)	2017	How I Like It
"How I Like It" 	2017	How I Like It
"Who Knows" 	2017	How I Like It
"Christmas Beautiful"	2017	Non-album single
"Falling" 	2018	Non-album single
"All Day"
(featuring Dominique)	2018	Non-album single
"Love U Sober" 	2019	Non-album single
"Delirious" 	2019	Non-album single
"Did You Forget" 	2019	Non-album single
"History" 	2020	Non-album single
 	2020	Non-album single
 	2020	Non-album single
 	2020	Non-album single
==== As featured artist ====
Title 	Year	Album
"Never Too Young"
(MattyB featuring James Maslow) 	2013	Non-album single
"Now The Time Has Come"
(Ringo Starr featuring Billy Valentine, Casey McPherson, Christian Collins, Colin Hay, James Maslow, Kirsten Collins, Maddi Jane, Richard Page and Wesley Stromberg)	2017	Non-album single
Brayton Be Faking (Desmond Dennis Featuring James Maslow)	2021	Non-album single
=== Other appearances ===
Title 	Year	Other artist(s)	Album
"Mirrors"	2013	Cimorelli 	Best Of 2013
== Awards and nominations ==
Maslow received a nomination in 2014 at the annual Young Hollywood Awards for hottest body which he lost to former Dancing With The Stars competitor Derek Hough. In the same year, Maslow again received recognition for his charitable efforts with the annual VH1 Do Something! "Celebs Gone Good Awards", though he failed to make the winners list as Taylor Swift had won that time for the third consecutive Year. In addition to these nominations, James Maslow was nominated as Favorite International TV Star at the Australian Kids Choice Awards between 2010 and also again in 2011. He has also been recognized with an Australian Astra Award nomination for Favorite International Actor or Personality at the 2011 event, but did not win. In 2014, Maslow along with cast and crew of the Sony Crackle drama series Sequestered received 2 International Academy of Web Television Awards (IAWTVA) for Best Drama Series and one for Best Ensemble Cast losing both bids. As a musician, in July 2017, Maslow was declared the winner of Macy's iHeartRadio Rising Star competition and opened the iHeartRadio Music Festival.
==External links==
*Official site
* 
*Official Twitter
*Official Facebook
*Official Instagram
*Official YouTube
*Official Spotify
Category:Actors
Category:Males
Category:Singers
Category:Big Time Rush cast members
Category:1990s births
Category:Figure It Out panelists
Category:People
Category:The Penguins of Madagascar cast members
Category:ICarly cast members
Category:How to Rock
Category:Marvin Marvin
Category:Unfiltered guest stars