James Patrick Stuart
James Patrick Stuart is an American actor, currently portraying Valentin Cassadine on the daytime soap opera "General Hospital", for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020 and 2021. Early life. Stuart was born to English parents Chad and Jill Stuart. His father was one-half of the 1960s British Invasion duo Chad & Jeremy; because of this, Stuart spent much of his childhood in recording studios. As a child actor, he went by the name Patrick Stuart, and starred in the 1980s TV series "Galactica 1980" as  Doctor Zee. Career. Stuart played Confederate Colonel Edward Porter Alexander in the 1993 film "Gettysburg" and its 2003 prequel "Gods and Generals". Between 1989 and 1992, he was the second actor (after Lonnie Quinn) to play Will Cortlandt on the daytime soap opera "All My Children". He is known mostly for his work on television, appearing in such shows as "", "Andy Richter Controls the Universe", "The Closer", "90210", "Still Standing", "Seinfeld", "Supernatural" and "Frasier." He provides the voices of Avalanche in "Wolverine and the X-Men", Private the Penguin and Joey the Kangaroo in Nickelodeon's "The Penguins of Madagascar , Pvt. MacGregor in Call of Duty 2" and Xigbar and Braig in the "Kingdom Hearts" video games. He is next set to star in the Disney Channel sitcom "The Villains of Valley View", premiering June 3, 2022. Personal life. Stuart resides in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Jocelyn, and their two sons.