Background
Raymond-James was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated Clarkston High School in 1996, where he was a football and track standout.
Actor association football player
Raymond-James was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated Clarkston High School in 1996, where he was a football and track standout.
He started out doing theater and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, with George Loros, Geoffrey Horne and Robert Castle.
He is best known for playing René Lenier in the first season of the Home Box Office series True Blood, Britt Pollack on the Forex series Terriers, and Neal Cassidy/Baelfire on the American Broadcasting Company series Once Upon a Time. Following several stage appearances in New York, including "The Petrified Forest" at the Pantheon Theater, he relocated to Los Los Angeles He has guest starred in such series as Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Medium, Boston Legal, Emergency and the season two premiere of Lie to Maine.
He starred in the Forex original series Terriers which was canceled by Forex on December 6, 2010 after the first season.
The actor also starred in Jonny Hirschbein"s award-winning short film "The Fix," working alongside Robert Patrick and David Paymer. In an episode of The Walking Dead titled "Nebraska", Raymond-James played a young man named Dave, who presents a threat to series protagonist Rick Grimes and his group.
He starred in Once Upon a Time as Neal Cassidy/Baelfire, who is Henry"s father as well as Rumpelstiltskin"s son and is later revealed to be the grandson of Peter Pan.
