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James Nesbitt (b. January 15 1965) in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish actor who plays Bofur in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy.

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Nesbitt was born as William James Nesbitt to a Northern Irish family, his father was a teacher. Nesbitt himself wanted to become a teacher as well, so he began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out of school after a year when he decided to become an actor. He graduated in 1987 and spent seven years performing in multiple plays. He made his film debut playing a talent agent in the 1991 comedy Hear My Song.

His notable roles include the title role of the BBC miniseries Jekyll, a modern-day sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  He is also the host of a travel series touring around his native Ireland, and another touring around New Zealand, where he and his family lived for a year during the filming of the Hobbit trilogy.

Nesbitt is married to actress Sonia Forbes-Adam, who appears in the trilogy as Belladonna (Took) Baggins (Bilbo Baggins' mother). In October 2013, Nesbitt announced his separation from Forbes-Adam, though the couple are still legally married.

The couple have two daughters, Peggy and Mary, who appeared in the first film as children of Dale, and in the second and third films as Bard the Bowman's daughters.

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