In the brink of success and fame, James Holzier was probably known most for his interesting life rather than his career as an actor. However looking back on how strong his willpower to become an actor and how determined he was joining auditions to appear in movies, who knows he might be the next big thing in Hollywood.

As unique as his personality, James' birth was one of the rare cases where he was almost non-existent. His mother Christine Holzier had as much as five miscarriages before giving birth to daughters Kristie and Carrie, thus after the two children she was prohibited by doctor to have anymore babies. However, she and her husband Jim wanted to have a son and amazingly one day she was pregnant and resolutely kept the baby even though it was an impossible one. Despite the doubt, James was born three months too early but managed to live through to the very end after suspended to life sustain for months.

Originally born in Fairfax, Virginia, he was raised in Houston because his father had to do a work there. In that same town, little James grew his interest in acting as early as three years old. He loved to become the center of attention and to steal the spotlight from local talent shows, so he begged his mom to send him to drama schools but only managed to enter some workshops. He refused to give up, but being too young, the eleven years old James was rejected from a local talent contest because it was meant for 18 years old and above. "A lot of people would ridicule, tease me, and say things. But I really didn't care." Persistent as always, the director of the contest finally gave up and allowed him to perform, and surprisingly he was on the top 3. After this, his name was heard by people more often as the small boy who had extraordinary talent. Then at the age of 13, an adult acting workshop invited him to join them and thus he became the only youngster there.

Appearing in commercials, he groomed his passion in acting and his debut on screen was in the family movie titled "Willy the Hitman" (1994) where he straightaway became the male leading actor. Displaying a good performance and sporting the kind of look that many may favor, he was predicted to be the new heartthrob. However, as he attended Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas, he continuously turned down roles that agents offered him. It was the education that he put as a priority and the good intention came along with his reputation to be the high school's basketball star. But after he broke his ankle during a game, he couldn't continue playing and that's when he started doing theatrical acting in his school. Becoming the lead character in Shakespeare's plays such as "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet", he quickly attracted a group of people from his school, especially girls to watch his every performance. The group grew to be a large crowd and finally he was known worldwide as he began to have fan sites and amazingly all of this happened after only doing one movie.

Upon accomplishing his study, the teen actor was ready to take a role in a movie and landed his choice in "Dreams in the Attic" (2000) where Haylie Duff played opposite him. Fully projected his passion and enthusiasm in this movie, he was obviously one of a kind. There was something about him that radiate the humbleness within, partly because after being honored to have an International Fan Day in which he was in parallel to top actors like Orlando Bloom, Charlize Theron, Johnny Depp and David Beckham, he still kept his profile low. He said, "I am not better than anyone else. No way at all. Not even close." After such accomplishment, he could have easily piled up numerous film records in his inventory since many offers came streaming on his way. But the actor who was exceptional in his own manner, felt that taking those offers as means of gaining stardom would rob his motivation. Loving his job in acting he preferred to do it at the right place, at the right time, whenever he felt like it perfect.