<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1996--2000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> James and the Giant Peach Microsoap </Td> </Tr> <P> Paul Christopher James Terry (born 7 November 1985) is an English former child actor . He is best known for in starring as James in the 1996 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach . He also starred in the four seasons of the children's sitcom Microsoap (1998--2000). </P> <P> Terry was born in and grew up in Watford, Hertfordshire, north of London, and persuaded his parents to let him attend acting classes when he was five years old . He made his stage debut the following year in a regional production of Turgenev's A Month in the Country . In 1994 his father heard about the auditions for a screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's popular children's novel James and the Giant Peach, and thought his son would be perfect: "Like James", he said, "Paul can act like a little boy lost ." </P>

Who plays james in james and the giant peach