James Duncan Rolfe is a renowned American actor, filmmaker, video game and film critic, comedian, and internet celebrity who gained immense fame for creating and starring in the American comedy retrogaming web series, The Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN). He started off filming reviews of Nintendo video games at an early age. Initially, he created the Angry Nintendo Nerd videos casually only to be shared and enjoyed among friends. Later, he uploaded these on his website Cinemassacre.com along with his friend-cum-collaborator, Mike Matei. By that time, he had already published many of the other videos that he had created on his own on Cinemassacre. Upon the insistence of Matei, James Rolfe uploaded the Nerd videos on YouTube where they garnered huge popularity, and eventually, the series became a program on GameTrailers and ScrewAttack, re-christened later as The Angry Video Game Nerd. He also made and starred in the film Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie based on the web series. James Rolfe has been featured in several films like Stoney, Kickassia, and To Boldly Flee. He has also appeared in TV series like Cinemassacre's Monster Madness and James & Mike Mondays among others.
