James Ellis Deakins

January 16, 1954

James Ellis Deakins is an American script supervisor from the East Coast. She double majored in in Latin and Greek in college. She initially worked as film lab technician at DuArtFilm Laboratories in New York City. After moving to Los Angeles, she met English cinematographer Roger Deakins on the film set of Homicide (1991), and the pair married soon after.