I'm going to do this out like the Character Entry Form. Remember, this is only what would be known or discoverable to the public at large. There are some facts that I'm not putting here but will reveal through PM if your character would have a valid reason to know.

Name: Essex
Real Name: James Kittridge

Gender: Male
Height: 6'
Weight: 208 lb.

Physical Description:
Although Essex can appear to be anyone, he most often appears to have grey skin with with red eyes, black hair and a black diamond on his forehead when dealing with people as Essex. In this form he is considered very attractive but well within baseline standards of beauty.

Powers:
Essex has incredible control over his own form. He is capable of healing great ammounts of damage almost immediately and is able to alter his shape in big and small ways. He can alter his form to appear as any living creature or just take on certain aspects. His body is also able to become less than solid. He has been seen open holes in his body to avoid attacks and oozing through the cracks in a doorframe as examples. Essex has also shown a minor level of telekinesis and the ability to produce a very weak energy bolt.

Known Facts:
James was born in 1978 to Louise and Albert Kittridge in Las Vegas, Nevada. All thoughout his youth he was very active in theatre and when he graduated High School, he pack up and moved to Hollywood, hoping to make it big.

James struggled to make ends meet working a regular day job while trying to break into the biz. He was moderately successful with small roles in tv and bit parts in movies. His big break came in 2007 when he was cast in the role of Mr. Sinister in the 6th and final X-Men movie.

James Erupted while on set in England. Faulty wiring caused a pyrotechnics display to missfire while James was standing over it. When the smoke cleared James was gone and 5 people were injured.

He was found 3 days later wandering a farmers field in Essex County and claimed to have no memory of how he got there. The Authorities rushed him to London and the Rashoud facility there where he spent a week before he checked himself out and went back to work finishing the movie.

James had a small legal battle with the remnents of Marvel Comics but was looked after by the movie studio and Marvel's lawsuit was thrown out of court. James made a 2 more movies with a promising carreer ahead of him before up and vanishing. No one is quite sure where he went or what he did, but he resurfaced in 2009 in Bollywood to take on a small role in a small indipendent fim.

At this point James was calling himself "Essex" and refused to answer to anything else. He spent another year working the industry, but keeping mainly to himself otherwise, before walking into the jungles of India and dissapearing again.

Essex Resurfaced once again 3 years later in the offices of the producer of the hit TV show "Valor of Heroes" Where he signed on to play a new shapeshifting character called "Nox"