- Was in a seven-year relationship with Psych (2006) co-star Maggie Lawson.
- Announced in July 2020 that he is taking his original last name back and will be credited as James Roday Rodriguez going forward. Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020) is his first credit under that name.
- Decided to use the last name "Roday," since there was already someone named James Rodriguez in the Screen Actors Guild.
- In People's 100 Most Beautiful People issue (2007).
- Friend of Dana Ashbrook, whom he directed in his 2004 play "Sustenance." Ashbrook starred in Roday's favorite show Twin Peaks (1990) and guest-starred in the Psych (2006) episode that Roday wrote as an homage to "Twin Peaks." According to Roday, Ashbrook was instrumental in helping some of the pieces fall in place for the episode.
- Used to be in a band called Dogberry when he was younger.
- BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1997).
- Co-artistic director of the theater company Red Dog Squadron, which he founded in 1999 with friend Brad Raider.
- Starring off-Broadway as "Finn" in "Extinction," a play by Gabriel McKinley, directed by Wayne Kasserman. With Michael Weston also in the cast. (February 2010)
- Directed a play called "Greedy" for his theatre company, Red Dog Squadron, in Los Angeles, California. (January 2010)
- His favorite gum is Juicy Fruit.
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