1979-04-21 ( 45 years old ) in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
James McAvoy (born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor. He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and appeared mostly on television until 2003, when his feature film career began. His notable television work includes the thriller State of Play, science fiction miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune and the channel 4s BAFTA award-winning series Shameless (British TV series)
He has performed in several West End productions and has received four nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, and has also done voice work for animated films including Gnomeo & Juliet, its sequel Sherlock Gnomes, and Arthur Christmas.
In 2003, McAvoy appeared in a lead role in Bollywood Queen, then in another lead role as Rory in Inside I'm Dancing in 2004. This was followed by a supporting role, as the faun Mr. Tumnus, in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). His performance in Kevin Macdonald's drama The Last King of Scotland (2006) garnered him several award nominations, including the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. The critically acclaimed romantic drama war film Atonement (2007) earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination and his second BAFTA nomination. He later appeared as a newly trained assassin in the action thriller Wanted (2008).
In 2011, McAvoy portrayed Professor Charles Xavier in the superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Dark Phoenix (2019). McAvoy starred in the crime comedy-drama film Filth (2013), for which he won Best Actor in the British Independent Film Awards. In 2016, he portrayed Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man with 23 alternate personalities, in M. Night Shyamalan's Split, for which he received critical acclaim, and later reprised the role for the sequel Glass (2019). Since 2019, he has portrayed Lord Asriel Belacqua in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials.
Movies
Speak No Evil
2024-09-11
The Book of Clarence
2024-01-11
Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen
2023-04-12
The Bubble
2022-03-25
The Sands Between
2021-09-25
My Son
2021-09-23
Together
2021-08-27
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020-12-23
One World: Together at Home
2020-04-18
National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
2020-02-20
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019-12-10
It Chapter Two
2019-09-04
Dark Phoenix
2019-06-05
Glass
2019-01-16
Once Upon a Deadpool
2018-12-11
Deadpool 2
2018-05-15
Sherlock Gnomes
2018-03-15
Submergence
2017-09-22
Atomic Blonde
2017-07-26
The Making of 'Split'
2017-04-18
Split
2017-01-19
X-Men: Apocalypse
2016-05-18
Victor Frankenstein
2015-11-10
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014-10-10
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014-10-10
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014-05-15
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014-05-14
Muppets Most Wanted
2014-03-20
Filth
2013-09-23
Trance
2013-03-27
Welcome to the Punch
2013-03-15
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
2012-06-05
Arthur Christmas
2011-11-10
X-Men: First Class
2011-06-01
The Conspirator
2011-04-15
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011-01-13
The Last Station
2009-09-04
Wanted
2008-06-19
Becoming Jane
2007-03-02
Atonement
2007-02-27
Starter for 10
2006-09-13
Penelope
2006-03-01
The Last King of Scotland
2006-01-12
Macbeth
2005-11-14
Strings
2004-10-24
Inside I'm Dancing
2004-10-15
Wimbledon
2004-09-13
Bright Young Things
2003-10-03
Bollywood Queen
2002-12-11
White Teeth
2002-09-16
The Pool
2001-10-04
Lorna Doone
2001-03-11
Regeneration
1997-08-27
The Near Room
1997-04-11
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