James McAvoy
James McAvoy (born April 21, 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.4145 |
| Birthday | 1979-04-21 |
| Place of Birth | Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As | ジェームズ・マカヴォイ, جيمس مكافوي, เจมส์ แม็กอะวอย, 詹姆斯·麥艾維, Джеймс Макэвой, James Andrew McAvoy, Τζέιμς Μακαβόι, 詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊, ג'יימס מק'אבוי, Джеймс Макевой, جیمز مکآووی, |
2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
7.135/11435
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2006
The Last King of Scotland
7.415/2350
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2007
Becoming Jane
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2007
Atonement
7.634/4670
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2004
Strings
6.653/85
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Strings
2021
The Sands Between
6.6/11
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2001
The Pool
5.217/115
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2004
Inside I'm Dancing
7.434/226
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Penelope
6.744/1467
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Wimbledon
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Wanted
6.5/7550
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2006
Starter for 10
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The Last Station
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2011
The Conspirator
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2003
Bright Young Things
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2002
Bollywood Queen
5/12
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10/1
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Gnomeo & Juliet
5.902/2065
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Speak No Evil
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Control
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X-Men: First Class
7.3/13482
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2013
Trance
6.619/2329
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2011
Arthur Christmas
6.8/1624
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Welcome to the Punch
5.868/693
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Filth
6.837/1888
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The Bubble
4.6/504
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.5/16178
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6.156/308
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The Near Room
5/11
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2015
Victor Frankenstein
5.948/2267
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White Teeth
6.071/14
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Pose
6.29/31
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
6.674/242
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
6.682/247
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X-Men: Apocalypse
6.521/13706
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The Book of Clarence
5.865/133
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Sherlock Gnomes
5.758/768
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California Schemin'
6/1
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Split
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Atomic Blonde
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Submergence
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Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
8/4
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Regeneration
5.533/30
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2001
Lorna Doone
5.75/22
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Dark Phoenix
5.963/7032
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Glass
6.665/9040
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6.837/9557
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Once Upon a Deadpool
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ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
7.714/7
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Deadpool 2
7.49/19125
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The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
7.119/67
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National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
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The Making of 'Split'
6.4/17
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My Son
6.169/510
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Together
5.8/118
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One World: Together at Home
7.1/36
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X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
6.8/32
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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
6/1
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