James McAvoy
Acting
Born 1979-04-21
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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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.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Band of Brothers
Top Gear
X-Men: Apocalypse
Deadpool 2
Foyle's War
X-Men: Days of Future Past
His Dark Materials
The Sandman
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Dark Phoenix
Shameless
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
The Oscars
It Chapter Two
Hot Ones Versus
Speak No Evil
Split
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Atonement
Atomic Blonde
Once Upon a Deadpool
Wanted
Glass
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Gnomeo & Juliet
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
50/50
Arthur Christmas
Pose
Murder in Mind
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
Victor Frankenstein
Watership Down
The Last King of Scotland
Becoming Jane
Filth
State of Play
Trance
Muppets Most Wanted
Penelope
The Bubble
My Son
Sherlock Gnomes
Wimbledon
The Book of Clarence
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
Together
Welcome to the Punch
The Conspirator
Starter for 10
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