James McAvoy
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Biography
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Sandman
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Top Gear
Foyle's War
Shameless
Deadpool 2
Once Upon a Deadpool
The Bubble
Band of Brothers
Muppets Most Wanted
The Flash
His Dark Materials
Wimbledon
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Bright Young Things
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
Sherlock Gnomes
Dark Phoenix
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Becoming Jane
Atomic Blonde
Split
Arthur Christmas
Trance
Atonement
Glass
Filth
Speak No Evil
It Chapter Two
My Son
X-Men: Apocalypse
Victor Frankenstein
Wanted
X-Men: First Class
Welcome to the Punch
Gnomeo & Juliet
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