
Acting
Born April 21, 1979 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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.

California Schemin'
2026

Pose
2026

Lions Uncut: Australia 2025
2025

The Space Between Attack and Decay
2025

Speak No Evil
2024

The Book of Clarence
2024

Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen
2023

The Bubble
2022

The Sands Between
2021

My Son
2021

Together
2021
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020

One World: Together at Home
2020

National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
2020

The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019

It Chapter Two
2019

Dark Phoenix
2019

Glass
2019

Once Upon a Deadpool
2018

Deadpool 2
2018

Sherlock Gnomes
2018

Submergence
2018

Atomic Blonde
2017

The Making of 'Split'
2017

Split
2017

X-Men: Apocalypse Unearthed
2016

X-Men: Apocalypse
2016

Victor Frankenstein
2015
Mutant vs. Machine: The Making of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
2015