James McAvoy 1979 46
James McAvoy 1979 46
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.
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2025 Control as Dr. Conway
2025 California Schemin' Director
2025 Turn Up the Sun!
2024 Speak No Evil as Paddy
2024 The Book of Clarence as Pontius Pilate
2023 Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen as Himself
2022 The Bubble as James McAvoy
2021 The Sands Between as Man
2021 My Son as Edmond Murray
2021 Together as He
2020 The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson as reader
2020 The Magical World of Julia Donaldson as Self - Readings
2020 One World: Together at Home as Self
2020 National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
2019 The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends as Self
2019 It Chapter Two as Bill Denbrough
2019 Dark Phoenix as Charles Xavier / Professor X
2019 Glass as Patricia / Dennis / Hedwig / The Beast / Barry / Heinrich / Jade / Ian / Mary Reynolds / Norma / Jalin / Kat / B.T. / Kevin Wendell Crumb / Mr. Pritchard / Felida / Luke / Goddard / Samuel / Polly
2018 Once Upon a Deadpool as Charles Xavier / Professor X (uncredited)
2018 Deadpool 2 as Charles Xavier (uncredited)
2018 Sherlock Gnomes as Gnomeo (voice)
2017 Submergence as James More
2017 Atomic Blonde as David Percival
2017 The Making of 'Split' as Self
2017 Split as Dennis / Patricia / Hedwig / The Beast / Kevin Wendell Crumb / Barry / Orwell / Jade
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse as Professor Charles Xavier
2015 Victor Frankenstein as Victor Frankenstein
2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her as Conor
2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him as Conor
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past as Charles Xavier
2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them as Conor Ludlow
2014 Muppets Most Wanted as UPS Guy
2013 Filth as Bruce Producer
2013 Trance as Simon
2013 Welcome to the Punch as Max Lewinsky
2012 X-Men: First Class 35mm Special as Self
2011 Arthur Christmas as Arthur (voice)
2011 50/50 Thanks
2011 Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011 X-Men: First Class as Charles Xavier
2011 The Conspirator as Frederick Aiken
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet as Gnomeo (voice)
2009 The Last Station as Valentin Bulgakov
2008 Wanted as Wesley Gibson
2007 Becoming Jane as Tom Lefroy
2007 Atonement as Robbie Turner
2006 Starter for 10 as Brian Jackson
2006 Penelope as Johnny/Max
2006 The Last King of Scotland as Dr. Nicholas Garrigan
2005 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Mr. Tumnus
2005 Macbeth as Joe Macbeth
2004 Strings as Hal (voice)
2004 Inside I'm Dancing as Rory O'Shea
2004 Wimbledon as Carl Colt
2003 Bright Young Things as Simon Balcairn
2002 Bollywood Queen as Jay
2002 White Teeth as Josh Malfen
2001 The Pool as Mike
2001 Lorna Doone as Sergeant Bloxham
1997 Regeneration as Anthony Balfour
1997 The Near Room as Kevin