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James McAvoy

Scottish actor

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1979

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession: actor, stage actor, voice actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: Scotland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About James McAvoy

  • James McAvoy Jr.
  • (; born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor.
  • He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and made mostly television appearances until 2003, when his feature film career began.
  • His notable television work includes the thriller State of Play and the science fiction mini-series Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
  • He has performed in several West End productions and received three 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.
  • This was followed by a supporting role, 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 played Professor Charles Xavier in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011), 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 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 2019 sequel Glass.

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