James McAvoy

James McAvoy

Birthday: 1979-04-21

Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Also known as: ジェームズ・マカヴォイ, 제임스 맥어보이, جيمس مكافوي, เจมส์ แม็กอะวอย, 詹姆斯·麥艾維, Джеймс МакЭвой, Джеймс Макэвой, James Andrew McAvoy, Τζέιμς Μακαβόι, 詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊, ג'יימס מק'אבוי, Джеймс Макевой, جیمز مک‌آووی

imdb_id: nm0564215

Biography:

James McAvoy 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.

Played in movies:

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

Score: 10.0

Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen

Score: 10.0

National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac

Score: 8.4

Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class

Score: 8.0

Atonement

Score: 7.6

Macbeth

Score: 7.6

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Score: 7.5

Deadpool 2

Score: 7.5

Inside I'm Dancing

Score: 7.4

The Last King of Scotland

Score: 7.4

Split

Score: 7.3

Becoming Jane

Score: 7.3

X-Men: First Class

Score: 7.3

Speak No Evil

Score: 7.2

The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends

Score: 7.1

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Score: 7.1

Once Upon a Deadpool

Score: 7.1

One World: Together at Home

Score: 7.0

Filth

Score: 6.8

It Chapter Two

Score: 6.8

Arthur Christmas

Score: 6.8

Penelope

Score: 6.7

X-Men: First Class 35mm Special

Score: 6.7

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

Score: 6.7

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

Score: 6.7

Strings

Score: 6.7

Glass

Score: 6.7

Trance

Score: 6.6

The Conspirator

Score: 6.6

X-Men: Apocalypse

Score: 6.5

Wanted

Score: 6.5

The Sands Between

Score: 6.5

Atomic Blonde

Score: 6.4

Starter for 10

Score: 6.4

The Making of 'Split'

Score: 6.4

The Last Station

Score: 6.3

Bright Young Things

Score: 6.3

Muppets Most Wanted

Score: 6.3

White Teeth

Score: 6.3

Wimbledon

Score: 6.2

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

Score: 6.2

My Son

Score: 6.2

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

Score: 6.0

Dark Phoenix

Score: 6.0

Victor Frankenstein

Score: 5.9

The Book of Clarence

Score: 5.9

Gnomeo & Juliet

Score: 5.9

Welcome to the Punch

Score: 5.9

Together

Score: 5.8

Sherlock Gnomes

Score: 5.7

Regeneration

Score: 5.7

Lorna Doone

Score: 5.7

Submergence

Score: 5.5

The Pool

Score: 5.1

The Near Room

Score: 4.9

Bollywood Queen

Score: 4.8

The Bubble

Score: 4.6

Turn Up the Sun!

Score: 1.0

The Space Between Attack and Decay

Score: 0.0

California Schemin'

Score: 0.0

Control

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hot Ones Versus

Score: 9.7

Band of Brothers

Score: 8.6

Murder in Mind

Score: 8.4

Lorna Doone

Score: 8.0

The Sandman

Score: 7.9

His Dark Materials

Score: 7.9

Foyle's War

Score: 7.9

Early Doors

Score: 7.7

Shameless

Score: 7.5

Top Gear

Score: 7.5

ShakespeaRe-Told

Score: 7.5

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Score: 7.5

State of Play

Score: 7.5

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Score: 7.2

White Teeth

Score: 7.0

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

Watership Down

Score: 6.8

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.2

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Score: 6.0

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.8

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Score: 5.4

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

The One Show

Score: 4.6

The Bridge: Race to a Fortune

Score: 4.0