James McAvoy

James McAvoy

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.

Filth
2013
Producer
Speak No Evil
2024
Paddy
The Book of Clarence
2024
Pontius Pilate
Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen
2023
Himself
The Bubble
2022
James McAvoy
The Sands Between
2021
Man
My Son
2021
Edmond Murray
Together
2021
He
National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
2020
Cyrano de Bergerac
One World: Together at Home
2020
Self
Dark Phoenix
2019
Charles Xavier / Professor X
Glass
2019
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
It Chapter Two
2019
Bill Denbrough
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019
Self
Sherlock Gnomes
2018
Gnomeo (voice)
Once Upon a Deadpool
2018
Charles Xavier / Professor X (uncredited)
Deadpool 2
2018
Charles Xavier (uncredited)
Split
2017
Dennis / Patricia / Hedwig / The Beast / Kevin Wendell Crumb / Barry / Orwell / Jade
Atomic Blonde
2017
David Percival
Submergence
2017
James More
The Making of 'Split'
2017
Self
X-Men: Apocalypse
2016
Professor Charles Xavier
Victor Frankenstein
2015
Victor Frankenstein
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
Charles Xavier
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014
Conor Ludlow
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014
Conor
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014
Conor
Muppets Most Wanted
2014
UPS Guy
Trance
2013
Simon
Welcome to the Punch
2013
Max Lewinsky
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
2012
Self
50/50
2011
Thanks
The Conspirator
2011
Frederick Aiken
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011
Gnomeo (voice)
X-Men: First Class
2011
Charles Xavier
Arthur Christmas
2011
Arthur (voice)
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011
The Last Station
2009
Valentin Bulgakov
Wanted
2008
Wesley Gibson
Becoming Jane
2007
Tom Lefroy
Atonement
2007
Robbie Turner
The Last King of Scotland
2006
Dr. Nicholas Garrigan
Penelope
2006
Johnny/Max
Starter for 10
2006
Brian Jackson
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
Mr. Tumnus
Macbeth
2005
Joe Macbeth
Strings
2004
Hal (voice)
Inside I'm Dancing
2004
Rory O'Shea
Wimbledon
2004
Carl Colt
Bright Young Things
2003
Simon Balcairn
Bollywood Queen
2002
Jay
The Pool
2001
Mike
White Teeth
2002
Josh Malfen
The Near Room
1997
Kevin
Turn Up the Sun!

Lorna Doone
2001
Sergeant Bloxham
Regeneration
1997
Anthony Balfour