Acting
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.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV
The Daily Show
1996 · TV
Conan
2010 · TV
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · TV
Top Gear
2002 · TV
Band of Brothers
2001 · TV
Shameless
2004 · TV
The Sandman
2022 · TV
Foyle's War
2002 · TV
His Dark Materials
2019 · TV
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · TV
X-Men: Apocalypse
2016 · Movie
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Movie
Deadpool 2
2018 · Movie
Dark Phoenix
2019 · Movie
Speak No Evil
2024 · Movie
Hot Ones Versus
2024 · TV
Split
2017 · Movie
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002 · TV
It Chapter Two
2019 · Movie
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · TV
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · TV
Atonement
2007 · Movie
Once Upon a Deadpool
2018 · Movie
Wanted
2008 · Movie
Murder in Mind
2001 · TV
Glass
2019 · Movie
Atomic Blonde
2017 · Movie
Pose
2026 · Movie
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
2016 · TV
Arthur Christmas
2011 · Movie
State of Play
2003 · TV
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
2003 · TV
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011 · Movie
Watership Down
2018 · TV
Becoming Jane
2007 · Movie
The Last King of Scotland
2006 · Movie
The Book of Clarence
2024 · Movie
Victor Frankenstein
2015 · Movie
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005 · TV
Penelope
2007 · Movie
My Son
2021 · Movie
Trance
2013 · Movie
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026 · TV
Filth
2013 · Movie
Muppets Most Wanted
2014 · Movie
Welcome to the Punch
2013 · Movie
The Bubble
2022 · Movie
Sherlock Gnomes
2018 · Movie
One World: Together at Home
2020 · Movie
Early Doors
2003 · TV
Lorna Doone
2000 · TV
Wimbledon
2004 · Movie
California Schemin'
2026 · Movie
Together
2021 · Movie
Starter for 10
2006 · Movie
White Teeth
2002 · TV
Submergence
2018 · Movie
The Last Station
2009 · Movie
Inside I'm Dancing
2004 · Movie
Bright Young Things
2003 · Movie
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014 · Movie
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014 · Movie
The Conspirator
2011 · Movie
The Bridge: Race to a Fortune
2020 · TV
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019 · Movie
The Pool
2001 · Movie
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011 · Movie
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
2012 · Movie
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014 · Movie
The Space Between Attack and Decay
2025 · Movie
X-Men: First Class
2011 · Movie
Strings
2004 · Movie
The Making of 'Split'
2017 · Movie
The Near Room
1997 · Movie
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
2005 · Movie
Bollywood Queen
2002 · Movie
Lorna Doone
2001 · Movie
Regeneration
1997 · Movie
The Sands Between
2021 · Movie
White Teeth
2002 · Movie
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2023 · Movie
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2020 · Movie
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2014 · Movie
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2025 · Movie
