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James McAvoy
Highest Rated: 92% Arthur Christmas (2011)
Lowest Rated: 22% Submergence (2017)
Birthday: Apr 21, 1979
Birthplace: Port Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Hailed in 2006 by director Kevin Macdonald as the world's "best British actor under 30 without question," Glasgow native James McAvoy's talent for playing flawed yet sympathetic characters made him an actor to watch for the new millennium. Officially kicking off his screen career at age 16 in the 1995 thriller, "The Near Room," it would be another eight years before McAvoy landed his big break in the 2003 Sci-Fi Channel original miniseries, "Children of Dune." After a handful of well-received television roles, McAvoy's feature career took off in 2005, starting with a major role in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" (2005), followed closely with a truly impressive turn as an ethically ambiguous physician in the critical hit, "The Last King of Scotland" (2006).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Speak No Evil | Paddy (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 66% | 80% | The Book of Clarence | Unknown (Character) | $6.1M | 2023 |
| 40% | 38% | My Son | Edmond Murray (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 71% | 57% | Together | He (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 62% | 78% | It: Chapter Two | Bill Denbrough (Character) | $211.6M | 2019 |
| 22% | 64% | Dark Phoenix | Professor Charles Xavier (Character) | $65.8M | 2019 |
| 37% | 67% | Glass |
Kevin Wendell Crumb/ |
$111.0M | 2019 |
| 27% | 36% | Sherlock Gnomes | Gnomeo (Voice) | $43.1M | 2018 |
| 22% | 32% | Submergence | James More (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 79% | 64% | Atomic Blonde | David Percival (Character) | $51.5M | 2017 |
| 78% | 79% | Split | Kevin Wendell Crumb (Character) | $138.1M | 2016 |
| 47% | 65% | X-Men: Apocalypse | Professor Charles Xavier (Character) | $155.0M | 2016 |
| 26% | 37% | Victor Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein (Character) | $5.7M | 2015 |
| 90% | 91% | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Young Charles Xavier (Character) | $233.9M | 2014 |
| 80% | 59% | Muppets Most Wanted | UPS Guy (Character) | $51.2M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her | Conor (Character) | $585.6K | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him | Conor (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 65% | 51% | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby | Conor (Character) | $511.7K | 2013 |
| 67% | 67% | Filth | Bruce Robertson (Character) | $34.3K | 2013 |
| 69% | 62% | Trance | Simon (Character) | $2.3M | 2013 |
| 48% | 36% | Welcome to the Punch | Max Lewinsky (Character) | $3.4K | 2013 |
| 92% | 77% | Arthur Christmas | Arthur (Voice) | $46.4M | 2011 |
| 86% | 87% | X-Men: First Class | Charles Xavier (Character) | $146.4M | 2011 |
| 55% | 54% | Gnomeo & Juliet | Gnomeo (Voice) | - | 2011 |
| 56% | 62% | The Conspirator | Frederick Aiken (Character) | $11.5M | 2010 |
| 71% | 67% | The Last Station | Valentin (Character) | $6.6M | 2009 |
| 71% | 69% | Wanted | Wesley Gibson (Character) | $134.3M | 2008 |
| 83% | 80% | Atonement | Robbie Turner (Character) | $50.9M | 2007 |
| 58% | 74% | Becoming Jane | Tom Lefroy (Character) | $18.7M | 2007 |
| 53% | 73% | Penelope |
Johnny/ |
$10.0M | 2006 |
| 90% | 66% | Starter for 10 | Brian Jackson (Character) | $210.1K | 2006 |
| 87% | 89% | The Last King of Scotland | Nicholas Garrigan (Character) | $17.6M | 2006 |
| 75% | 61% | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Mr. Tumnus (Character) | $291.7M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Macbeth | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 80% | 82% | Strings | Hal (Voice) | - | 2004 |
| 48% | 88% | Inside I'm Dancing | Rory O'Shea (Character) | $20.3K | 2004 |
| 61% | 57% | Wimbledon | Carl Colt (Character) | $16.8M | 2004 |
| 66% | 68% | Bright Young Things | Simon Balcairn (Character) | $931.8K | 2003 |
| 71% | 41% | Bollywood Queen | Jay (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 45% | 34% | The Pool | Mike (Character) | - | 2002 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2014 2019 2024 |
| 50% | 85% | HouseBroken | Stan (Guest Voice) | 2023 |
| 84% | 82% | His Dark Materials | Lord Asriel (Character) | 2019-2020 2022 |
| 88% | 80% | The Sandman | Richard Madoc (Guest Star) | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2016-2017 2019 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2011 2013-2016 2019 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2011 2019 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Stand Up To Cancer | Guest | 2021 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | The Bridge | Narrator | 2020-2021 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014-2015 2017-2018 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2018-2019 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 2019 |
| 74% | 81% | Watership Down | Hazel (Voice) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2015 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Top Gear | Guest | 2013 2017 |
| 100% | 90% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | The View | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2008 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dateline NBC | Guest | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ShakespeaRe-told | Joe Macbeth (Character) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shameless | Unknown (Character) | 2004-2005 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | State of Play | Dan Foster (Character) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
| 80% | 80% | Children of Dune | Leto Atreides II (Character) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 96% | Foyle's War | Ray Pritchard (Character) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| 97% | 96% | Band of Brothers | James Miller (Guest Star) | 2001 |