James McAvoy Biography

Birthday: 1979-04-21
Place of Birth: Port Glasgow, Scotland UK
Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Wiki Biography: McAvoy was raised in Drumchapel, Glasgow, by his grandparents after his father, also called James and a roofer by trade, abandoned his mother when James Jr. was 7. He went to St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill, Glasgow, where he did well enough and started "a little school band with a couple of mates".
McAvoy toyed with the idea of the Catholic priesthood as a child but when he was 16, a visit to the school by actor David Hayman sparked an interest in acting. Hayman offered him a part in his film The Near Room (1995) but despite enjoying the experience McAvoy didn't seriously consider acting as a career, though he did continue to act as a member of PACE Youth Theatre. He applied instead to the Royal Navy and had already been accepted when he was also offered a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
He took the place at RSAMD and when he graduated in 2000, he moved to London. He'd already made a couple of TV appearances by this time and continued to get a steady stream of TV and movie work until he came to British public attention in 2004 playing Steve McBride in the successful UK TV series "Shameless" (2004) and then to the rest of the world in 2005 as Mr Tumnus in Disney's adaptation of 'C. S. Lewis''s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).
Since then he and his easy facility with accents (no, wait, what? he's Scottish?) have been much in demand.
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
White Teeth | Josh Malfen | 2002 | Drama |
Children of Dune | Leto Atreides II | 2003 | Drama |
Britains Heritage Heroes | Himself | 2011 | |
Wanted | Wesley | 2018 | Action |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
The Strings | Prince Hal (English version) | 1996 | |
The Pool | Mike | 2001 | Horror, Thriller |
Bright Young Things | Simon Balcairn | 2003 | |
Children of Dune | Leto Atreides II | 2003 | Drama, Fantasy, Sci Fi |
Bollywood Queen | Jay | 2003 | Musical, Romance |
Wimbledon | Carl Colt | 2004 | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Rory O'Shea Was Here | Rory O'Shea | 2004 | Comedy, Drama |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Mr. Tumnus | 2005 | 0, 0, 0 |
Born in the USSR: 21 Up | 2005 | Documentary | |
Trance | Simon | 2006 | |
Starter for 10 | Brian Jackson | 2007 | |
The Last King of Scotland | Dr. Nicholas Garrigan | 2007 | Drama, History |
Becoming Jane | Tom Lefroy | 2007 | Drama, Romance |
Gnomeo and Juliet | Gnomeo | 2008 | |
Wanted | Wesley | 2008 | Game Show, Comedy, 0 |
Atonement | Robbie Turner | 2008 | Drama, Mystery, Romance |
The Last Station | Valentin Bulgakov | 2010 | |
The Conspirator | Frederick Aiken | 2010 | Comedy, 0, 0 |
Gnomeo & Juliet | Gnomeo | 2011 | Drama, 0 |
X-Men: First Class | Professor Charles Xavier | 2011 | 0, Sport |
Arthur Christmas | Arthur | 2011 | 0, Drama, 0 |
Strings | Prince Hal (English version) | 2012 | Sport, Biography, Drama, 0, 0 |
Welcome to the Punch | Max Lewinsky | 2013 | Action, Adventure, Crime |
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him | Conor Ludlow | 2013 | Drama |
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her | Conor Ludlow | 2013 | Drama |
Filth | Bruce Robertson | 2013 | Comedy, Crime, Drama |
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her | Conor Ludlow | 2014 | Drama |
X-Men: Days of Future Past | Charles Xavier | 2014 | Sport, 0 |
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them | Conor Ludlow | 2014 | Drama |
Frankenstein | Victor Von Frankenstein | 2014 | Drama |
Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes | Gnomeo | 2018 | Animation |