James Mcavoy Biography

James McAvoy (born in 1979 in Scotstoun, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor. He first appeared in film as Kevin Savage in David Hayman's The Near Room in 1995 and as Anthony Balfour in Gillies MacKinnon's Regeneration in 1997. He later attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from which he graduated in 2000. He continued to pick quality roles with the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), the TV series White Teeth (2002) and the film Bollywood Queen (2002).

McAvoy got his first big international break playing the role of Leto Atreides II in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries Children of Dune (adapted from Frank Herbert’s novels) which aired in 2003.
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In the same year he was on the big screen in Stephen Fry’s directorial debut Bright Young Things. He later starred as Steve McBride in the drama series Shameless on Channel 4, for which he was nominated for the British Comedy Award for Best TV Newcomer, and filmed the romantic comedy Wimbledon. In 2004, he played Rory O’Shea, an Irish teenager who has muscular dystrophy in Inside I'm Dancing.

In 2005, he played Ben in the Royal Court Theatre's production Breathing Corpses, played a supporting role in the adaptation of the C.S. Lewis fantasy novel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Mr. Tumnus and played Joe Macbeth in a new adaptation of Macbeth on the BBC. In 2006 he will star alongside Gillian Anderson and Forest Whitaker in an adaptation of Giles Foden’s novel The Last King of Scotland based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.

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