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James McAvoy
James Andrew McAvoy - born 21 April 1979, in Scotstoun, Glasgow, into a working-class environment - is probably about the most exciting Caledonian talent to emerge since that bloke with the motorbike.
The emerging began when actor David Hayman copped some heckling during a talk at McAvoy's school. The then 16 year old took it upon himself to apologise, and offered to come and make tea on Hayman's next film set. Hayman called four months later and had McAvoy audition for a part in The Near Room, which he got.
That led to increasingly decent roles on film and TV, including Band Of Brothers and excellent thriller State Of Play. And the upward curve just keeps on going, mostly because McAvoy is so good whatever he's in - yes, even that support role in Wimbledon.
He's the goat-chappie in Narnia, he's superb opposite Forest Whitaker in The Last King Of Scotland, he's funny in Starter For 10. And then there's the mature, layered double-whammy of Becoming Jane and Atonement. Next up, comic-book assassin wham-bammery Wanted, co-starring Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie - the latter of whom he "shares one epic snog" with. Nice work if you can get it...
Wise words: "I still think that, given the choice of running after me down the street and running after Keira, they would run after Keira. And that's fine with me, by the way. I'm more than happy with that."
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James McAvoy to play Chastain's husband -
22 May 2012
-X-Men: First Class star James McAvoy has signed on to play Jessica Chastain's husband in new movie The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby.-The Scottish star has replaced Joel Edgerton in the project, which is being pre-sold at the Cannes Film Festival in France.- McAvoy
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McAvoy: 'Fatherhood's made me more practical' -
11 November 2011
-Scottish actor James McAvoy has opened up about becoming a first-time father, insisting parenthood has made him "more practical".-The Atonement star and his actress wife Anne-Marie Duff welcomed baby Brendan last year (10), but remained tight-lipped about their new a
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McAvoy broke wind in front of Jolie -
29 October 2011
-Scottish actor James McAvoy was forced to apologise to his Wanted co-star Angelina Jolie after he suffered a bad bout of flatulence on-set.-The Atonement star bulked up for his role in the 2008 action film by eating a lot of meat and drinking protein shakes, but the
James McAvoy - what members say
review by chrismorrell from Basingstoke Hampshire
dark stuff 29 June 2007
review by from Stoke on trent
A Brilliantly heart warming comedy! 21 July 2005
review by A customer from London, England
Unmissable 26 December 2006
James McAvoy - filmography
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Filth
(2013)
Starring: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots
Director: Jon S. Baird
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A bipolar bigoted junkie cop, manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
 
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from 2 members
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Trance
(2013)
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel
Director: Danny Boyle
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A thriller centered around a botched art heist that pits two men against one another, though they both develop unusual relationships with the same woman.
68%
from 184 members
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Trance - Blu-ray
(2013)
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel
Director: Danny Boyle
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Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's ..read more »
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Welcome to the Punch - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: James McAvoy, Mark Strong, David Morrissey
Director: Eran Creevy
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Eran Creevy writes and directs this British gangster thriller set in London's docklands. Ex-con Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) is forced to return to London from his hideout in Iceland when his son gets caught up in a heist gone wrong. His reappearance gives detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) the ..read more »
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from 12 members
Due for release on 29th July 2013
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Welcome to the Punch
(2012)
Starring: James McAvoy, Mark Strong, David Morrissey
Director: Eran Creevy
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Eran Creevy writes and directs this British gangster thriller set in London's docklands. Ex-con Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) is forced to return to London from his hideout in Iceland when his son gets caught up in a heist gone wrong. His reappearance gives detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) the ..read more »
61%
from 108 members
Due for release on 29th July 2013
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X-Men - First Class
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: James McAvoy, January Jones, Rose Byrne
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch enemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest ..read more »
76%
from 35,860 members
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Gnomeo and Juliet - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith
Director: Kelly Asbury
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The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
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from 7,289 members
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Arthur Christmas
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Matt Lucas
Director: Barry Cook, Sarah Smith
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"Arthur Christmas" at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with ..read more »
76%
from 4,117 members
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Arthur Christmas - 3D Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy
Director: Sarah Smith
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This animated seasonal family comedy is co-produced by Aardman Studios. The film shows the inner workings of the high-tech operation run at the North Pole by Santa (voiced by Jim Broadbent) and his sons, which enables them to get all the world's presents delivered in just one night. But behind this ..read more »
76%
from 403 members
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Gnomeo and Juliet
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith
Director: Kelly Asbury
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The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
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from 39,020 members
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Gnomeo and Juliet - 3D Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith
Director: Kelly Asbury
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The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
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from 1,148 member
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X-Men - First Class - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: James McAvoy, January Jones, Rose Byrne
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch enemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest ..read more »
79%
from 568 members
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The Last Station
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti
Director: Michael Hoffman, Sebastian Edschmid
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Set in the last tumultuous years of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life, centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his ..read more »
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from 7,267 members
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The Conspirator
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Johnny Simmons, Jonathan Groff, James McAvoy
Director: Robert Redford
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Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
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from 450 members
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The Conspirator - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Stephen Root, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood
Director: Robert Redford
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Robert Redford directs this historical drama based on the military trial of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), the first woman to be executed in the United States. Arrested as a co-conspirator in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, boarding-house owner Surratt finds herself ..read more »
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from 176 members
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Wanted - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Terence Stamp, David O'Hara, Marc Warren
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
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Slick, fast-paced action thriller in which a mundane office worker is transformed into a lethal assassin. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy)'s life is one of dull routine. Trapped in a dead-end office job, unappreciated by his boss, and cheated on by his girlfriend, Wes has accepted that he's never going ..read more »
68%
from 13,354 members
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Atonement
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Keira Knightley, James McAvoy
Director: Joe Wright
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Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
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from 104,754 members
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Wanted
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
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A young man (McAvoy) finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (Freeman) to follow in his dad's footsteps.
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from 94,535 members
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Atonement - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley
Director: Joe Wright
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Joe Wright directs this adaptation of the novel by Ian McEwan starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) sees her older sister Cecilia (Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the ..read more »
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from 333 members
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Penelope
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Catherine O'Hara, Nick Fros, Peter Dinklage
Director: Mark Palansky
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Penelope Wilhern, born to wealthy socialites, is afflicted by a secret family curse that can only be broken when she is loved by "one of her own kind." Hidden away in the family's majestic home, she is subjected to meeting a string of blue-bloods through her parent's futile attempt to marry her off ..read more »
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from 25,687 members
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Starter For 10
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Charles Dance, Alice Eve, Mark Gatiss
Director: Tom Vaughan
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Coming-of-age comedy drama set in the mid-1980s, starring James McAvoy as working-class Essex boy Brian Jackson, who navigates his way through his first year at Bristol University and struggles to achieve his long-held ambition to appear on the TV quiz show Univeristy Challenge. Comedienne ..read more »
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from 28,804 members
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Becoming Jane - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Anna Maxwell Martin, Laurence Fox, Lucy Cohu
Director: Julian Jarrold
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Fictional romantic biopic of author Jane Austen. A young girl's future prospects in English society of 1795 are based around marrying for financial gain. As a rebellious twenty-year-old, Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) contemplates a future mapped out for her by her parents, when into her life rides ..read more »
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from 1,133 member
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The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the...
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Rupert Everett, Ray Winstone
Director: Andrew Adamson
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Family adventure based on the classic novel by CS Lewis. Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley) are deported from London to the house of an eccentric professor during World War II. They find life in the house extremely dull, until Lucy ..read more »
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from 85,573 members
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The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the...
(2005)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Rupert Everett, Ray Winstone
Director: Andrew Adamson
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Family adventure based on the classic novel by CS Lewis. Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley) are deported from London to the house of an eccentric professor during World War II. They find life in the house extremely dull, until Lucy ..read more »
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from 3,330 members
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Strings
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Catherine McCormack, James McAvoy
Director: Anders Ronnow-Klarlund
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Visually ambitious dark fantasy, the first film to be made entirely using string puppets and marionettes. Young Prince Hal (voiced by James McAvoy) embarks on a perilous quest in order to avenge the murder of his father, the Emperor of Hebalon. As he travels, Hal is shocked to find that the land of ..read more »
53%
from 2,494 members
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Shameless - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Gerard Kearns, Joseph Furnace, James McAvoy
Director: Mark Mylod, Johnny Campbell
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Episodes 1-7 from the first season of the offbeat and outrageous Channel 4 family drama following the lives and loves of the anarchic Gallagher family, who live on a rough council estate in Manchester. Mum went AWOL years ago, leaving eldest daughter Fiona (Anne-Marie Duff) to look after her five ..read more »
79%
from 13,318 members
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Bright Young Things
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Peter O'Toole, Jim Broadbent
Director: Stephen Fry
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Adam and his friends are young, party-goers who cannot keep still for a moment. Among all the madness, Adam is trying to raise enough money to marry Nina. While his attempts are constantly thwarted, his friends are slowly on the road to destruction in their search for newer and faster sensations.
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from 7,249 members
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State of Play - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy
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Stephen Collins is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her death on the London Underground. It's not long before revelations of their ..read more »
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from 4,857 members
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Children Of Dune
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ian McNeice, Ian Mcneice, Alice Krige
Director: Greg Yaitanes
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Sci-fi mini-series based on Frank Herbert's bestsellers. It's the year 10,103 and after ridding the desert planet Arrakis of its evil ruler, Paul Atreides (Alec Newman) has assumed control, along with the title of 'Muad'Dib'. Still faced with resistance from the fallen Baron Harkonnen (Ian McNeice),..read more »
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from 363 members
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Bollywood Queen
(2003)
Starring: Ian McShane, Ciaran McMenamin, Preeya Kalidas
Director: Jeremy Wooding
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Geena (Preeya Kalidas), raised by a traditional Indian family, falls in love with a charming Englishman named Jay (James McAvoy). Unfortunately, her family disapprove of Jay and her brothers are sent toshadow her wherever she goes. Feeling trapped, Geena flees to England with Jay, but her family ..read more »
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from 698 members
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White Teeth
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Christopher Simpson, Mona Hammond, Sophie Winkleman
Director: Julian Jarrold
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TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's award-winning novel that charts the lives of two wartime friends and their families through the cultural 'melting pot' of 1970s England and into the 1990s. On the verge of suicide, 47-year-old Archie Jones (Philip Davis)'s life is turned around when he meets and ..read more »
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from 76 members
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