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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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Wanted: James McAvoy Interview -
25 June 2008
-We caught up with Scottish Heart-throb James McAvoy as he gave us the inside gossip on his brand new action movie Wanted. He told us about the dramas of working on this first Hollywood blockbuster, attempts to clear up all those Hobbit rumours and tells us what Angel
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James McAvoy: I'm not playing Bilbo -
16 June 2008
Brit actor James McAvoy has denied that he is to play Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming movie adaptation of the Hobbit.-McAvoy, who made his name in the TV show Shameless before hitting the big screen, has said that the rumours are "not true".-"It's all int
James McAvoy - what members say
James McAvoy - filmography
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Atonement - HD DVD Version
(2007)
Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai
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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Penelope
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Mark Palansky
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Like Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and the TV show PUSHING DAISIES, PENELOPE is a modern fairy tale, complete with candy colours and whimsical cinematography. PENELOPE begins with a generations-old curse by a jilted lover: the next girl in the aristocratic Wilhern family will be born with a pig'...
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Wanted
(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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Atonement
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai
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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The Last King Of Scotland
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson
Director: Kevin Macdonald
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It was supposed to be a wild adventure in a far-off country, but when a naive young doctor arrives in 1970's Uganda - hoping for fun, sun and to lend a helping hand - he finds himself instead on a shocking ride into the darkest realm on earth. Befriended by the charismatic new leader, Idi Amin, and ...
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Shakespeare Retold
(2 discs)
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Sarah Parish, Damian Lewis, Billie Piper
Director: Brian Percival, Mark Brozel, David Richards
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Four features. These adaptations inspired from the original plays bring Shakespeare's stories to the modern day audience. In 'Much Ado About Nothing', Beatrice and Benedick are two news presenters and ex-lovers who are reunited to present the same regional news programme. The friction in their ...
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Shameless - Series 3
(3 discs)
on DVD (2005)
Starring: David Threlfall, Anne-Marie Duff, Joseph Furnace
Director: Catherine Morshead
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Shameless Series 3 promises plenty of laughs from Manchester's most dysfunctional family--the Gallaghers--as they go about their hectic lives alongside the equally anarchic Maquire family. Join Frank and his six kids--Fiona, Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl, and Liam-- for whom there is never a ...
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Strings
on DVD (2004)
Starring: James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover
Director: Anders Ronnow-Klarlund
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Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to revenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people - and where he least expects it - he finds true love.
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Inside I'm Dancing
on DVD (2004)
Starring: James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai
Director: Damien O'Donnell
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On meeting Michael, Rory decides that they must change their lives and so concocts a plan to beat the system. Escaping Carrigmore Home for the Disabled, the duo hire Siobhan to take care of their every need. Her arrival, however, brings with it emotions that Rory and Michael have never experienced...
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Shameless - Series 2
(3 discs)
(2004)
Starring: David Threlfall, Anne-Marie Duff, Joseph Furnace
Director: David Evans, Dearbhla Walsh
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Paul Abbott's Shameless returns to DVD for a second series. The Gallaghers, the UK's most dysfunctional family, return along with assorted colourful characters on the Chatsworth Estate. Frank, Manchester's favourite son and world's worst father, embarks on a series of adventures with his remarkably ...
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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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Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ...
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State of Play Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
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 ...
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Atonement
for Download (2007)
Starring: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley
Director: Joe Wright
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Run time: 130 minutes
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia (Kiera Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), a childhood ...
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Bright Young Things
for Download (2003)
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Peter O'Toole, Jim Broadbent
Director: Stephen, Fry
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Run time: 102 minutes
Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ...
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Wimbledon
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Starring: Sam Neill, Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Run time: 108 minutes
Richard Loncraine's WIMBLEDON is a lighthearted romantic comedy set in the high-pressure world of professional tennis. Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) is a 31-year-old Englishman who was once ranked 11th in the world, but has now dropped to a pathetic 119th. Realising that his days are numbered, Peter ...
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A Brilliantly heart warming comedy! 21 July 2005
...llent, it is based on two characters, the first is Rory played by the brilliant James McAvoy (shameless),who is a fun loving, rebellious character, who befriends Micheal pl...
This is an awful film 16 April 2007
