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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 - news / articles
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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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The Last Station
(2010)
Starring: James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti
Director: Michael Hoffman
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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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Wanted - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
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Loosely based on the comic book miniseries of the same by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, WANTED, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, follows anxiety-prone office drone Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) as he is inducted into the Fraternity, a clan of powerful killers that counted his father as a member. Pursued ..read more »
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69%
from 7,911 members
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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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from 711 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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67%
from 67,417 members
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Penelope
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Mark Palansky
Certificate: 
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'..read more »
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70%
from 20,691 members
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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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70%
from 84,687 members
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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 ..read more »
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77%
from 103,442 members
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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 dull moment ..read more »
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80%
from 3,329 members
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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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Michael is a twenty-four-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in. Michael is stunned to discover that fast talking Rory, who can move only ..read more »
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69%
from 20,314 members
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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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52%
from 2,265 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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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 ..read more »
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58%
from 5,999 members
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State of Play Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy
Certificate: 
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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86%
from 3,373 members
James McAvoy - watch online
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Shameless - Series 2, Episode 10
to Watch Now
(2004)
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, James McAvoy
Director: Dearbhla Walsh
Certificate: 
Watch now: FREE
Run time: 49 minutes
When Frank hears of a neighbours tragic death in a road accident he sees in it an opportunity to obtain a new identity. He pays a visit to the widow, Lillian, and offers to split her late husband's social security benefits with her if she doesn't register the death. Lillian agrees but only on ..read more »
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71%
from 28 members
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Shameless - Series 1, Episode 01
to Watch Now
(2004)
Starring: David Threlfall, Anne-Marie Duff, Joseph Furnace
Director: Mark Mylod
Certificate:
Watch now: FREE
Run time: 49 minutes
On a night out with neighbor Veronica, Fiona's bag is stolen and handsome stranger Steve chases after the thief. While he isn't successful in capturing the thief he does succeed in capturing the eye of Fiona, she invites him home to meet the rest of the Gallagher family.
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80%
from 69 members
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Shameless - Series 2, Episode 04
to Watch Now
(2004)
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, James McAvoy
Director: Dearbhla Walsh
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Watch now: FREE
Run time: 49 minutes
Wedding preparations are well under way in the Gallagher house. Dresses are being made, curry dishes are being sampled, courtesy of Yvonne and Frank is showing off the speech he stole from Lip. But when Steve's car gets stolen from outside the church after a visit to the local priest something is ..read more »
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65%
from 14 members
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Shameless - Series 2, Episode 03
to Watch Now
(2004)
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, James McAvoy
Director: Peter Lydon
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Run time: 48 minutes
Things liven up on the Chatsworth Estate when the council run a best kept garden competition with the offer of a years free rent to the lucky winners. Carol sees it as an opportunity to stay well in and stay put at the Gallagher's by turning the back yard into another Eden, but this ruffles ..read more »
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62%
from 15 members
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Shameless - Series 2, Episode 01
to Watch Now
(2004)
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, James McAvoy
Director: David Evans
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Watch now: FREE
Run time: 44 minutes
It's a bad day for Frank when his father, Neville, turns up at Sheila's house to see his new grandchildren. Neville is the antithesis of Frank, a life long union man who never missed a days work in his life and who despairs at Frank's lack of employment, whilst Frank is reduced to a sulking boy in ..read more »
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67%
from 28 members
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Shameless - Series 2, Episode 02
to Watch Now
(2004)
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, James McAvoy
Director: Peter Lydon
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Run time: 46 minutes
It's the end of a big party round at Kev and Veronica's and everyone is lying around stoned in the early hours when the hosts discover that social services are due round in the morning to discuss their application to foster. It's panic stations as Veronica and Kev start cleaning furiously.
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66%
from 14 members
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Shameless - Series 1, Episode 04
to Watch Now
(2003)
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, James McAvoy
Director: Mark Mylod
Certificate:
Watch now: FREE
Run time: 47 minutes
When a child goes missing from a children's party on the Chatsworth estate the police start a frantic hunt for little Jody. However, Fiona and Steve find that Debbie has the girl in her bedroom, having lured her away with chocolate because she just wanted a little sister.
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70%
from 23 members
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Shameless - Series 1, Episode 02
to Watch Now
(2003)
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, James McAvoy
Director: Jonny Campbell
Certificate:
Watch now: FREE
Run time: 49 minutes
After a row with Steve one night Frank mysteriously goes missing. Nothing new in the Gallagher household until Fiona realises it's Friday. He never goes missing on Giro day. The family start a manhunt and panic sets in when a body is found in the canal but Frank turns up in Calais with no ..read more »
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76%
from 33 members
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James McAvoy facts
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dark stuff 29 June 2007
... how good this is...
John Simm, Bill Nighy, David Morrissey, Kelly MacDonald, James McAvoy....written
by Paul 'Shameless' Abbott...the story is one of 'political intrig...
A Brilliantly heart warming comedy! 21 July 2005
This is an awful film 16 April 2007
