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James McAvoy (born April 21, 1979) is a Scottish actor. He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and appeared mostly on television until 2003, when his feature film career began. His notable television work includes the thriller State of Play, science fiction miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune and the channel 4s BAFTA award-winning series Shameless (British TV series) He has performed in several West End productions and has received four nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, and has also done voice work for animated films including Gnomeo & Juliet, its sequel Sherlock Gnomes, and Arthur Christmas. In 2003, McAvoy appeared in a lead role in Bollywood Queen, then in another lead role as Rory in Inside I'm Dancing in 2004. This was followed by a supporting role, as the faun Mr. Tumnus, in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). His performance in Kevin Macdonald's drama The Last King of Scotland (2006) garnered him several award nominations, including the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. The critically acclaimed romantic drama war film Atonement (2007) earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination and his second BAFTA nomination. He later appeared as a newly trained assassin in the action thriller Wanted (2008). In 2011, McAvoy portrayed Professor Charles Xavier in the superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Dark Phoenix (2019). McAvoy starred in the crime comedy-drama film Filth (2013), for which he won Best Actor in the British Independent Film Awards. In 2016, he portrayed Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man with 23 alternate personalities, in M. Night Shyamalan's Split, for which he received critical acclaim, and later reprised the role for the sequel Glass (2019). Since 2019, he has portrayed Lord Asriel Belacqua in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials.
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for Ulysses Manning in Attack of Shadows
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Attack of Shadows is a 2026 American epic science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron, based on the novel of the same name by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. It is a sequel to Kill Team, the fourth installment in the Galaxy's Edge film series and the only film in the series not to feature Vin Diesel's character Cohen Chhun. The film stars Colin Farrell, Lucas Black, Peter Weller, Naomie Harris, Keegan-Michael Key, and James McAvoy. Attack of Shadows was released on August 19th, 2026, 7 months after Kill Team; the film received mixed reviews, with praise for the visual effects, action sequences, tone, cinematography, musical score, and Farrell's performance but with criticism to the plot, pacing, characters, and Cameron's screenplay and direction. The film was a box-office bomb, grossing $179.56 million against a budget of $368 million, and marketing costs between $160 million and $200 million. A concluding sequel entitled Legionnaire: Legends Never Die was released back-to-back months later.
