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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.
Despite the unlikely union of those five heroes saving the world from Loki's threat, many doubts and questions remain about the Avengers. People, whether from the public or the media, still have difficulty seeing them as heroes. But can you blame them? They have in their ranks a pagan god, a creature responsible for death and destruction, who until yesterday was an enemy of the state, a pair of heroes who aren't all that great, and a man known for his lack of common sense and arrogance. It's not exactly a dream team. Wanting to recreate the experiment that gave the Fantastic Four their powers, Simon Utrecht and his colleagues try to replicate it, generating an explosion that caught the attention of the Avengers. Even with the heroes' interference, it somehow worked, with their physiognomies changing thanks to the radiation exposure, gaining powers. They soon become the U-Foes, a team of heroes, sharing the spotlight with the Avengers. They quickly become New York's favorite heroes, despite the mess they usually leave behind when involved, which doesn't usually make it into the media. It's then that the Avengers discover that many of the incidents the U-Foes are involved in are staged, all just publicity stunts, putting other people's lives at risk for fame. This makes a confrontation between the teams inevitable. Especially when the U-Foes decide that New York is too small for them and the Avengers, leading them to attack the team.
