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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.
Now that he's an Avenger, Bruce's life is calmer. He's managed to build his relationship with Betty, the army is no longer hunting him, and he's working with SHIELD on other gamma cases. However, he knows that as the Hulk, everything ends at some point. Soon, he begins to have strange dreams and feels the Hulk changing, no longer just an emotionless beast, with the Emerald Goliath beginning to gain personality and self-awareness, which makes it difficult for Bruce to control him and especially his rage. Right at the moment a gamma creature similar to the Hulk attacks General Ross, leading to suspicion about Bruce, including from Banner himself. While investigating, with the help of Betty and Rick, Bruce discovers Samuel Stern, a scientist he worked with on the gamma bomb project, who was also affected, changing like Bruce, but in a different way. Stern, or Leader as he prefers to be called, wants to give the world the same gift he received, the gamma mutation that made him a superior being. And for that, he relies on the ex-soldier Emil Blonsk, who has become the Abomination and seeks revenge against Hulk and General Ross. This forces the two former enemies to work together to deal with these new threats that target them both, if they want to survive to face tomorrow. The question is, can they put aside their differences and points of view to work together, or will they let their differences get in the way, which will lead to the end of both of them?
