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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.
In the same universe as the Underworld trilogy including Marvel's the Underworld, The Underworld: Darkened, and The Underworld: Foreverland we see this new film taking place 5 years after it with an already established Marvel Universe. When Loki comes to Earth from Asgard to rule it after Thor was chosen over him by Odin to rule Asgard, Earth's mightiest heroes including Captain America, Iron Man, Falcon, Antman, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Hulk come together to fight him while Thor and his army also come to Earth to take Loki back to Asgard. After failing to beat him the first time the Avengers team up with Thor to try once again and end up winning. The Asgardians take Loki back to Asgard while Thor stays on Earth after meeting and falling in love with a paramedic named Jane Foster. The movie ends with Thor joining the Avengers and in the post credits scene we see Nick Fury talking to his lawyer Matthew Murdock about bringing the Defenders back for one more mission.
