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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.
James McAvoy
Professor Charles Francis Xavier
for Professor Charles Francis Xavier in The X-Files: The Lost Race
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A Disney+ TV series focusing on key characters of the mutant race, incorporating the X-Men & Mutant storylines into the current MCU timeline. Based on an original reddit idea, where mutants have existed as isolated cases of humans with abnormal genetic variation throughout history. They're a set of rare cases that as of 1982, there have been only 180-200 documented cases/samples of the rare genetic specimens found. Charles Xavier,a leading geneticist and mutant himself with psychic abilities,has been studying about this rare gene mutation. He seeks to know more about them, and the belief of fear and paranoia around them which has existed for thousands of years. He along with another fellow mutant- geneticist ,Hank McKoy embark on a quest to find these mutants and study them from the fringes of human society. By end of the first season they are able to find and interact with a few mutants like a German holocaust survivor Erik Lehnsher(Magneto), an shapeshifting assassin Raven Darkholme(Mystique) etc. Also, they underythat some mutants have been held captive in government facilities for scientific study and experimentation (Like Stryker's facility) who are still hunting for these rare mutants.
