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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
Albus Dumbledore
for Albus Dumbledore in Voldemort: The Heir (Wizarding World Spinoff)
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"Voldemort: The Heir" is a Gothic character study that traces the transformation of Tom Marvolo Riddle from a charming, brilliant Head Boy into a monster. The story picks up in 1945, immediately after graduation. Riddle, obsessed with immortality and his own heritage, shockingly turns down prestigious Ministry jobs to work as a lowly clerk at Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley. The film explores his psychological descent. It is not an action movie, but a thriller about manipulation. We see Riddle using his beauty and charm to seduce secrets out of the wealthy Hepzibah Smith to acquire the founders' artifacts (Hufflepuff’s Cup, Slytherin’s Locket). The narrative then shifts to his ten-year disappearance into the forests of Albania and the dark corners of Europe. It visualizes the horrific, forbidden rituals used to create the Horcruxes, showing the physical toll they take—his eyes bleeding red, his skin paling, his humanity stripping away piece by piece. It culminates in his return to Hogwarts to ask Dumbledore for the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, no longer Tom Riddle, but fully Lord Voldemort.
