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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
Charles Xavier
for Charles Xavier in X-Men Origins: NIGHTCRAWLER
Suggested by clownprinceofcasting
Young Kurt Wagner is found in basket in the river by a circus master and decides to keep him as a crowd pleaser. It is there Kurt discovers of his mutant ability of teleportation. The Circus Master dubs him The Nightcrawler. He works for the Circus for a number of years untill he is made fun of and treated as a freak by the public. Kurt leaves and meets a woman who claims to be her mother, Raven Darkholme, who has the ability to shapeshift. She tells him that his Father and another Dangerous mutant who can minipulate Metal is after him. Now on the run with his mother must stay safe from the public and the mutants after them. Raven is caught and influenced by the other Mutants. Now it's Kurt 'Nightcrawler' Wager is on his own. He soon meets with a girl who also has the ability to teleport [but by throwing portals]. They soon fall in love. They must team up to take on Azazel, Magneto and Mystique.
