McAvoy, James Filmography

• Frankenstein
  2015, role: actor , character name: Victor Von Frankenstein
• X-Men: Days of Future Past
  2014, role: actor , character name: Charles Xavier
• Filth
  2013, role: producer
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
  2013, role: actor , character name: Conor Ludlow
• Welcome to the Punch
  2013, role: actor , character name: Max Lewinsky
• Trance
  2013, role: actor , character name: Simon
• Filth
  2013, role: actor , character name: Bruce Robertson
• Born in the USSR: 28 Up
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
• Arthur Christmas
  2011, role: actor , character name: Arthur
• X-Men: First Class
  2011, role: actor , character name: Charles Xavier
• Children of the Atom: Filming X-Men: First Class
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Gnomeo & Juliet
  2011, role: actor , character name: Gnomeo
• National Movie Awards
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Farewell 'The Bill'
  2010, role: actor , character name: Gavin Donald
• AMC News Special: Toronto Film Festival 2010
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Conspirator
  2010, role: actor , character name: Frederick Aiken
• The Last Station
  2009, role: actor , character name: Valentin
• Buscando a Penélope
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Live from the Red Carpet: The 2008 Academy Awards
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Wanted
  2008, role: actor , character name: Wesley
• Novel to Screen: Writing Atonement
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo
  2008, role: actor , character name: Robbie Turner
• The 34th Annual People's Choice Awards
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Max on Set: Wanted
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• An Evening at the Academy Awards
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Empire Movie Awards 2008
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 80th Annual Academy Awards
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Adapted Screenplay
• Wanted: Cast and Characters
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• La noche de los Oscar
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Bringing the Past to Life: The Making of 'Atonement'
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Becoming Jane
  2007, role: actor , character name: Tom Lefroy
• Atonement
  2007, role: actor , character name: Robbie Turner
• The 79th Annual Academy Awards
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Sound Mixing
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 78th Annual Academy Awards
  2006, role: actor , character name: Mr. Tumnus, the Faun
• Capturing Idi Amin
  2006, role: actor , character name: Interviewee
• Penelope
  2006, role: actor , character name: Johnny
• Penelope
  2006, role: actor , character name: Max
• Starter for 10
  2006, role: actor , character name: Brian Jackson
• The 78th Annual Academy Awards
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Bloopers of Narnia
  2006, role: actor , character name: Mr. Tumnus
• The Last King of Scotland
  2006, role: actor , character name: Dr. Nicholas Garrigan
• University Challenge: The Story So Far
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Born in the USSR: 21 Up
  2005, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• 'T4' in Narnia
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  2005, role: actor , character name: Mr. Tumnus
• 3rd Irish Film and Television Awards
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by James Mcavoy:

"It's really questioning where humanity is going, and is there a place for the way we perceive things now? Does that have to remain the same? Is anything constant? The world is constantly evolving, as is humanity. It's really about evolution and taking charge of humanity's next step."

"I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film."

"I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate."

"I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing."

"I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day."

"That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people."

"Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important."

"I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!"

"I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened."

"I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs."

"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."

"'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes."

"I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good."

"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."

"I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him."

"Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry."

"I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something."