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James McAvoy

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James McAvoy

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Also known as James Andrew McAvoy

Scottish actor (born 1979)

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James McAvoy is a male person from Glasgow who began his work period in 1995. He was born on April 21, 1979, and has one child. His official website is jamesmcavoy.com.

According to Crossref, he has five works, while Open Library lists zero works under his name. On Last.fm, his name is associated with 468 listeners and a playcount of 4493. He is referenced by 637 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1979-04-21
Works
0

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Glasgow
Active from
1979-04-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
468
Total plays
4,493

James Andrew McAvoy (April 21, 1979[1]) is a BAFTA-winning Scottish actor. McAvoy's first roles were in David Hayman's The Near Room in 1995 and then as Anthony Balfour in Pat Barker's Regeneration in 1997. McAvoy got his first big international break playing the role of Leto Atreides II in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries Children of Dune (adapted from Frank Herbert’s novels) which aired in 2003. In 2004 he starred as Steve McBride in another Abbott-written drama series <a href="https://www.last.f

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

    · 2021 · cited 85,040x

  2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

    · 1976 · cited 68,291x

  3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,856x

  4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,510x

  5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

    · 1988 · cited 31,716x

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Encyclopedic overview

James McAvoy (/ˈmækəvɔɪ/; born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor and director. He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and appeared mostly on television until 2003, when his film career began. His television work includes the thriller State of Play (2003), the science fiction miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003), and the drama series Shameless (2004–2005).

McAvoy gained recognition for playing Mr. Tumnus in the fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and an assassin in the action film Wanted (2008). After winning the inaugural BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2006, his performances in the period dramas The Last King of Scotland (2006) and Atonement (2007) gained him BAFTA Award nominations. In 2011 he voiced the title characters in Arthur Christmas and Gnomeo & Juliet, and portrayed Charles Xavier in the superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in subsequent installments of the X-Men series.

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