<P> James McAvoy (/ ˈmækəvɔɪ /; born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor . He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and made mostly television appearances until 2003, when his feature film career began . His notable television work includes the thriller State of Play and the science fiction mini-series Frank Herbert's Children of Dune . </P> <P> Besides screen acting, McAvoy has performed in several West End productions and received three nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor . He has also done voice work for animated films including Gnomeo & Juliet, its sequel, Sherlock Gnomes, and Arthur Christmas . </P> <P> In 2003, McAvoy appeared in a lead role in Bollywood Queen . This was followed by a supporting role, 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 . The critically acclaimed romantic drama war film Atonement (2007) earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination and his second BAFTA nomination . He appeared as a newly trained assassin in the action thriller Wanted (2008). Since 2011, he has played the young Professor Charles Xavier in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011), a role he reprised in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018) and X-Men: 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 2017, he portrayed Kevin, a man with 23 personalities, in M. Night Shyamalan's Split, for which he received critical acclaim . </P> <P> McAvoy was born in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday, 21 April 1979, the son of Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a psychiatric nurse, and James McAvoy, Sr., a builder . He was brought up as a Roman Catholic . His parents divorced when he was seven . McAvoy's mother suffered from poor health and subsequently decided it was best that he live with his maternal grandparents, Mary and James Johnstone, a butcher who lived in a terraced council house in the nearby Drumchapel area of Glasgow . His mother lived with them intermittently . McAvoy has a sister, Joy, and a younger half - brother, Donald . McAvoy has not been in contact with his father since childhood . </P>

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