James McAvoy

James McAvoy will portray Professor Charles Xavier in the upcoming film X-Men: First Class

Significant roles

 * Sergeant Bloxham in Lorna Doone (2000)
 * Simon Balcairn in Bright Young Things (2003)
 * Liam in Early Doors (2003)
 * Dan Foster in State of Play (2003)
 * Carl Colt in Wimbledon (2004)
 * Rory O'Shea in Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
 * Steve McBride in Shameless (2004-2005)
 * Mr. Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
 * Dr. Nicholas Garrigan in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
 * Johnny/Max in Penelope (2006)
 * Brian Jackson in Starter for 10 (2006)
 * Tom Lefroy in Becoming Jane (2007)
 * Robbie Turner in Atonement (2007)
 * Wesley Gibson in Wanted (2008), Wanted 2 (2011)
 * Valentin Buglakov in The Last Station (2009)
 * Frederik Aiken in The Conspirator (2010)
 * Gnomeo in Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)

Quotes

 * "I'm basically going to try and bury Patrick's performance," "I think the fun about these films, when you go back and you either reboot or do a prequel, is you get to see how people became who they are," he explained. "That means that you have to do them differently and by the end of the movie you have to do them the same way. The interesting journey is what happens to them, what changes them, what makes them evolve — not just mutate, but emotionally and psychologically evolve."
 * "I would suggest by the end of the movie and the start of the next movie, it'll be more like what Patrick does," "Or maybe not. Maybe it will still be in a period of flux, if there is a new movie."
 * "I think there's a lot of room there for a real connection," McAvoy told us of his hopes for the relationship between the two "First Class" protagonists. "By the end of that relationship, there's still a kind of affection for each other. You see that in the stuff that Patrick and [Sir Ian McKellen] did together. There's a lot of love there, strangely, I think."
 * "I think the fun about these films, when you go back and you either reboot or do a prequel, is you get to see how people became who they are," "That means that you have to do them differently and by the end of the movie you have to do them the same way. The interesting journey is what happens to them, what changes them, what makes them evolve — not just mutate, but emotionally and psychologically evolve."