James McAvoy

Starring in the 2008 action blockbuster, Wanted, alongside Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, the Scottish actor James McAvoy has come a long way since his working-class childhood in the outskirts of Glasglow. WashingtonPost.com Fear of Fame (December 4, 2007) A 2008 Golden Globe nominee for Atonement, McAvoy also played Mr. Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Dr. Nicholas Garrigan, opposite Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, in The Last King of Scotland.

McAvoy's parents divorced by the time he was seven years old. Abandoned by his father, McAvoy lived with his mother and her parents in the Drumchapel housing projects near Glasgow, Scotland. Raised by strict grandparents in an unsafe neighborhood, McAvoy was not allowed to be outside at night until he was 15 years old. WashingtonPost.com Fear of Fame (December 4, 2007)

• 2001: Pvt. James Miller in Band of Brothers
• 2003: Simon Balcairn in Bright Young Things
• 2004: Carl Colt in Wimbledon
• 2005: Mr. Tumnus, the Faun in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• 2006: Dr. Nicholas Garrigan in The Last King of Scotland
• 2007: Tom Lefroy in Becoming Jane
• 2007: Robbie Turner in Atonement
• 2008: Wesley Gibson in Wanted