The Best James McAvoy Characters

Updated May 15, 2024 30 items

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Join us as we rank James McAvoy's best on-screen characters. The Scottish-born actor made his film debut as Kevin Savage in the 1995 film The Near Room. While the movie didn't get a lot of buzz outside the UK, McAvoy's performance was memorable enough to help kickstart his career. In 2004, he acted alongside Kirsten Dunst in Wimbledon and in 2005 earned his breakout role as the lovable Mr. Tumnus in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

From there, James has played a number of different characters, including a young doctor in The Last King of Scotland, a corrupt cop in Filth, and the telepathic mutant Professor Charles Xavier in the recent X-Men movies. Which of McAvoy’s characters is your favorite?

Vote up the best James McAvoy performance to see which character tops in at number one.

1
Professor X
78 votes
Movies: X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: First Class, X-Men Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix
Years: 2011, 2014, 2016, 2019
2
Kevin Wendell Crumb
64 votes
Movies: Split, Glass
Years: 2016, 2019
3
Bill Denbrough
41 votes
Movie: It: Chapter 2
Year: 2019
4
Robbie Turner
56 votes
Movie: Atonement
Year: 2007
5
Mr. Tumnus
62 votes
Movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Year: 2005
6
Wesley Gibson
46 votes
Movie: Wanted
Year: 2008
7
Gnomeo
46 votes
Movie: Gnomeo & Juliet
Year: 2011
8
Johnny Martin
43 votes
Movie: Penelope
Year: 2006
9
Tom Lefroy
45 votes
Movie: Becoming Jane
Year: 2007
10
Bruce Robertson
37 votes
Movie: Filth
Year: 2013

11
Victor Frankenstein
36 votes
Movie: Victor Frankenstein
Year: 2015
12
David Percival
32 votes
Movie: Atomic Blonde
Year: 2017
13
Anthony Balfour
27 votes
Movie: Regeneration
Year: 1997
14
Conor Ludlow
26 votes
Movie: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Year: 2014
15
Arthur
35 votes
Movie: Arthur Christmas
Year: 2011
16
Dr. Nicholas Garrigan
33 votes
Movie: The Last King of Scotland
Year: 2006
17
Delivery Man
33 votes
Movie: Muppets Most Wanted
Year: 2014
18
Simon Newton
24 votes
Movie: Trance
Year: 2013
19
Max Lewinsky
21 votes
Movie: Welcome to the Punch
Year: 2013
20
James Moore
20 votes
Movie: Submergence
Year: 2017