James McArdle
Birthday: 1989-04-03
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Biography: James McArdle is a Scottish actor from Glasgow. Having worked as a child actor in films, he trained at RADA, graduating in 2010. In his graduation year he appeared in Macbeth at The Globe and starred in the summer smash hit Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He then played in plays such as A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, Chariots of Fire by Mike Bartlett and Platonov for which he won the Ian Charleson Award. On screens, he is known for movies such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), '71 (2014) and Salting the Battlefield (2014).
Movies
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Following one couple's spine-chilling quest for power, this performance was captured during its orig...
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Recycled
A pair of Scottish children find something strange living in their bin and the situation quickly esc...
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Told with the help of some of his most famous comic characters including Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pos...
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Private Peaceful
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl...
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The Chamber
A special ops unit commandeer a commercial research vessel and its submersible to locate a mysteriou...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the...
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On the Road
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were ...
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National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, ...
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National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America...
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Page Eight
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file wh...
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Salting the Battlefield
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on ...
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Mary Queen of Scots
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...
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Ammonite
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by...
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Scott and Laura
Trapped in fear of his life and desperate to escape the criminal connections of his girlfriend’s fam...
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Four Mothers
Edward, a gay novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brin...
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