James McAvoy won the Orange Rising Star Award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2006.

McAvoy got his first big international break playing the role of Leto Atreides II in the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series Children of Dune (adapted from Frank Herbert’s novels) which aired in 2003. In the same year he was on the big screen in Stephen Fry’s directorial debut Bright Young Things, and appeared in BBC television serial State of Play, written by Paul Abbott.

In 2004 he starred as Steve McBride in another Abbott-written drama series, Shameless on Channel 4, for which he was nominated for the British Comedy Award for Best TV Newcomer. He also played Rory O’Shea, an Irish teenager who has muscular dystrophy in Inside I’m Dancing and appeared in the romantic comedy Wimbledon.

Since then James has established his reputation as a major talent, with roles in the adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel, Atonement, and as Dr Nicholas Garrigan in The Last King of Scotland. Most recently he’s starred in Wanted, alongside Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.

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The Orange Rising Star Award

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