James McArdle

James McArdle

Born: April 3, 1989
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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 for James McArdle...

Title: Sexy Beast
Character: Gal Dove
Released: January 25, 2024
Type: TV
The origin story of Gal Dove, Don Logan, and Teddy Bass. Explore Gal and Don’s complicated relationship as Gal finds himself descending into the seductive madness of the London criminal world during the vibrant and volatile 1990s while falling in love with DeeDee.
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Title: Star Wars: Andor
Character: Timm Karlo
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: TV
The tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor embarks on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.
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Title: Life After Life
Character: Hugh Todd
Released: April 19, 2022
Type: TV
If you could live your life time and again, would you ever get it right? Ursula dies and is reborn, living through turbulent times - but what is it she needs to stay alive for?
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
Title: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Character: Macbeth
Released: October 27, 2021
Type: Movie
The Almeida Theatre production of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
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Title: Mare of Easttown
Character: Mark Burton
Released: April 18, 2021
Type: TV
A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
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Ammonite
Title: Ammonite
Character: Roderick Murchison
Released: November 13, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
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Scott and Laura
Title: Scott and Laura
Character: Scott
Released: June 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Trapped in fear of his life and desperate to escape the criminal connections of his girlfriend’s family, Scott reaches out to Laura, childhood sweetheart and former fiancé, for help. But old wounds begin to reopen as they both weigh up their options.
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Mary Queen of Scots
Title: Mary Queen of Scots
Character: James, Earl of Moray
Released: December 7, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
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Title: Man in an Orange Shirt
Character: Thomas March
Released: July 31, 2017
Type: TV
A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.
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National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
Title: National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
Character: Louis Ironson/The Angel Australia
Released: July 27, 2017
Type: Movie
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.
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National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
Title: National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
Character: Louis Ironson
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: Movie
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
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On the Road
Title: On the Road
Character: Joe
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs and daily life backstage.
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The Chamber
Title: The Chamber
Character: Parks
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: Movie
The film revolves around a special ops unit who commandeer a commercial research vessel and it’s submersible to locate a mysterious item at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. When an explosion causes the sub to overturn and take on water, the crew begins to understand that not all of them will escape and a fight for survival ensues.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Title: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Character: Niv Lek
Released: December 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
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Salting the Battlefield
Title: Salting the Battlefield
Character: Ted Finch
Released: March 27, 2014
Type: Movie
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.
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Private Peaceful
Title: Private Peaceful
Character: Lt. Buckland
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Title: Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Character: Toby
Released: October 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing his name to Kenny Everett. Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and marries Lee Middleton, who not only sticks by him through his career lows but is sympathetic when, following a drugs over-dose, he admits to being gay. She even helps him find a boyfriend though, unlike his friend Freddie Mercury, he is reluctant to come out. Following their divorce Kenny is best man when Lee marries actor John Alkin and, in 1985, in typically flamboyant style comes out, owing to having not one but two 'husbands'. However, in 1989 he is diagnosed as HIV+ and, in 1995, a year after winning the prestigious Sony award, dies of AIDS aged fifty.
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Title: Appropriate Adult
Character: Stephen West
Released: September 4, 2011
Type: TV
The extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the uncovering of the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West.
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Page Eight
Title: Page Eight
Character: Ted Finch
Released: August 28, 2011
Type: Movie
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
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Recycled
Title: Recycled
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A pair of Scottish children find something strange living in their bin and the situation quickly escalates.
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Title: Playing Nice
Character: Miles Lambert
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?