James McArdle
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).
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Niv LekThirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from...
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Mary Queen of Scots
as James, Earl of MorayIn 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful...
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Ammonite
as Roderick MurchisonIn 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to...
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Page Eight
as Ted FinchJohnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable...
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Private Peaceful
as Lt. BucklandSet in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same...
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Salting the Battlefield
as Ted FinchDavid Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue...
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The Chamber
as ParksThe film revolves around a special ops unit who commandeer a commercial research vessel and it’s...
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National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
as Louis IronsonThe National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
as MacbethThe Almeida Theatre production of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
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National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
as Louis Ironson/The Angel AustraliaAmerica in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan...
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On the Road
as JoeNorth London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing...
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
as TobySchoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is...
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Scott and Laura
as ScottTrapped in fear of his life and desperate to escape the criminal connections of his girlfriend’s...
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Star Wars: Andor
as Timm KarloThe tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became...
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Mare of Easttown
as Mark BurtonA detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her...
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Sexy Beast
as Gal DoveThe origin story of Gal Dove, Don Logan, and Teddy Bass. Explore Gal and Don’s complicated...
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Man in an Orange Shirt
as Thomas MarchA love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and...
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Life After Life
as Hugh ToddIf you could live your life time and again, would you ever get it right? Ursula dies and is...
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Appropriate Adult
as Stephen WestThe extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the...
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Playing Nice
as Miles LambertSet against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover their toddlers were switched at...
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