James McAvoy, also known as Jamesy Boy or Jimmy is a Scottish actor of movies and TV shows. He was born on the 21st of April 1979, and in 2015 his current age is 36 years old. James was born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK in a middle class family. He was born as the one of the two kids to a psychiatric nurse named Elizabeth and his father was a builder named James McAvoy, Sr. Raised up in their home, his parents got divorced when James was 7 years old, and it was hard on his mother’s part who took the divorce so hard that her health condition got worse. So, he was sent to live up with his grandparents; who lived in the nearby Drumchapel area. He has got a half-brother from his mother’s second marriage and doesn’t have any contacts with his father. As a child, he attended the St. Thomas Aquinas School in Jordanhill, Glasgow and also worked part time in a bakery to bear his own expenses. He was on the verse of joining a Catholic school and becoming a priest, but decided to become an actor when he got a small role in a movie, at 15. Born and raised in Glasgow, he is of Scottish nationality and belongs to white ethnicity.
He is not the tallest of person James, and has an average height. He measures about a 170 cm, which is 5 feet and 7 inches in height. He is known for his charming face, his Scottish green eyes, his brown colored hair and a smiling face. A confident young man, he also is believed to have a very modest person and possesses a good sense of humor. With a body weight of 70 kg, he has got an athletic figure and does his exercises regularly. He has shown off his body in many shirtless pictures that can be found on the media. Also, he has played in many bold roles in movies, and has given some bed scenes as well. From the exposed photos that we can find of his body, we believe he doesn’t have any tattoos on his body.
Although there have been rumors about him and his girlfriends, and people often link up his name with the actresses whom he has onscreen romance with, not all of those rumors are true. He doesn’t have a long dating list and certainly hasn’t got many affairs, or at least we believe that he hasn’t. The media has information about his married life, and that he and his wife Anne-Marie Duff, who is also an actress got married in 2006. With almost 10 years to their marriage, they have got one child together, and no signs of divorce in their relationship. He is also believed to have had affairs with actress Emma Neilson between 1995 and 2002. He certainly is not a gay, although there have been rumors about it.
He started to act from a young age and since then has appeared in several movies and TV shows. He has worked in Scotland, Britain as well as Hollywood and some of his famous works have come in: Band of Brothers (2001), State of Play (2003), Shameless (2004), The Last Station (2009), X-Men: First Class (2011), Muppets Most Wanted (2014) and many others. In order to know more about him, you can read his biography that is available in sites like IMDB and Wikipedia. You can also stay close to him, by following him in his social site accounts like Twitter and also check his pictures out in his official Instagram page. By 2015, his estimated net worth is about $17 million US dollars.