James McArdle
Date of birth: 1989-04-03
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: James Mcardle
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).
Movie Credits
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021-10-27
Following one couple's spine-chilling quest for power, this performance was captured during its orig
Recycled
2002-01-01
A pair of Scottish children find something strange living in their bin and the situation quickly esc
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
2012-10-02
Told with the help of some of his most famous comic characters including Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pos
Private Peaceful
2012-10-12
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl
The Chamber
2016-08-26
A special ops unit commandeer a commercial research vessel and its submersible to locate a mysteriou
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015-12-15
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the
On the Road
2016-10-09
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
2017-07-27
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration,
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
2017-07-20
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America
Page Eight
2011-08-28
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file wh
Salting the Battlefield
2014-03-27
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on
Mary Queen of Scots
2018-12-07
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne
Ammonite
2020-11-13
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by
Scott and Laura
2020-06-10
Trapped in fear of his life and desperate to escape the criminal connections of his girlfriend’s fam
Four Mothers
2025-04-04
Edward, a gay novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brin