James McArdle

Acting

James McArdle

Born 1989-04-03 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 18 films

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 …

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Filmography

18 films
Four Mothers poster

Edward, a gay novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the bri…

Four Mothers

★ 6.8 2025

Ammonite poster

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce b…

Ammonite

★ 6.9 2020

Scott and Laura poster

Trapped in fear of his life and desperate to escape the criminal connections of his girlfriend’s fa…

Scott and Laura

★ 0.0 2020

On the Road poster

North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were…

On the Road

★ 4.6 2016

The Chamber poster

A special ops unit commandeer a commercial research vessel and its submersible to locate a mysterio…

The Chamber

★ 5.3 2016