James McArdle

Acting

James McArdle

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Apr 03, 1989 (36 years old)

James McArdle

Known For

Four Mothers
1h 29m
Movie 2025

Four Mothers

Edward, a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother,...

Playing Nice
TV Show 2025

Playing Nice

Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that...

Sexy Beast
TV Show 2024

Sexy Beast

The origin story of Gal Dove, Don Logan, and Teddy...

Life After Life
TV Show 2022

Life After Life

If you could live your life time and again, would...

Mare of Easttown
1h 0m
TV Show 2021

Mare of Easttown

A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local...

Ammonite
1h 58m
Movie 2020

Ammonite

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman...

Mary Queen of Scots
2h 4m
Movie 2018

Mary Queen of Scots

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France,...

On the Road
1h 52m
Movie 2016

On the Road

North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to...

The Chamber
1h 30m
Movie 2016

The Chamber

A special ops unit commandeer a commercial research vessel and...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2h 16m
Movie 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and...

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).