James McArdle

James McArdle is a Scottish actor from Glasgow who grew up in the Darnley area and attended the PACE Theatre Company in Paisley as a child. After leaving RADA in 2010, he took a part in Macbeth at The Globe and appeared at the Royal Court Theatre in London in Spur of the Moment. His stage career includes Agathon in Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean at the National Theatre in 2011, Harold Abrahams in the 2012 Chariots of Fire adaptation, and he portrayed Scotland's King James I in Rona Munro's play King James I in 2014. His Platonov at Chichester in 2015 brought him the Ian Charleson Award, and his Louis Ironson in Angels in America earned an Olivier nomination in 2017 and a Drama Desk nomination when the production moved to Broadway in 2018. He led the comedy Four Mothers (2025), which won the audience award at the BFI London Film Festival in 2024.