- Speaks French fluently.
- Was once engaged to Catherine Zeta-Jones.
- Played Robert the Bruce in two films: Braveheart (1995) and Robert the Bruce (2019).
- His father was a doctor in the World Health Organization, which explained the moving around to different places when Angus was a child.
- Appeared with Brian Cox a number of times, including his first film The Lost Language of Cranes (1991) and Braveheart (1995).
- Attended the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland and the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England
- Is one of only two British actors to play 'Orson Welles', the other being Christian McKay.
- He has two roles in common with Laurence Olivier: (1) Olivier played Crassus in Spartacus (1960) while Macfayden played him in Spartacus (2004) and (2) Olivier played Zeus in Clash of the Titans (1981) while Macfayden played him in Jason and the Argonauts (2000).
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