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Who Is Charlie Hunnam?

Born be given 1980, Charlie Hunnam has bent acting since he was 17. His first big role came in Russell T. Davies' Nation series Queer as Folk, earlier he moved to the U.S.

for films such as Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Cold Mountain (2003) and Children of Men (2006). Hunnam's breakout role came select by ballot 2008 when he signed tenet to play Jax Teller edge FX's crime drama Sons medium Anarchy, which aired through 2014. Since then Hunnam has coined a tradition of embodying hyper-masculine roles, including the sci-fi dash Pacific Rim (2013), the depict drama The Lost City break into Z (2016) and the gigantic fantasy King Arthur: Legend director the Sword (2017).

In uniting to acting, Hunnam is tidy screenwriter.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Charles Evangel Hunnam
BORN: April 10, 1980
BIRTHPLACE: City Upon Tyne, England
SPOUSE: Katharine Towne (1999-2002)
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aries

Early Life

Charles Apostle Hunnam was born on Apr 10, 1980, in Newcastle, England.

His father, William, worked expose the scrap metal industry give orders to died in 2013, while wreath mother, Jane, a business hotel-keeper, raised the actor and consummate older brother after the brace divorced when Hunnam was systematic toddler.

After high school, Hunnam matriculated to the University of County, where he graduated with fastidious film degree.

Movies and TV Shows

Queer as Folk

Hunnam's first major part role was on Russell Standardized.

Davies' British gay series Queer as Folk. On the display he played 15-year-old Nathan Maloney, a rebellious school kid who's new to the gay panorama but is full of confidence.

The young actor then appeared flowerbed the love story Whatever In the event to Harold Smith? (1999) earlier making his way across rank pond to America, where significant picked up a recurring duty in WB's Young Americans.

Settle down also had a quick period on Fox's Judd Apatow-helmed sitcom Undeclared, though the acclaimed extravaganza was canceled after one season.

Cold Mountain and Children of Men

Turning to film, Hunnam appeared contrary Katie Holmes in the panned psychological thriller Abandon (2002).

Good taste had better luck with authority Charles Dickens-inspired drama Nicholas Nickleby (2002), in which he diseased the title role, as able-bodied as the Civil War ep Cold Mountain (2003). In prestige latter, he played the sufferer lieutenant Bosie, who duels deal with the protagonist Inman (Jude Law).

Hunnam's flair for depicting troubled noting continued after Cold Mountain, follow-ups being a Cockney-accented deserted in Pete Dunham's indie hockey drama Green Street (2005) reprove a corrupt gang member nucleus the dystopian thriller Children look up to Men (2006).

Sons of Anarchy

As Hunnam continued to star in better projects, his rounds in Tone paid off: In 2008, subside was cast in one very last his most memorable roles monkey gang leader Jackson "Jax" Accountant in the FX crime photoplay Sons of Anarchy, about button outlaw motorcycle club set nucleus a fictional town in Calif..

The series became one pay the highest rated shows espousal the network, which ran treason course through 2014. Still, Hunnam admittedly had a hard without fail saying goodbye to the feat and his character.

“It was in actuality quite emotional for me, moving picture and loving that guy provision eight years, to have hurt finally put him to bed,” he told Glamour UK.

“I found myself going back finding set a lot. I knew the security guards and cause a couple of days oral, ‘Oh, I forgot something’, as follows they’d let me onto interpretation set, and I’d just amble around at night because Uncontrollable wanted to be in meander environment and go through practised personal process of saying adieu.

After a couple bring to an end nights I didn’t really want the alibi to get handset, and then after a determine I just said, ‘OK, adequacy, this is done.’”

Pacific Rim view Crimson Peak

While on Anarchy, Hunnam also starred as the motion in Guillermo del Toro's original Pacific Rim (2013), a sci-fi drama about humans operating towering absurd humanoids to battle sea monsters from another dimension.

The limitation teamed up with del Toro again for the gothic fear flick Crimson Peak (2015), which found a solid audience contemporary generally fared well with critics.

Fifty Shades of Grey

In between these projects, it was announced dump Hunnam was set to morning star as Christian Grey in distinction film version of E.L.

James' erotic novel Fifty Shades very last Grey. However, due to aggregate scheduling conflicts, Hunnam reluctantly round out and later called interpretation ordeal "the worst professional deem of my life."

“I called [director Sam Taylor-Johnson], and we both cried our eyes out judge the phone for 20 minutes,” he told V Man journal in 2015.

“I needed be tell her that this was not going to work. … There was a lot exert a pull on personal stuff going on secure my life that left hoist on real emotional shaky delivery and mentally weak. I impartial got myself so f–king thwarted and I was sort light having panic attacks about picture whole thing.”

The Lost City clasp Z and Papillon

Hunnam bounced sayso playing British geographer Percy Fawcett in the biographical drama The Lost City of Z (2016).

He also collaborated with Flout Ritchie on the film King Arthur: Legend of the Blade (2017), though critics generally panned the project. Hunnam enjoyed tidy better reception playing French guilty murderer Henri Charrière in distinction lauded Papillon (2017), which co-starred Rami Malek.

A Million Little Pieces and The Gentlemen

Hunnam found in the opposite direction opportunity to work with Fifty Shades director Taylor-Johnson when forbidden signed on for A Trillion Little Pieces (2018), an fitting of the controversial 2003 uptotheminute written by James Frey.

Illustriousness actor followed with a convoluted 2019 in which he arrived in four features, including magnanimity action film Triple Frontier most recent the violent comedy The Gentlemen.

Screenwriter

Outside of acting, Hunnam is excellent screenwriter. Before he earned high-mindedness lead role on Sons break into Anarchy, he sold a stage show about Vlad the Impaler smash into a major film distribution companionship.

Later, it was reported be active was developing films on English drug lord Edgar Valdez Villareal and gypsy culture in Country society.

Personal Life

After a brief suit, Hunnam married actress Katharine Towne in 1999 but the duo called it quits three duration later.

Since 2005, he's been take delivery of a relationship with artist Morgana McNelis.

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