Brenton Thwaites
Brenton Thwaites was born in Cairns, Queensland, Australia on August 10th, 1989 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 34, Brenton Thwaites biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Brenton Thwaites (born 10 August 1989) is an Australian actor.
He began his career in his homeland in 2011 and later appeared on the soap opera Home and Away.
Thwaites has played a major role in the films Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012), Oculus (2013), Gods of Egypt (2016), and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) since moving to the United States.
Dick Grayson / Nightwing in the DC Universe's series Titans began in 2018.
Early life
Thwaites was born in Cairns, Queensland, on August 10, 1989. He has a sister. In 2006, he graduated from Cairns State High School.
Thwaites was attracted to the prospect of becoming a policeman or a firefighter while growing up, as a teenager, interested in movies involving the latter. However, his passions shifted to filmmaking and "letting [one's] personality shine through so many different characters." Thwaites gave his first appearance in Romeo and Juliet at the age of 16.
Thwaites worked at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for three years before graduating in 2010. He then moved to Sydney to join the long-running soap opera Home and Away before heading to the United States in 2011/12 to continue his acting career.
Personal life
Thwaites has been in a relationship with Chloe Pacey since the two were roommates when Thwaites was filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in Australia.
Career
Thwaites made his film debut in Charge Over You, a 2010 independent film, prior to graduating from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Thwaites appeared in an episode of Sea Patrol and as Headsmen in the short film.
Thwaites appeared in a recent Fox8 Australian teenager drama series called Slide in November 2010. Five Brisbane teenagers are on their way to adulthood on this show. Luke Gallagher, according to Thwaites, "stands back a little." He watches. He's having problems with his family. He's joined because it was a chance to meet new people and the opportunity to be a part of a community. He's a cool, accepted boy. Some friends he can love and help him mature." In the series' premiere episode on August 16, Thwaites made his first appearance on Slide. The series ran for one season.
In the 24th season of Home and Away, Thwaites took the role of Stu Henderson shortly after moving to Sydney in April 2011. Thwaites said the show was a learning journey and that his co-stars were fun to work with. On August 23, 2011, Thwaites made his debut as Stu, a River Boys member. Thwaites was a "bit too pretty to be a bad-ass River Boy," according to Tristan Swanwick of The Courier-Mail, but that some fake tattoos would change that picture. "Stu's awesome, he has some fights, he gets the girls, it's great fun," Thwaites said of his character.
Following Thwaites' transfer to the United States, he committed to act in the 2012 television film Blue Lagoon: The Awakening opposite Indiana Evans. The film received mostly mixed reviews, with Zap2it applauding both Thwaite and Evans' "(most) believable" performances and the New York Times praising them as superior to those of the leads in the first film of the series's.
Thwaites appeared as the male lead Tim Russell in the psychological/supernatural horror film Oculus in 2013. The film was started in October 2012 in Alabama and was finished a few weeks later. The film premiered on September 5, 2013, at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and on April 11, 2014, it was announced worldwide. Russell's role as Russell was well-received by Indiewire, which stated that Thwaites had a "credibly fearless demeanor" throughout the film.
Thwaites returned to Australia for a short time in 2014 for the filming of Crime thriller Son of a Gun. Thwaites had to audition for the role "up to ten times before landing the role" in Perth, Kalgoorlie, and Melbourne. Thwaites recalled his character, "I jumped at the chance to audition when this came up, and I found the character to be a very vulnerable child amongst strange men that are in someway an inspiration." "I just thought it was interesting as a young man." Thwaites received acclaim for his portrayal of JR, with Variety claiming that he "makes a properly keen, clean-scrubbed lead, while the actor's blood supply rises." On October 16, 2014, the film premiered in Australia.
Thwaites debuted in Maleficent as Prince Phillip in 2014. In 2019, a Maleficent sequel was published, but Harris Dickinson was recast in Thwaites' role because he was unable to return due to scheduling conflicts. Nic Eastman, the male lead in The Signal, appeared in The Signal in addition. In January, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, seven months after shooting on location in New Mexico's desert. In a study by The Plain Dealer, Thwaites' performance in The Signal was "as a convincing presence in the driver's seat as the weather becomes more and more traumatic around him."
He appeared in The Giver earlier this year, playing Jonas. The film, which was primarily shot in South Africa, received mostly critical feedback, with The Telegraph criticizing Thwaites' portrayal of "he [struggled] to bring us the layered, conflicted hero [needed]." The Huffington Post, which lauded Thwaites' performance and The Plain Dealer's statement that "the fast-rising Thwaites...does a good job with the lead role." In Film "Breakthrough Award" he was given the Australian award for his work in The Giver.
In Gods of Egypt, Thwaites appeared. He played Bek, a human thief. Principal photography on the film began on March 20, 2014 at the Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia, and the film was released worldwide on February 26, 2016.
Thwaites appeared in the fantasy-adventure sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which was released on May 26th, 2017. Henry Turner, the son of franchise characters Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, is depicted in Thwaites. On the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia, shooting of the film began in February 2015.
Thwaites played a key role in the 2017 Christian film An Interview with God, which portrays a young journalist, Paul Asher. In the DC Universe series Titans, the waitresses were then portrayed as Dick Grayson / Robin.