Charlie Hunnam

At 44 years old, Charlie Hunnam has this physical status:

Charles Matthew Hunnam (born 10 April 1980) is an English actor.

He is best known for his role as Jackson "Jax" Teller in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy (1999–2002), Pete Dunham in The Lost City of Z (2004), Guy Ritchie's Legend of the Sword (2017).

Early life

Robert Matthew Hunnam was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on April 10, 1980, the son of Jane Bell, a ballet dancer and company owner, and William Hunnam. One of his grandmothers was a portrait painter. He has said that his mother "did a really good job" as a single parent. Oliver and Christian, his older brother, and two younger half brothers on his mother's side.

The family moved to Melmerby, Cumbria, at the age of 12, when his mother remarried. He played rugby and sparred with his classmates during his youth, so he was suspended from Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Penrith, Cumbria, which required him to study and take exams from home. He decided to study the performing arts at the Cumbria College of Art and Design in Carlisle, rather than going to university. He obtained a dual degree in film theory and film history with a focus on performing arts. He wanted to write and direct his own films.

Personal life

In 1999, Hunnam met actress Katharine Towne, the daughter of actress Julie Payne and filmmaker Robert Towne, who all auditioned for roles on Dawson's Creek. They married in Las Vegas after dating for three weeks; in 2002, they divorced; Sophie Dahl, actress Stella Parker, and film producer Georgina Townsley were all dated in subsequent years.

Since 2005, he has been in a friendship with artist Morgana McNelis.

Hunnam suffers from dyslexia, as well as a general fear of germs and dirt. He started training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Rigan Machado and went on to obtain his blue belt in October 2018.

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Career

Hunnam was discovered on Christmas Eve in a JD Sports branch while playing around with his brother while trying to buy shoes. Byker Grove, a Newcastle-based youth drama, approached Hunnam, and he was later cast as Jason for three episodes of the film. He had a brief modeling career before deciding that modeling wasn't for him. Hunnam's first major role came at age 18 when Russell T Davies played as 15-year-old schoolboy Nathan Maloney in Davies' Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk. He continued this trend by portraying Daz in the film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999) and then moved to the United States.

Gregor Ryder's career expanded to include a regular role in the WB's Young Americans. Lloyd Haythe was first introduced as an English drama student in the Fox series Undeclared. Despite critical acclaim, the series was cancelled after one season. Hunnam appeared on the big screen in Abandon (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), and Cold Mountain (2003). Hunnam has said that he does not want to take any role that is offered," he said, "I have 60 years to make the money, but the choices I make in the next five years will really define my career."

This resulted in Pete Dunham's return to the United Kingdom to play the lead role in the film Green Street Hooligans (2005); however, his attempt to provide a Cockney accent resulted in his inclusion in many critics' "worst accents in film history" lists. Hunnam said his role as Patric, a participant of "The Fishes" in Children of Men (2006), was the last part of his "trilogy of mad men": "I played the psycho, and now I play the psychotic."

Hunnam appeared in Sons of Anarchy as Jackson "Jax" Teller, a prominent motorcycle club set in the fictional town of Charming, California, from 2008 to 2014. After Kurt Sutter, the show's producer, saw him in Green Street Hooligans, Hunnam was cast. Hunnam's portrayal as Jax Teller has received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination, three EW Award nominations for Best Lead Actor in a Drama collection, and a PAAFTJ Award nomination for Best Cast in a Drama Series.

In Matthew Chapman's philosophical drama/thriller The Ledge, Hunnam starred Gavin Nichols.

Frankie Go Boom co-star Ron Perlman appeared in the indie comedy 3,2,1... Hunnam said he enjoyed the day he shot scenes with Perlman with Perlman and was the best and funniest day of filming he's had in his career. In Stefan Ruzowitz's crime drama Deadfall (2012), he also appeared as Jay, an ex-boxer.

In Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi film Pacific Rim, which opened in July 2013 and grossed $411 million worldwide, Hunnam starred Raleigh Becket. Hunnam will play Christian Grey in E. L. James' film version of Fifty Shades of Grey, which was revealed on September 2nd, 2013. However, on October 12, 2013, Universal Pictures reported that Hunnam had been withdrawn from the film due to scheduling conflicts with his film Sons of Anarchy.

Hunnam received a Hunnam Award for Best Global Emerging Actor in June 2014 for his role as Raleigh in Pacific Rim, owing to the film's success in Asian markets. In the horror film Crimson Peak, Hunnam reunited with del Toro, Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain. The film debuted in February 2014 and was released on October 16, 2015.

In James Gray's adaptation of author David Grann's 2009 book "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deathly Obsession in the Amazon, Hunnam played Geographer Percy Fawcett. Gray starred in The Lost City of Z, a comedy drama that was shot from August to October 2015. As the closing night selection at the New York Film Festival, the film made its world premiere on October 15, 2016. On April 14, 2017, it was first published in the United States. In Guy Ritchie's action-adventure film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Hunnam appeared as the eponymous title character, which was shot between March and July 2015. In May 2017, it was announced. He appeared in Guy Ritchie's 2019 film The Gentlemen, alongside Matthew McConaughey. In the 2022 mystery/thriller Last Looks, Hunnam portrayed Charlie Waldo, which also included Mel Gibson. Shantaram's first feature on Apple TV+ premiered on October 14, 2022. As Dale Conti/Lindsay "Linbaba" Ford, Hunnam leads the cast of characters. The series is based on Gregory David Roberts' 2003 autobiographical book.

Hunnam's screenplay Vlad to Summit Entertainment co-producing Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment shortly before being cast on Sons of Anarchy. The film is being shot by music video director and photographer Anthony Mandler, and it will be centered on Vlad the Impaler's real life. As Hunnam fired Cold Mountain, he heard the tale from locals in Romania. He said he hadn't been in 18 months and was so broke that if he didn't manage to sell the script, he'd have to sell his house and move back to England to live with his mother.

Hunnam said he was creating a screenplay based on a 2011 Rolling Stone article that he selected about Edgar Valdez Villareal, an American drug lord who operated one of Mexico's biggest cartels. A film about gypsy culture in the United Kingdom is another project he is working on, which he hopes to direct. It is "a part of English society that has never been explored," he said, "but it is one of the most colorful and fascinating aspects of British life."

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