![]() ![]() Hunnam starred as Raleigh Becket in Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi film Pacific Rim, which opened in July 2013 and grossed $411 million worldwide. He also appeared as Jay, an ex-boxer, in Stefan Ruzowitzky's crime drama Deadfall (2012). Hunnam said he considered the day he filmed scenes with Perlman the best and funniest day of filming he's had in his career. Frankie Go Boom alongside his Sons of Anarchy co-star Ron Perlman. In 2012, he starred as the title character in the indie comedy 3,2,1. In 2011, Hunnam played the role of Gavin Nichols in the philosophical drama/thriller The Ledge by Matthew Chapman. ![]() His portrayal as Jax Teller has led Hunnam to receive a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination, three EWwy Award nominations for Best Lead Actor in a Drama series, and a PAAFTJ Award nomination for Best Cast in a Drama Series. Hunnam was cast after Kurt Sutter, the creator of the show, saw him in Green Street. Hunnam said his role as Patric, a member of "The Fishes" in Children of Men (2006), was the final part in his "trilogy of mad men": "I played the psycho in Cold Mountain, my character in Green Street hooligan is fairly psychotic and now I've got this role." 2008–2012 įrom 2008 to 2014, Hunnam starred as Jackson "Jax" Teller in Sons of Anarchy, a show about a prominent motorcycle club in a small fictional California town. This decision resulted in his return to the UK to take the lead role of Pete Dunham in the film Green Street (2005) however, his attempt at delivering a Cockney accent resulted in his inclusion in many critics' "worst accents in movie history" lists. Hunnam has stated that he does not wish to simply take any role that is offered, saying, "I have 60 years to make the money, but the choices I make in the next five years are really going to define my career." Hunnam then appeared on the large screen in Abandon (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), and Cold Mountain (2003). ![]() Despite critical acclaim, the series was cancelled after one season. ![]() He then appeared in the short-lived Fox series Undeclared as an English drama student called Lloyd Haythe. His career expanded to include a recurring role as Gregor Ryder in the WB series Young Americans. He followed this up with his role as Daz in the film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999) and then moved to the United States. Hunnam's first major role came at age 18 when he was cast by Russell T Davies as 15-year-old schoolboy Nathan Maloney in Davies' Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk. He also had a brief modeling career where he did a photo shoot for Kangol Caps and then decided modeling was not for him. A production manager for the Newcastle-based children's show Byker Groveapproached Hunnam and he was later cast in his first role as Jason in three episodes of the show. Hunnam was discovered at the age of 17 in a branch of Pavers Shoes on Christmas Eve, while playing around with his brother during a trip to buy shoes. After that, instead of going to university, he decided to go to the Cumbria College of Art and Design in Carlisle (now part of the University of Cumbria) to study performing arts he graduated with a degree in film theory and film history with a side in performing arts, aiming to write and direct his own films. During his adolescence, he played rugby and fought with his classmates, so he was expelled from Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Penrith, Cumbria, which forced him to study and to take exams from home. Īt age 12, when his mother remarried, the family moved to Melmerby, Cumbria. He has an older brother named William and two younger half brothers on his mother's side named Oliver and Christian. He has said that his mother "did a very good job" of being a single parent. One of his grandmothers was a portrait artist. Charles Matthew Hunnam was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 10 April 1980, the son of Jane Bell, a ballet dancer and business owner, and William Hunnam. ![]()
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