Nicholas Hoult - Overview

Date of Birth: Dec 07, 1989

Place of Birth: United Kingdom

Nationality: United Kingdom

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Nicholas Hoult grew up from a boy to a man, literally, in front of the cameras. The British actor delivered a standout performance in the touching comedy feature "About a Boy" (2002), where he played an awkward schoolboy who teaches valuable life lessons to a shallow bachelor (Hugh Grant). It only took a few years, however, for Hoult to shed his wholesome image - as well as his clothes - for the highly controversial and provocative series "Skins" (Channel 4, 2007). Playing a manipulative and sexually charged young man on the British series transformed Hoult from a child star to a serious actor, paving the way for a featured role opposite Colin Firth in Tom Ford's directorial debut "A Single Man" (2009). Landing more film projects and a modeling campaign for Ford's eyewear line, Hoult emerged as a sophisticated and versatile young actor with some of the best eyebrows in the business. In 2011, he ventured into blockbuster film territory by starring in "X-Men: First Class" as the powerful mutant Beast, a role that signaled the beginning of Hoult's international adult... Read More

Filmography (9)

Jack the Giant Killer (2013)

X-Men: First Class (2011)

Clash of the Titans (2010)

A Single Man (2009)

The Weather Man (2005)

Photos (1)

Milestones (8)

2011
Portrayed the Beast in the prequel to the "X-Men" film series, "X-Men: First Class"

2007 - 2008
Played the lead role of Tony Stonem in the first two series of the British drama "Skins"

2005
Cast as Nicholas Cage's son in "The Weather Man" a film by director Gore Verbinski

2005
Played the young Richard E. Grant in the actor's directorial debut, the autobiographical "Wah-Wah," an account of his extraordinary childhood spent in Swaziland

2002
Earned critical acclaim in his first leading role as Marcus Brewer in "About a Boy" opposite Hugh Grant and based on Nick Hornby's best-selling novel

1996
At age of five, appeared in "Intimate Relations," with Julie Walters and Rupert Graves

Major Acheivement
Discovered at the age of three, by a theatre director, while watching a play

Photos From Last Movie (1)

Movie: Jack the Giant Killer
Nicholas Hoult as Jack in "Jack the Giant Killer."