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Nicholas Hoult

Nicholas Hoult

Birthday: 1989-12-07 | Place of Birth: Wokingham, England, UK

Nicholas Caradoc Hoult (born 7 December 1989) is an English actor. His body of work includes supporting work in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in both the American and the British film industries. He has been nominated for awards such as a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Born and raised in Wokingham, Berkshire, Hoult was drawn to acting from a young age and appeared in local theatre productions as a child. He made his screen debut at age seven in the 1996 film Intimate Relations, and appeared in several television programmes between 1998 and 2001. Hoult's breakthrough role came when he played Marcus Brewer in the 2002 comedy-drama film About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He achieved wider recognition and praise for his performance as Tony Stonem in the E4 teen comedy-drama series Skins (2007–2008). His transition to adult roles began with the 2009 drama film A Single Man, for which he earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, and the fantasy film Clash of the Titans (2010). He was cast as the mutant Hank McCoy in Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in later instalments of the series. In 2013, Hoult played the lead title role in the fantasy adaptation Jack the Giant Slayer and starred as a zombie in romantic comedy Warm Bodies. Following a supporting role in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Hoult starred in a number of independent films before portraying various real-life figures such as Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford in the historical black comedy The Favourite (2018), writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019), and Peter III in the Hulu comedy-drama series The Great (2020–present). In 2021, he starred in the survival thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Those Who Wish Me Dead

as    Patrick Blackwell

2020
The Banker

as    Matt Steiner

2020
The Great

as    Peter III of Russia

2019
Dark Phoenix

as    Hank McCoy / Beast

2019
Tolkien

as    J.R.R. Tolkien

2019
The Current War

as    Nikola Tesla

2019
True History of the Kelly Gang

as    Sgt. Fitzpatrick

2018
Watership Down

as    Fiver (voice)

2018
The Favourite

as    Harley

2017
Collide

as    Casey Stein

2017
Rebel in the Rye

as    J.D. Salinger

2017
Sand Castle

as    Matt Ocre

2016
X-Men: Apocalypse

as    Hank McCoy / Beast

2015
Dark Places

as    Lyle Wirth

2015
Mad Max: Fury Road

as    Nux

2015
Equals

as    Silas

2015
Kill Your Friends

as    Steven Stelfox

2014
Young Ones

as    Flem Lever

2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past

as    Hank McCoy / Beast

2013
Jack the Giant Slayer

as    Jack

2013
Warm Bodies

as    R

2011
X-Men: First Class

as    Hank McCoy / Beast

2009
A Single Man

as    Kenny Potter

2007
Coming Down the Mountain

as    David Philips

2006
Kidulthood

as    Blake

2006
Wah-Wah

as    Ralph Compton - 14 years

2005
The Weather Man

as    Mike Spritzel

2002
About a Boy

as    Marcus Brewer