Nicholas Hoult

Biography

Nicholas Caradoc Hoult was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England to parents Glenis and Roger Hoult. His great-aunt was one of the most popular actresses of her time, Dame Anna Neagle. He attended Sylvia Young Theatre School, a school for performing arts, to start acting as a career. Hoult has been acting since appearing in the film Intimate Relations (1996); his breakthrough role was in Vse o fantu (2002), where he starred as Marcus Brewer alongside Hugh Grant. In 2005, he starred in his first American film Vremenar (2005) as Nicolas Cage's son. At age 17, he received recognition for starring as Tony Stonem in the BAFTAs-awarded British teen drama series Mularija (2007) for two seasons until 2008. Later he played the role of Kenny Potter in the Oscar-nominated film Osamljeni moz (2009) after being discovered by director Tom Ford. In late 2010, Nicholas Hoult was cast as Beast in Mozje X: Prvi razred (2011), and reprised his role in the X-Men franchise in later films Mozje X: Dnevi prihodnje preteklosti (2014) and Mozje X: apokalipsa (2016). He then starred as R in romance / horror zombie film Warm Bodies (2013) alongside Teresa Palmer. In 2015 he starred in Pobesneli Max: cesta besa (2015), five years after he was cast as Nux due to some delays. Hoult will star in the upcoming historical and biographical film The Current War (2017), as Nikola Tesla, and in Rebel in the Rye: Aux origines de l'Attrape-coeurs (2017). His other roles include Silas in Equals (2015) opposite Kristen Stewart and Jack in Jack le chasseur de géants (2013).