Celebrity Biographies
Nicholas Hoult
He left quite a sensation when he burst onto the screen as Hugh Grant’s very young pal in “A Big Boy.” Little was heard of him afterward, until Nicolas Hoult has made a strong comeback as an “X-Men” mutant, teenage zombie, and giant slayer. The fashionable actor? If he is not already, he is not missing.
Born on December 7, 1989, in Berkshire, in the south-east of England, Nicholas Caradoc Hoult is the third of four children born to an air pilot and a piano teacher. He became a child actor inspired by the example of his great-aunt, Anna Neagle, one of the greats of British cinema and theater during World War II, whom Nicholas never really got to know, having died 3 years before he was born. your birth.
At the age of 7, Nicholas Hoult was already in front of the cameras, with a small role in Intimate Relations , alongside Julie Walters. Later he was working for years in different television productions until in 2002 he was selected to accompany Hugh Grant in A Big Boy , by Chris and Paul Weitz , adaptation of the novel by Nick Hornby . He had to play Marcus, the son of an estranged mother, who helped a suitor of hers, Will, a rentier who only aspires to have a good time in her life, reach maturity.
While filming a series titled Keen Eddie , with Sienna Miller , Nicholas Hoult suffered the biggest scare of his life, as he was hit by a bus, although he finally emerged unscathed from the event. After playing the son of Nicolas Cage , in The Weatherman , he achieved enormous popularity in his native Great Britain with Skins , an ensemble series starring various teenagers. “Until I was 16 or 17 years old, my life at home and my career were two separate worlds, which was very nice. After SkinsI became more or less famous, which was a bit of a disaster,” recalls Hoult. “When you’re on TV and in people’s homes you think it’s wonderful that someone sees what you’ve done, but sometimes you feel like you’re being seen by Big Brother from 1984. You get the feeling that you’re being watched all the time.”
He demonstrated his acting chops when designer Tom Ford cast him in a supporting role in his directorial debut, A Single Man . He played a young student who bullied his college professor ( Colin Firth ). The person in charge of the film was so happy with his work that he even signed him as a model for the advertising campaign of his spring 2010 collection.
Clash of the Titans begins its stage in large action productions. She had to put a face to Eusebio, one of the traveling companions of Perseus ( Sam Worthington ). She had a further role in X-Men: First Class , where he inherited the role of Hank McCoy, The Beast, previously played by Kelsey Grammer . On the set of shooting he fell in love with Jennifer Lawrence –Mystic, another of the mutants–. They had a relationship that broke up after two years.
2013 has been a memorable year for Nicholas Hoult. He blew up the US billboards with Memoirs of a Teenage Zombie , where he was the character alluded to in the title, as in Jack the Giant Slayer , who made noise commercially speaking, despite not responding to the expectations placed by Warner. In Australia he has shot George Miller ‘s Mad Max: Fury Road , alongside Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron .
Well positioned in the industry, it will be necessary to follow the trail of Nicholas Hoult, who little by little can become little less than the new Leonardo DiCaprio . He awaits the shooting of the thriller Dark Places , with Chloë Grace Moretz and Charlize Theron . And then a new mutant installment: X-Men: Days of the Future Past .