1. Charlie Hunnam portrayed Jax Teller in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy, for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor.
28 Facts About Charlie Hunnam
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Charlie Hunnam has been featured as the lead in numerous films, including Green Street, Nicholas Nickleby, Pacific Rim, Triple Frontier.
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Charlie Hunnam has portrayed Percy Fawcett in The Lost City of Z and Arthur Pendragon in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
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Charles Matthew Charlie Hunnam was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 10 April 1980, the son of Jane Bell, a ballet dancer and business owner, and William Charlie Hunnam.
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Charlie Hunnam has said that his mother "did a very good job" of being a single parent.
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Charlie Hunnam has an older brother named William and two younger half brothers on his mother's side named Oliver and Christian.
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Charlie Hunnam graduated with a dual degree in film theory and film history with a side in performing arts.
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Charlie Hunnam planned to write and direct his own films.
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Charlie Hunnam was discovered at the age of 17 in a branch of JD Sports on Christmas Eve, while playing around with his brother during a trip to buy shoes.
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Charlie Hunnam had a brief modelling career where he did a photo shoot for Kangol Caps and then decided modelling was not for him.
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Charlie Hunnam's career expanded to include a recurring role as Gregor Ryder in the WB series Young Americans.
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Charlie Hunnam then appeared in the short-lived Fox series Undeclared as a British drama student called Lloyd Haythe.
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Charlie Hunnam then appeared on the large screen in Abandon, Nicholas Nickleby, and Cold Mountain.
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From 2008 to 2014, Charlie Hunnam starred in Sons of Anarchy as Jackson "Jax" Teller leader of SAMCRO, a prominent motorcycle club set in the fictional town of Charming, California.
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Charlie Hunnam was cast after Kurt Sutter, the creator of the show, saw him in Green Street Hooligans.
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Charlie Hunnam said he considered the day he filmed scenes with Perlman the best and funniest day of filming he's had in his career.
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Charlie Hunnam appeared as Jay, an ex-boxer, in Stefan Ruzowitzky's crime drama Deadfall.
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However, on 12 October 2013, Universal Pictures announced that Charlie Hunnam had withdrawn from the film due to conflicts with the schedule of his series Sons of Anarchy.
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On 2 June 2014, Charlie Hunnam was awarded a Huading Award for Best Global Emerging Actor, for his role as Raleigh in Pacific Rim due to the film performing well in Asian markets.
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Charlie Hunnam reunited with del Toro in the horror film Crimson Peak, alongside Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain.
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Charlie Hunnam starred as geographer Percy Fawcett in James Gray's adaptation of author David Grann's 2009 book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.
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Charlie Hunnam played the eponymous title role in Guy Ritchie's action-adventure film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which was filmed between March and July 2015.
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Charlie Hunnam next starred in Guy Ritchie's 2019 film The Gentlemen alongside Matthew McConaughey.
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On 9 February 2023, Deadline Hollywood reported that Charlie Hunnam joined Zack Snyder's Netflix project Rebel Moon.
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In May 2024, Charlie Hunnam was cast in the lead role for Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of the comic series by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, Criminal.
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Charlie Hunnam met actress Katharine Towne, daughter of actress Julie Payne and filmmaker Robert Towne, in 1999 when they both auditioned for roles on Dawson's Creek.
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Charlie Hunnam dated model Sophie Dahl, actress Stella Parker and film producer Georgina Townsley.
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Charlie Hunnam has been in a relationship with artist Morgana McNelis since 2005.