1. Nicholas Hoult's filmography includes supporting work in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in American and British films.
75 Facts About Nicholas Hoult
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Nicholas Hoult has received several accolades, including nominations for a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Nicholas Hoult was included in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2012.
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Nicholas Hoult made his screen debut at age six in the 1996 film Intimate Relations, and appeared in several television programmes.
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Nicholas Hoult's breakthrough came with his role in the 2002 comedy-drama About a Boy.
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Nicholas Hoult achieved wider recognition for his performance as Tony Stonem in the E4 teen series Skins.
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Nicholas Caradoc Hoult was born on 7 December 1989 in Wokingham, Berkshire, to Glenis, a piano teacher, and Roger Hoult, a commercial pilot.
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Nicholas Hoult's middle name, Caradoc, is a Middle Welsh name and translates as 'beloved one'.
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Nicholas Hoult spent most of his childhood at his family's residence in Sindlesham, an estate village in the borough of Wokingham.
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Nicholas Hoult was educated at The Coombes Infant and Nursery School and then Arborfield Church of England Junior School.
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Nicholas Hoult practised ballet with his sisters and took part in productions of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker with the English National Ballet.
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Nicholas Hoult played the trombone as a child and was a member of the local choir.
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Nicholas Hoult's acting potential was discovered at age three by a theatre director during a performance of a play that starred Nicholas Hoult's brother.
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Nicholas Hoult began attending auditions and at age five was cast in the 1996 drama Intimate Relations, his first feature-film role.
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Nicholas Hoult later appeared in the television programmes Casualty, Silent Witness, The Bill, Judge John Deed, and Doctors, among others.
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Nicholas Hoult was initially reluctant to audition for the role as the casting process was a lengthy one and interfered with his schooling.
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Nicholas Hoult nonetheless decided to participate in the early rounds of auditions and was eventually cast in the role of Marcus, a "woolly-hatted, oddball son of a suicidal, hippy-ish single mother, [who] gets bullied horribly at school".
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Nicholas Hoult said the change was difficult; his time there was short and he preferred attending a regular school.
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Nicholas Hoult still did not want to pursue acting as a profession and at 14 he left Sylvia Young Theatre School in favour of Ranelagh School.
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Nicholas Hoult made his debut in Hollywood with Gore Verbinski's film The Weather Man as the son of a television weather presenter undergoing a mid-life crisis.
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Nicholas Hoult was a student at Sixth Form College Farnborough in 2006 when he was cast in the lead role of the television teenage-drama Skins.
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Nicholas Hoult was initially sceptical of his ability to play Tony Stonem, a manipulative, egocentric anti-hero, and identified more closely with the supporting character Sid.
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Nicholas Hoult's performance was well received; the character was popular, and Hoult garnered widespread attention.
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Skins won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Philip Audience Award, and Nicholas Hoult was nominated for the Golden Nymph Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
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Nicholas Hoult briefly appeared as Stefan Fredman in the pilot episode of the British television series Wallander.
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Nicholas Hoult later made his West End theatre debut as Mark, the protagonist in William Sutcliffe's coming-of-age play New Boy; the production premiered at Trafalgar Studios and had record-breaking ticket sales, which was mostly attributed to Hoult's popularity among viewers of Skins.
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The play was staged for a week in March 2009 because Nicholas Hoult had committed to a part in the fantasy-adventure film Clash of the Titans, filming for which was scheduled for mid-2010.
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Nicholas Hoult next appeared in Tom Ford's A Single Man, after the actor originally cast in the role of Kenny Potter left the film a few days before filming commenced.
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Nicholas Hoult had previously shown interest in the project and had sent a recorded audition tape; he was eventually chosen for the role of Kenny, a homosexual college student who helps a college professor deal with his grief.
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In 2010, Nicholas Hoult voiced the character of Elliot in Lionhead Studios' action role-playing game Fable III.
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Nicholas Hoult was cast as Nux in George Miller's action film Mad Max: Fury Road; the project spent several years in development hell because plans for a fourth film in the Mad Max franchise encountered financial difficulties.
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Nicholas Hoult learned to speak in a dialect similar to Grammer's without trying to imitate it.
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Nicholas Hoult underwent physical training and gained weight to better suit his character.
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Miller had conceived Nux, a terminally ill slave, as a "quasi kamikaze pilot"; Nicholas Hoult said of his character; "he's very enthusiastic and committed and affectionate but kind of clumsy".
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Nicholas Hoult shaved his head and followed a strict diet because his role required him to lose a lot of weight.
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Nicholas Hoult talked about performing stunts in the film, describing the entire experience as "scary", but favourably compared the stunt crew and Miller's choice to incorporate real action sequences instead of using a green screen, saying it made the performance more believable because the actors are placed in a real situation.
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Also in 2012, Nicholas Hoult was included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
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In 2013, Nicholas Hoult had starring roles in two major films; he first played a zombie named R in Jonathan Levine's romantic comedy Warm Bodies, which was released on 1 February.
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Nicholas Hoult said he drew inspiration from Edward Scissorhands because he thought the central characters in both films share the same difficulties.
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Nicholas Hoult played the eponymous hero in the film, which is based on the British fairy tales "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Jack and the Beanstalk".
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Nicholas Hoult then appeared in Jake Paltrow's science-fiction film Young Ones.
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Nicholas Hoult thought the role was unlike any of his previous work and said his character's questionable choices throughout the film intrigued him.
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The film was shot in a deserted location in South Africa; Nicholas Hoult said filming in the hot weather conditions was difficult but the "beautiful" scenery helped to tell the story better.
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Nicholas Hoult said it made him more conscious of environmental concerns.
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Club said Nicholas Hoult was a poor fit for the story's "stoically retrograde machismo".
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Nicholas Hoult reprised his role as Beast in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past, his other release of 2014.
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The action film Collide, in which Nicholas Hoult starred as a drug dealer, was released in the United States in February 2017 to a poor response from audiences and critics.
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Forbes Scott Mendelson analysed the film's failure and said Nicholas Hoult did not necessarily have enough "star power" to draw audiences.
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Nicholas Hoult highlighted the misogyny and sense of entitlement in the entertainment industry, writing that director Eran Creevy and Hoult would get better offers despite the failure of films like Collide, as opposed to the women and other minority groups, who are either ignored or stereotyped.
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Drake Doremus, the film's director, said Nicholas Hoult's role was unlike his previous work; "a very complex and emotionally mature performance that we haven't seen yet".
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Nicholas Hoult portrayed American author JD Salinger in Danny Strong's Rebel in the Rye, which chronicles Salinger's life from his youth to the World War II era and the years preceding the publication of his debut novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
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Nicholas Hoult co-starred in The Current War, a dramatisation of the feud between electrical pioneers Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.
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Nicholas Hoult was cast in the role of Nikola Tesla, for which he grew a moustache and attended science lessons about electromagnetism and dynamos.
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Nicholas Hoult lost weight for his role by following a strict diet.
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Nicholas Hoult next voiced Fiver in the animated television miniseries adaptation of Richard Adams' 1972 novel Watership Down.
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In 2019, Hoult portrayed author JR R Tolkien in the biopic Tolkien.
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Nicholas Hoult next reprised his role as Hank McCoy in the X-Men film Dark Phoenix.
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Nicholas Hoult was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
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In 2021, Nicholas Hoult appeared in a villainous role in the thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead.
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Nicholas Hoult starred in the black comedy film The Menu, alongside Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy, in 2022.
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Nicholas Hoult next played the titular role in the comedy-horror film Renfield.
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In 2024, Nicholas Hoult voiced Jon Arbuckle in the animated film The Garfield Movie.
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Nicholas Hoult starred as Thomas Hutter in Nosferatu, written and directed by Robert Eggers.
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From 2010 to 2014, Nicholas Hoult had a relationship with his X-Men co-star Jennifer Lawrence.
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Nicholas Hoult follows Formula One racing and has attended several Grand Prix races.
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Nicholas Hoult is a philanthropist and supports numerous charities; he has been associated with organisations that support children.
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Nicholas Hoult was appointed the first National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Young Person Ambassador, for supporting the charity's activities aimed at children and young people.
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Nicholas Hoult designed sweaters for Save the Children's and Selfish Mother's joint Christmas Jumper Day campaign.
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Nicholas Hoult encouraged customers to buy the festive collection and support the charitable cause, which he thought would bring a "real change to children's lives".
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Nicholas Hoult donated a pair of shoes, which was auctioned by Small Steps Project, an organisation that helps homeless and malnourished children.
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Nicholas Hoult was inducted into the NSPCC Hall of Fame in 2010 for his contributions to the campaign against child cruelty.
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Nicholas Hoult visited Nairobi, Kenya, as a part of a Christian Aid project aimed at providing clean water and sanitation.
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Nicholas Hoult participated in the Rickshaw Run in January 2017, in which participants drove an auto rickshaw for 3,000 kilometres across India to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust and World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Nicholas Hoult has been associated with Jeans for Refugees, a project and fundraising initiative intended to help refugees around the world.
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Nicholas Hoult donated a signed pair of jeans to the organisation; profits from the campaign were donated to the refugee support agency International Rescue Committee.