1. Nico Mirallegro is best known for his roles as Barry "Newt" Newton in the soap opera Hollyoaks, Finn Nelson in My Mad Fat Diary, Joe Middleton in The Village, and Johnjo O'Shea in Common.
21 Facts About Nico Mirallegro
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Nico Mirallegro briefly attended a boarding school outside the UK, at where he was lonely and felt out of place.
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Nico Mirallegro attended Siddal Moor Sports College in Heywood and the Manchester School of Acting.
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Nico Mirallegro's parents are separated, and his father lives in Spain, with Mirallegro having moved there as a teenager to live with him for a time.
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Nico Mirallegro says that he "fell into" acting in his mid-teens after following his sister Claudia to improv classes.
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In December 2010, Nico Mirallegro was in series one of the BBC One 1930s-period remake of Upstairs Downstairs.
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Nico Mirallegro portrayed a young footman called Johnny Proude, who took up a position in service to escape the poverty of the northern mining town where he was born.
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In 2011, Nico Mirallegro appeared in the BBC's three-part psychological thriller Exile, playing the teenage version of leading character Tom Ronstadt.
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In 2014, Nico Mirallegro portrayed a teenager prosecuted for murder under the Joint Enterprise law in the controversial BBC One production Common, written by Jimmy McGovern.
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Nico Mirallegro portrayed Kenan, Noah's youngest son, whose wish to follow a path different from his father and brothers results in his being swept away in the Great Flood.
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Nico Mirallegro starred in HBO's Virtuoso, directed and partially written by Alan Ball.
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In June 2017, Nico Mirallegro acted in the BBC's BAFTA winning real-life drama Murdered for Being Different, about the murder of Sophie Lancaster in 2007.
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Nico Mirallegro starred as a troubled teenager training to be a boxer while his father is in prison.
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Nico Mirallegro played Sam, a Jewish boy who is one of the story's two protagonists.
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Nico Mirallegro portrayed a teenage lead guitarist in a full-length film set in the 1990s about the Manchester-formed rock band The Stone Roses.
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In January 2014, Nico Mirallegro appeared at London's Royal Court Theatre in the drama The Pass, in which Russell Tovey plays a football player coming to terms with his homosexuality.
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Nico Mirallegro reprised his comic role as a hotel bellboy in an "irrepressible performance" in a 2016 film adaptation of the work, which premiered at the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival.
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Since 2014, Nico Mirallegro has performed in several BBC Radio 4 dramas, including playing the eponymous male character in Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Nico Mirallegro was later cast as the protagonist in 79 Birthdays and as the son in Over Here, Over There.
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Nico Mirallegro plays in celebrity football matches for charities such as Help For Heroes and Once Upon a Smile.
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Nico Mirallegro attended Siddal Moor Sports College and is a supporter of Manchester United FC.