The career of this Briton is actively gaining momentum. From an actor with a baggage of mediocre roles, Charlie Hunnam, for several years of fruitful work, has climbed into the top of the most promising and in demand, and all thanks to his selectivity to characters and scripts. In Charlie's piggy bank for quite a long acting life only 18 roles and not all of them can be called successful in terms of "working for the future." What is the secret of his popularity? Perhaps this is because Hunnam does not go against his inner self, and therefore he is a celebrity of the first magnitude.
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The Newcastle Boy - Short Biography
Watching this self-confident and stately handsome man, one gets the impression that he is a minion of fate, born with a silver spoon in his mouth. In fact, Charlie Hunnam is an ordinary guy who, as a child, only dreamed of prosperity and a better life. Apparently, the universe is favorable to this handsome man with a radiant smile and a tempered character, but first things first.
Charlie was born in April 1980 in Newcastle. His father was a scrap metal dealer, and his mother had a small souvenir shop. His parents divorced when Charlie was two years old, but he and his father always had a good relationship and they kept in touch until his death in 2014.
“My dad was the toughest guy I know, sometimes I feel like I play him in movies.”
After the divorce, my mother remarried only 10 years later and moved to the provincial Melmerby. Charlie got two younger brothers. Parents worked from morning to evening to feed their huge family. Funds were constantly lacking, so Charlie, being the second oldest offspring, began to earn money from an early age.
The actor recalls his youthful labors with a bitter smile. He knows how sheared sheep smell and how to harvest raspberries on an industrial scale.
As a child, Hunnam, like many children, loved to ride his bike through the streets of his native town and played rugby. On his bike, he was simply unstoppable and often got into accidents, and once cut his eyebrow so badly that he had to get several stitches in the hospital. The surgeon did not clean the wound well, so that Charlie had a few pebbles in his eyebrow, which for a long time caused him great discomfort. In general, the ordinary life of an ordinary teenager, but there is one thing. Charlie grew up in a harsh place where the guys constantly proved to each other who is stronger. So about street fights the actor knows firsthand.
And yet the guy was different from his peers. IN adolescence, when his friends hung out after the girls and measured fists, Charlie, running away from reality, disappeared at home, reviewing films. Even then, he had grandiose plans for his future, and the universe gave him a chance.
The desire to become an actor appeared in the boy at the age of eight, after watching the movie "Excalibur". Therefore, when Guy Ritchie launched a project about King Arthur, the actor realized that this was a sign from above.
Carier start
Hunnam had every chance to become a model. At the age of 16, Charlie was “lucky” to advertise Walls ice cream, and soon one of the little-known English brands invited him to participate in his campaign. Then he advertised hats from Kangol, but the modeling business did not attract the guy. After earning some money, he entered the University of Cumbria and completed a course in film theory and history.
Unlike most newcomers, Charlie did not go to auditions and did not send his portfolio to producers and directors. He was spotted by a casting agent in a supermarket on Christmas Eve. After a few drinks at the pub, Hunnam went shopping for Christmas presents an hour before the supermarket closed. He tried on sneakers and fooled around in front of the mirror. A woman was staring at Charlie, and he, in turn, winked at her and blew a kiss. It turned out that it was the casting director of the series "Biker Grove", so the guy got on television.
In the show Close Friends, 18-year-old Hunnam turned into a guy with a non-traditional sexual orientation, and this role made him famous in England
He appeared in several episodes of the show as a guest model. Then the aspiring actor was cast in the soap "My wonderful life". The next series literally glorified the young man. Charlie was selected for the role of a gay in the TV show "Close Friends". The project and the participation of the young actor in it were favorably appreciated by critics. Inspired by the first success, Charlie went to conquer Hollywood.
Unsuccessful start overseas
Hunnam is one of the few Hollywood actors new generation, which is not chasing the general recognition of colleagues and multimillion-dollar fees. He rejected in batches the scripts that could have long elevated him to the rank of world celebrities, this list included "50 Shades of Gray" and "Game of Thrones", but first things first.
After a good start in his native Britain, Hunnam moved to Hollywood. Star Hills met the novice actor very cool. He took part in the TV shows "Young Americans" and "Undecided" and even appeared in the same company with Katie Holmes in the thriller "Abandoned", but these fruits of the acting profession did not bring Charlie any aesthetic or material satisfaction. Although, as Hunnam has repeatedly stated, he does not dream of fame and does not gravitate towards wealth, he just wants to live a life full of emotions, adventures, and that is what cinema gives him. 
Frame from the film "Abandoned"
In 2002, Hunnam first appeared on the screens as the main violin. Dixon's "Nicholas Nickleby" did not bring the actor the long-awaited recognition in the film industry, but the young man gained experience and real friends in the person of Anne Hathaway and Jamie Bell. In 2003, Charlie played a cameo role in the drama Cold Mountain.
Finally, after a few years hard work Overseas, the Briton did not receive worthwhile offers from producers in Hollywood. In addition, he acquired a bunch of unnecessary fears, a feeling of complete dissatisfaction with himself and his acting skills. He decided to complete his wanderings in Hollywood, went to his native Britain and did not lose.
Hunnam is known for his picky roles even early in his career. He participated only in worthwhile, in his opinion, projects. The actor was broke, but did not take the job if the script did not captivate him. Charlie believes in his star, and he also believes that if you sacrifice something, but do not give up on a dream, it will definitely come true.
Through hardship to the stars
Charlie returned to his homeland and continued to look for the very script that he was completely imbued with. Such a project was found. Low-budget drama "Hooligans" became a sip for the actor fresh air who needed it inner world and career. Charlie reincarnated as Peter Dunham, the desperate leader of the football fans of one of the clubs in Britain. The drama paid off at the box office, and directors noticed Hunnam's charisma. Of course, connoisseurs completely criticized his terrible Californian accent, but they saw huge potential in a blond guy with a sparkling look and a raised abs.
After arriving in Hollywood, Hunnam was very upset that he was not being cast as bad guys. At the castings, he was told that he was "too nice." Charlie did not know what to do and even decided to fight with someone on film set in one of the castings, but upbringing took over, and Hunnam went to Gym to look more impressive. The actor gained weight and became the owner of seductive reliefs. Only after such reincarnations did the directors begin to see him as a tough guy.
In 2006, Hunnam auditioned for the drama Child of Men. The secondary hero performed by the British was immediately remembered by the audience. It was he who became the personification of the horror that threatened humanity. Despite a short stay on the set, the actor was lucky enough to take part in the film along with recognized Hollywood gurus Clive Owen, Michael Caine and Julianne Moore.
During a period when Charlie was unemployed and almost lost his house due to being unable to pay his bills, he wrote and sold a script about Vlad the Impaler, the prototype of Dracula. Brad Pitt's production center became interested in the story.
son of anarchy
One of the right people, who was impressed by the Brit's performance in Hooligans, was screenwriter and director Kurt Sutter. He can rightfully be called the Hollywood father of Hunnam, because it was he who offered Charlie the role of Jax Teller in the mega-popular series Sons of Anarchy.
Surprisingly, Charlie Hunnam's wide popularity, at least in Europe and America, was brought not by a big movie, but by a TV show. In 2008, he was invited to audition for a series about bikers. The actor's creative dream came true, he was entrusted with the role of not a pretty boy, but a bad boy.
"Sons of Anarchy" is the series that made the Briton a star of the first magnitude. The TV show has been in the works for eight years. With each season, the hero Charlie Jacks Teller transformed and fought his inner demons.
Hunnam put all his acting skills into his character. As a result, the viewer saw not just a cool killer biker, but also a father, loving husband, a man torn between duty to the brotherhood and his own feelings and desires. Hunnam showed such a flurry of conflicting emotions on the screens that it became clear to film critics that the range of his acting roles could be huge. The audience applauded the Briton, and the directors began to invite him to participate in new projects in big cinema.
Photo gallery: In the company of the acting family of "anarchists"
Kurt Sutter Becomes Hunnam's Hollywood Father
After a long day of shooting
After participating in the show, the actors became friends in ordinary life
On the set of "Sons", 2011
The audience of the show after the third season exceeded 5 million viewers
At the Season 7 premiere of "Sons"
In 2014, the seventh final season of the show was filmed. The actor admitted that people on the set became real family and transformed into friends, which is why it is very difficult for him to part with the series and the image of Jax Teller. Nevertheless, the show about bikers and the criminal world of the small town of Charming has become so popular that its creators have already launched a project about the Mayantsy motorcycle club, which also featured in the series Sons of Anarchy. So according to unconfirmed reports, Charlie Hunnam in the shell of Jax Teller will return to the screens.
Big cinema - filmography
Over the course of eight years of work on television, Hunnam managed to light up in a big movie. So the actor appeared in the complex drama "The Price of Passion". His partners on the set were Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson and Terrence Howard. The film received mixed reviews from critics as it touched on many deep themes- life and death, religious fanaticism and atheism, gay issues, adultery and many others. As a result, the picture got into the nominations at the Sundance festival.
In 2012, Hunnam took part in two projects - in the comedy "Frankie Makes a Rustle" and the thriller "Blackbird". As the actor himself admits, he is closer in spirit to dramatic cinema. Charlie does not see in himself the makings of a comedian, although in good company he is not averse to joking. This is probably why dramas predominate in his filmography. As for the thriller "Blackbird", it turned out to be very chaotic, despite the rather strong cast. Hunnam was accompanied on set by Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde. The film did not win Great love and among fans.
One of the first brilliant directors who noted the potential in the actor was the legendary Guillermo Del Toro. Hunnam's first attempt at collaboration was Hunnam's failed audition for the Hellboy project. When the director told Charlie about his new brainchild, Pacific Rim, the actor was so inspired that he could not sleep, drawing giant robots and monsters in his imagination. As a result, Hunnam reincarnated as the main character and helped prevent the on-screen apocalypse. The picture received average reviews from critics, but was favorably received by viewers around the world, especially Chinese fans liked it. As for Del Toro, he was so absorbed in Hunnam's creative magnetism that he even persuaded him to play minor hero in his next project Crimson Peak.
Guillermo Del Toro: “I am fascinated by Charlie Hunnam, he is a great actor, bright and kind guy. I would love it if my daughters brought someone like Charlie to our house as a boyfriend."
In 2013, it was announced that Hunnam had been cast as sadistic billionaire Christian Gray in the acclaimed 50 Shades of Grey franchise. The actor himself confirmed his participation in the project and even spoke about the palpable chemistry between him and Dakota Johnson, but after a few months he dropped out of it, which extremely upset the filmmakers. Nevertheless, many film industry experts believe that with this decision, Charlie did a great favor to his career by not putting a bullet on it. Today, it is not known for certain what caused the actor to refuse to participate in Shades. Hunnam stated that he left the cast for family reasons and because of the banal mismatch of filming schedules.
The actor wanted to participate in the sequel to the film "Pacific Rim", but due to lack of time, he abandoned this idea.
Not so long ago, the actor admitted that he is a germaphobe (germophobia is a panicky fear of germs). And all because as a child he received a psychological trauma - in the town where his family lived, an unknown infection spread, due to which a couple of children went blind. The fear remained with the actor to this day. That is why kissing in front of the camera is a real torture for him. The director of Sons of Anarchy doesn't think so. In an interview, he said that shooting intimate scenes with Charlie is a pleasure. The actor is as liberated as possible on the site, cheerful and always thinks about his partner. For Hunnam, intimate scenes are the choreography.
In 2016, Charlie Hunnam took part in the historical thriller about explorer Percy Fawcett, The Lost City of Z. The British lieutenant colonel and traveler was looking for an advanced civilization in the Amazon Delta. While trying to scientifically prove this fact, he and his eldest son disappeared in 1925. Director James Gray recreated the story and presented the film at the 2016 New York Film Festival. Critics greeted the film with applause. Hunnam got the lead role of Percy Fawcett. The actor called this film the best he has done in his career.
Filming took place in the Colombian jungle for five months. According to the director, at the end of the filming process, everyone went a little crazy, they were exhausted physically and mentally.
To get used to the role, Hunnam didn't talk to anyone outside of moments on set, and didn't interact with his civil wife. Gray said that Charlie looked very unhappy and lonely, but diligently did everything that was said. In addition, in 8 weeks of filming, the actor lost 20 kg of weight, lightning knocked him down and an insect got into his ear, so this experience will be remembered by Hunnam for a lifetime.
King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword
One of the long-awaited premieres of 2017 was Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: The Sword. The original director entrusted the main role in it to Charlie Hunnam. In the process of creating fantasy, Guy and Charlie became true friends. Watching the communication of these two at the premiere of the picture, it is even difficult to imagine that Richie initially rejected Charlie's candidacy for the role of Arthur. The backstory about Hunnam's involvement with the project is that he found out about Guy's new film and responded immediately, but director Charlie's portfolio was unimpressed and his request was denied.
Hunnam is a purposeful guy - he bought a ticket to London, invited Richie for a cup of tea and told him about his vision of the role, and what he can bring to this image. The actor's persistence won over Guy, and he gave Charlie a chance. Hunnam came to the audition and saw that Henry Cavill and Jai Courtney were applying for this role, but such rivalry only spurred the purposeful Briton.
The director was impressed with the actor's performance, but his physical form after The Lost City of Z and the final season of Sons was unimpressive. Richie was looking for a man who appearance would put pressure on the opponent, but Hunnam, who lost a fair amount of his weight, could not boast of this. Charlie came out the winner and in this situation, he offered Richie to arrange between the applicants for leading role fistfight, but Guy decided to avoid such extremes and gave the role to the self-confident Hunnam. In turn, he made a promise with Charlie that he would gain impressive muscle mass before filming began. The actor spent days on end doing fitness and carrying a barbell, and during the filming he did push-ups a thousand times a day. The result has been achieved.
The film was daring, as usual in Richie's style. Foreign critics smashed it to smithereens, which ensured low box office for the picture overseas, and the Russian audience took the picture very warmly. Whether the fantasy franchise will become a franchise is still unknown, but the fact that Hunnam is already in the star top of Hollywood actors is a fact.
Future projects
Mr Hunnam's Lately work has increased, but knowing his selectivity and approach to each role, it is difficult to predict something. Rumors are spreading in the media about two projects in which the actor can take part - this is the continuation of the adventures of King Arthur and the TV series Mayants. Hunnam also agreed to be reincarnated as Green Arrow and James Bond if such offers were received.
As for real projects, only one has been announced so far - this is the drama "Moth". Remake of the 1973 film of the same name. The Briton will play a major role and reincarnate as prisoner safecracker Henry "Moth" Charrière. The film is currently in the post-production stage.
Awards
Actor Charlie Hunnam already has three awards in his piggy bank:
- In 2002, the National Council of Film Critics Award in the nomination " best actor ensemble".
- In 2014, he received the Huading Film Awards as the best actor of the year in international projects for the film Pacific Rim.
- In 2017, the CinemaCon Award critics named Hunnam the winner of the Male Star of the Year award.
The actor also has 8 nominations for various awards as part of the TV show Sons of Anarchy.
Charlie Hunnam, like the rest of the Anarchists, has had a strained relationship with the Emmys. Charlie even burst into swearing at her. As it turned out, critics of the award for some reason ignored the series "Sons of Anarchy" for eight years, which unspeakably upset Kurt Sutter, the creator of the show.
Charlie Hunnam as a model
The attractive appearance of the Briton and success in the world of cinema have turned him into a model in demand in the world of gloss. Charlie is regularly invited to adorn advertising campaigns for famous brands. In 2005, he was the face of Armani, advertising one of the collections of the fashion house. In 2014, the actor was invited to become the face of the Calvin Klein fragrance - Reveal. The partner of the sexy blonde was the model Doutzen Cruz.
REVEAL Calvin Klein Perfume Roller
The actor has repeatedly collaborated with Vouge, Mens Hills, Mr. porter. Charlie is constantly on the list of the sexiest men on the planet.
Photo gallery: Charlie Hunnam on glossy pages
I love you endlessly: the personal life of an actor
Charlie Hunnam, despite all his unbridled sexuality, which goes off scale and seeps through the screens, is very stable in his personal life, although at the age of 37 he has already been married and divorced.
First love
Arriving in Los Angeles, the actor went to auditions for days on end. At an audition for Dawson's Creek, Charlie met Katherine, a charming blonde actress. Young people fell in love with each other to unconsciousness, and after three weeks of the novel they became legal spouses. The marriage lasted only three years. Gossips say that Catherine Town could not stand Hunnam's betrayals and simply left him. Charlie himself laughs off in an interview and admits that his wife was his first love, but three years of marriage were the most painful time in his life. Despite this fact, Katherine and Charlie are still friendly to this day.
Morgana McNelis
After the divorce, Charlie is credited with romances with Stella Parker, Rashida Jones and Sophie Dahl, but all these are fleeting affairs. But the designer managed to win the heart of the blonde jewelry Morgan McNelis. The history of the couple's acquaintance remains a secret to the public, but their romance has been going on for about twelve years.
Little is known about Charlie's beloved. She is the owner of her own jewelry brand, Maison de Morgana jewelry designs. Morgana is actively involved in charity, supporting veterans.
Morgana gave her lover a ring engraved with "I love you endlessly", and Charlie constantly wears it. So this fact indicates the seriousness of the relationship of both to each other.
A few years ago, young people moved to the suburbs of LA to their own ranch, acquired chickens, ducks, donkeys and ennobled their own garden. They shy away from the Hollywood crowd, but their joint photos periodically flicker on the pages of gossip columns. Perhaps the decision to move came after McNelis was accused of illegally selling marijuana. This incident, not without the efforts of Hunnam, managed to make amends. Morgana got off with two days in prison, a suspended sentence and a fine of many thousands. Despite everything, young people remain devoted to each other.
The actor admitted that, as a real Californian, he already has a store of gold and a collection of weapons, and now his own autonomous farm, so if the apocalypse comes, he plans to survive.
After the popularity that hit Hunnam, it was not easy for his soulmate either. A group of fans constantly attacked Morgana on social networks and gave her a real persecution of insults. Charlie reacted immediately, reached out to inadequate fans through his Facebook fan page and asked him to stop attacking the person he loves infinitely. Hunnam revealed that he plans to spend another 60 years with his girlfriend.
Photo gallery: Love is a beautiful country
The actor starred for the April Men's Health and in his interview spoke about numerous body transformations for roles, as well as about life before Hollywood and hobbies
Photo: DR
Biker from the project "Sons of Anarchy" Charlie played for seven years. To play his character, he studied Brazilian jiu-jitsu for about a year, watched all the matches and wrestled in his backyard. This spring, two large-scale projects with his participation will appear on the screens at once - "The Sword of King Arthur" (premier in May) and "The Lost City of Z" (in April), in which he needed to stay in excellent physical form. In addition, he recently completed filming in the drama Moth (the plot of this film, as well as the date of its release, is still unknown).
However, not only shooting motivates him to keep himself in good shape.
"I'm interested in being on high level in all forms of fitness,” he says. “Running, swimming, jumping, lasso, walking, jiu-jutsu, I do everything. I also try to have sex as often as possible. This is an important part of a fitness program. I want to be active even at seventy. I want to run in the mountains at this age.”
For the role in the film "King Arthur: The Sword" he gained about 10 kilograms. Then he dropped 20 for the role of British Colonel Percival Fossett in The Lost City of Z. He hardly ate anything. Filming took place in the deadly heat in the Colombian jungle. But the hardest thing, according to Hunnam, was to stay in isolation - he deliberately did not talk to anyone on the set and did not even call his girlfriend for four months.
“I needed to play this person [hungry, suffering] every day, so I just decided to live in it. I felt fear, loneliness. He says the scenes were filmed sequentially, so that by the end of the period, everyone on the team went a little crazy, even director James Grey.
For filming in "Moth" he again had to transform his body. First, he gained weight (after working in the Lost City of Z), and then lost it again - already about 25 kilograms. “The second time, my body was reluctant to do it,” says the actor. He again went on a vegan diet, and also ... lit a cigarette. And he smoked like crazy, diluting it with liters of coffee for three months. “My body turned into a dump,” says Charlie. “And then it was not easy to quit.”
Charlie Hunnam, now 36, was born in Newcastle, England. He says that it was a cruel place where children constantly bullied each other, and he often became a target for bullies - he had to fight. But he had many friends and interesting hobbies: drawing, photography, rugby.
When he was 12, his mother moved him and his brother to Small town in Wales, and here everything changed: he became an outsider. He spent all his free time alone and watched movies. Despite the fact that the boys' parents divorced when Charlie was 2 years old, he remained forever close to his father, a metal merchant who passed away four years ago. But Charlie says that he feels him near:
“My father was one of the most difficult rebels I have ever met. It seems to me that in my work I often embody his image.”
Charlie arrived in Los Angeles when he was 18. He had no education, but only an abstract dream of becoming an actor. He started his career in modeling business and on television, which eventually led to Sons of Anarchy. He is always passionate about something: he wants to speak Spanish fluently - he takes lessons; loves to cook - learns from tutorials. And Hunnam also wants to get a black belt in jiu-jitsu by the age of 45.
He says that he is not close to a luxurious lifestyle. He drives a battered Cadillac, which is already 14 years old, he cares little about fame, he does not like social media- it seems to him that they separate people. He has been living with his girlfriend Morgana McNeils for 11 years now and his dream is to roam the world with her.
brief information
Date of Birth : 10.04.1980
Place of Birth: Newcastle, England, UK
His career began from the moment when he was just strolling through a shoe store in hometown Newcastle and met the agents. He was invited to star in the BBC series Byker Grove (Byker Grove) in the role of a recurring long-haired model. After this series, Charlie played in the BBC's teen series Microsoap, followed by his starring role in the Channel 4 television series Intimate Friends in 1999.
Throughout the eight-episode film about gay life, Hunnam portrayed Nathan (the main character) from a modest, inquisitive and innocent guy to a determined and self-confident playboy. In 2000, Charlie reprized the role in the two-hour sequel Close Friends 2. The role of Nathan has become a kind of model for young homosexuals. And the influence of this series has spread so widely that the young actor was invited to take part in a parliamentary debate on the discussion of Britain's discriminatory law on the age of majority.
In 2000, Hunnam made his debut in the American teen drama series Young Americans on The WB, where he played a recurring character. He then landed a recurring role on the Fox sitcom Undeclared, a college drama series based on the earlier short series Freaks and Geeks.
Like its predecessor, The Unrecognized was based on well-thought-out details and well-formed characters. For example, Hunnam's hero, Lloyd, main actor theater studio college, turned out to be a completely atypical character. Charlie's charm and smug demeanor have taken his character Lloyd to the extreme, and the series itself has gone far beyond typical teenage stereotypes.
The first film in which Hunnam starred was released in 1999 in the homeland of the actor, and in 2001 was shown in theaters in America. It was the British comedy What Happened to Harold Smith? (Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?), in which Charlie played the role of a rock singer. Hunnam made his American film debut opposite Katie Holmes in the 2002 thriller Abandon, and at the end of that year he starred in artistic drama Based on the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby.
In 2003, Charlie appeared in another drama by Anthony Minghella, Cold Mountain, in which such famous people became his colleagues in the workshop. Hollywood stars like Nicole Kidman, Jude Law and Renee Zellweger. Based on the novel by Charles Fraser, Cold Mountain is a film about the American Civil War.
As for the personal life of the actor, Charlie already had experience family life: From 1999 to 2002 he was married to Katarina Towne, whom they met while filming The Unrecognised.
Filmography
1999 What happened to Harold Smith? (film) Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Daz
1999 Close Friends (TV series) Queer as Folk Nathan Maloney
2000 Close Friends - 2 (TV) Queer as Folk Nathan Maloney
2000 with Young Americans (TV series) Young Americans Gregor Ryder
2001 with Undeclared Lloyd Haythe
2002 Abandoned (film) Abandon Embry Larkin
2002 Nicholas Nickleby (film) Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby
2003 Cold Mountain (film) Cold Mountain Bosie
2005 Green Street Hooligans (film) Pete Dunham
2006 Children of Men (film) Children of Men Patric
2011 Stanford Prison Experiment William H. Pitsenbarger
2010 Last Frontier (film) Last Full Measure
2008-2011 with Children of Anarchy Sons of Anarch Jackson "Jax" Teller
2012 Blackbird Jay
2013 Pacific Rim
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The fact that he did not play Gray in the Fifty Shades of Gray film is probably for the best: Jamie Dornan, who received this role, is not enthusiastic about the film. Although, perhaps, in the biography of Charlie Hunnam, along with this image, a new stage would begin, he is still a good actor, and the movie collected an impressive box office.
Biography of Charlie Hunnam
"Gay Icon"
A native of Newcastle, Charles Matthew Hunnam comes from a large family. His parents raised four, and Charlie was the second child of the Hunnams. He was born on April 10, 1980, grew up as an active and athletic boy. And Charlie's hopes for a great acting future were born along with his participation in the Biker Grove show. He got the role of Jason by chance: the casting assistants met a handsome blond guy in one of the shops in Newcastle - Hunnam was choosing his shoes, but got on the set.
But for real creative biography Charlie Hunnam began with the mini-series Close Friends. The nineteen-year-old Briton became the star of the project, playing one of the central roles in it. His hero, the modest young Nathan, is seduced by the handsome Stuart (Aidan Gillen, who created the image of Petyr Baelish in the Game of Thrones). Gradually, the guy falls in love with his older friend and becomes, like him, a playboy. Nathan has become a real "gay icon", because Charlie played him very convincingly, while not embarrassed by explicit scenes.
In America!
After starring in his homeland in the low-budget comedy What Happened to Harold Smith?, the Englishman moved to the States. There he made his debut with a role in the show Young Americans, and then joined the large cast of the sitcom Undecided. The show was written by Jude Apatow, so it was full of some pretty daring jokes and out of the ordinary situations, and along with Charlie in the series (which was a kind of continuation of "Hooligans and Nerds"), Apatow's favorite Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel played.
In between filming the sitcom, Charlie Hunnam's biography was replenished with several films. Among them was English classic, Dickensian "Nicholas Nickleby". Despite the excellent casting (except for Hunnam and the young Jamie Bell, the experienced Jim Broadbent, the beautiful Anne Hathaway and the funny Alan Cummings played in the film), the drama failed at the box office. Apparently, Dickens is not to everyone's taste. And the film was not bad: it even claimed the Golden Globe.
fan and biker
Hunnam's episode in Minghella's "Cold Mountain" and his role in Cuaron's post-apocalyptic "Children of Men" were not very highly appreciated by the public and critics. But the low-budget American-British sports drama "Hooligans" unexpectedly covered the cost of the film by almost 10 times, and the ratings of the tape were unrealistically high. The main roles in the film were played by American Elijah Wood and Briton Charlie Hunnam. Interestingly, the film is about London football fans filmed by female director Lexi Alexander.
Charlie always said that he approaches the choice of role very carefully, because it determines the course further career artist. So he gladly plunged into the biker-criminal world of the series "Sons of Anarchy", anticipating that this is the kind of story that can hook the viewer. The show was launched in 2008, and in December 2014, the Americans saw the last, seventh, season. Hunnam brilliantly coped with the main role of Jax Tayler, the leader of a motorcycle gang, seeking to restore order in his town.
Commercial success
Charlie's participation in the blockbuster "Pacific Rim" also did not go unnoticed.
Epic high tech fantasy picture Guillermo del Toro earned more than 411 million dollars - it was the first commercially very successful film in which the Brit has a leading role.
You won't be forced to be nice
When Robert Pattinson turned down James's offer to play in the film adaptation of her book Fifty Shades of Grey, Ryan Gosling could have been considered for the male lead, but the project seemed uninteresting to him. Then the role of Gray was offered to Hunnam. After much hesitation, Charlie agreed, but unexpectedly met with a whole stream of negativity from fans of the novel. He decided that “you won’t be forced to be nice” and left the project.
Victorian thriller and Arthurian legend
Movie fans were looking forward to the next del Toro film starring Hunnam - the Victorian mystical thriller Crimson Peak was released in October 2015. Together with Charlie, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston are involved in the film. Horror (or rather, a gothic drama turned out: atmospheric, saturated with bright colors, tense.
And in the spring of 2017, Hunnam appeared as the legendary King Arthur (who has not yet sat on the throne) in Guy Ritchie's new film. The antagonist of the future monarch was played by Jude Law.
Charlie Hunnam's personal life
Early marriage
As soon as Charlie moved to the USA, he almost immediately met Catherine Town - it happened at one of the castings. Samples in "Dawson's Bay" did not pass both, but the wedding of Katherine and Charlie followed. The marriage turned out to be short - already in 2002, the young people terminated it.
Many years together
From the personal life of Charlie Hunnam never made a big secret, for almost ten years he has been dating the same girl. His lover is Morgana McNelis, she designs jewelry. The star is in no hurry to formalize their relationship - apparently, the mistake of youth reminds of itself, well, these two are fine and without any formalities.
Childhood and family of Charlie Hunnam
Charlie Hunnam was born on April 10, 1980 in the English city of Newcastle, in the family of entrepreneurs William "Billy" Hunnam (1952-2013) and Jane (Bell) Hunnam. His maternal grandmother was a famous portrait painter, his mother was also fond of painting, but his father was far from creativity in the usual sense - he collected metal from landfills and handed it over. Charlie's parents, natures too different for a happy family life, separated when he was very young. 
The actor grew up in a quarter where all issues were resolved with the help of fists. Every minute threat of danger tempered the future actor, and during adult life Charlie has always used the experience gained in his youth for the roles of "tough guys". The actor still remembers school time as survival lessons.
Charlie is the second child in the family; the actor has an older brother, William "Billy". When Hunnam was 12 years old, his mother married a second time, and the family moved to the village of Melmerby in Cumbria (England). In her second marriage, Jane gave birth to Charlie two more brothers - Oliver and Christian.
IN school years future actor was fond of playing rugby. From high school he was expelled due to dyslexia, so he was forced to graduate as an external student, after which he entered the Cumbrian College of Art and Design, where he graduated in film theory and history.
Charlie Hunnam career
Hunnam's acting career began in an unusual way: agents of the film studio noticed a 17-year-old boy in one of Newcastle's shoe stores. Young man was invited to the role of Jason's model in the series "Biker Grove" from the BBC. His character appeared in three episodes.In 1999, two cameo roles later, Hunnam was cast as the lead in Queer as Folk, a series about gay life. The series became so popular that Charlie, who brilliantly portrayed 15-year-old gay Nathan Maloney, was deemed knowledgeable enough to take part in a parliamentary debate on the discriminatory law that sets the age of consent in the UK at 16 years old.
After success in his homeland, the young man tried his hand at Hollywood. But at first, no one wanted to invite the actor who moved to Los Angeles to play the roles of "cool heroes", justifying the refusals by the fact that Charlie was "too sweet and polite." Hunnam began to play sports intensively and made a habit of coming to auditions unshaven.
At the dawn of his career, the desperate actor even wrote the script for a film about Vlad III the Impaler, known as Vlad Dracula. In 2002, while filming the military drama Cold Mountain in Romania, in which Charlie had a small role, he collected stories about the bloody prince from local residents. Hunnam said that after that he did not have a job for almost a year and a half, and if he had not sold the script to Summit Entertainment, he would have had to return to his mother in England. Hunnam's script was bought by Brad Pitt's studio.
Charlie Hunnam in the movie Hooligans
But in 2004, he was approved for a role in the film "Hooligans": Charlie played the tough leader of a group of fans of the London club West Ham United. The film, starring Elijah Wood and Hunnam, received high marks from critics and viewers, and Charlie began to fill up with interesting job offers. It was the first breakthrough young actor in big movies.
Now in the filmography of Charlie Hunnam there is a variety of genres - from cute comedies ("Undecided", 2001-2003; "Frankie Makes a Rustle", 2011) and incredible love stories ("The Price of Passion", 2011; "Nicholas Nickleby", 2002) to adventure and fantasy films (Crimson Peak, 2015; The Lost City of Z, 2016) and crime stories (Sons of Anarchy, 2008-2014; Blackbird, 2011).
This is why Charlie Hunnam didn't attend Comic Con
In 2013, Hunnam was announced by Universal Pictures for the lead role in the film adaptation. scandalous romance"50 Shades of Grey", but some time later, Charlie refused to participate in the project, citing employment in other projects. Hunnam became the third actor to turn down the role of handsome billionaire Christian Grey, whose role was eventually played by model Jamie Dornan.
In September 2016, filming began on a remake of Moth, starring Hunnam and Mr. Robot star Rami Malek. The director's chair was taken by Danish director Michael Noer.
Charlie Hunnam in King Arthur: The Sword
In May 2017, Guy Ritchie's new film "King Arthur: The Sword" was released in Russia, in which Hunnam played the main role - Arthur. The interpretation from the scandalous director of "Snatch" and the tape "Cards, Money, Two Smoking Barrels" was not worth waiting for the classic interpretation of the legend. And so it happened - in the film, Arthur appeared as the leader of a youth gang fighting for power.
Charlie Hunnam's personal life
In 1999, while casting for Dawson's Creek, Charlie met actress Catherine Towne. Neither she nor he was approved for the role, but a spark broke out between the young people, and a month after they met, the actors got married in Las Vegas. In 2002, the family broke up.In 2005, Hunnam began dating artist and jewelry designer Morgana McNelis. The couple settled in the suburbs of Los Angeles, started a small farm with chickens and ducks. The actor has repeatedly admitted that he does not like clubs and glamorous Hollywood parties, and his girlfriend fully supports him in this. 
Hunnam has two cats - George and Mavis. In an interview, Charlie admitted that of all the scents in the world, he likes the smell of his cats fur the most.
The actor collects Nike sneakers. In his collection - more than 85 pairs of models from the 90s. “You know, as a child, I could not afford such shoes and envied my peers who flaunted in Nikes. And you know what now? Yes, I can buy every pair in this world! ”, Charlie once opened up.
