Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Caradoc Hoult (born December 7, 1989) is an English actor. His body of work includes supporting work in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in both the American and the British film industries. He has been nominated for awards such as a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Born and raised in Wokingham, Berkshire, Hoult was drawn to acting from a young age and appeared in local theatre productions as a child. He made his screen debut at age seven in the 1996 film Intimate Relations, and appeared in several television programmes between 1998 and 2001. Hoult's breakthrough role came when he played Marcus Brewer in the 2002 comedy-drama film About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He achieved wider recognition and praise for his performance as Tony Stonem in the E4 teen comedy-drama series Skins (2007–2008). His transition to adult roles began with the 2009 drama film A Single Man, for which he earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, and the fantasy film Clash of the Titans (2010). He was cast as the mutant Hank McCoy in Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in later instalments of the series.
In 2013, Hoult played the lead title role in the fantasy adaptation Jack the Giant Slayer and starred as a zombie in romantic comedy Warm Bodies. Following a supporting role in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Hoult starred in a number of independent films before portraying various real-life figures such as Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford in the historical black comedy The Favourite (2018), writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019), and Peter III in the Hulu comedy-drama series The Great (2020–present). In 2021, he starred in the survival thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead.
Born and raised in Wokingham, Berkshire, Hoult was drawn to acting from a young age and appeared in local theatre productions as a child. He made his screen debut at age seven in the 1996 film Intimate Relations, and appeared in several television programmes between 1998 and 2001. Hoult's breakthrough role came when he played Marcus Brewer in the 2002 comedy-drama film About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He achieved wider recognition and praise for his performance as Tony Stonem in the E4 teen comedy-drama series Skins (2007–2008). His transition to adult roles began with the 2009 drama film A Single Man, for which he earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, and the fantasy film Clash of the Titans (2010). He was cast as the mutant Hank McCoy in Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in later instalments of the series.
In 2013, Hoult played the lead title role in the fantasy adaptation Jack the Giant Slayer and starred as a zombie in romantic comedy Warm Bodies. Following a supporting role in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Hoult starred in a number of independent films before portraying various real-life figures such as Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford in the historical black comedy The Favourite (2018), writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019), and Peter III in the Hulu comedy-drama series The Great (2020–present). In 2021, he starred in the survival thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead.
Known for
Superman
Nosferatu
The Order
The Garfield Movie
Renfield
The Menu
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Crossing Swords
The Great
The Banker
True History of the Kelly Gang
Dark Phoenix
Tolkien
Watership Down
Once Upon a Deadpool
The Favourite
Deadpool 2
The Current War
Newness
Rebel in the Rye
Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road
Sand Castle
Collide
X-Men: Apocalypse
Kill Your Friends
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Equals
Mad Max: Fury Road
Dark Places
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Young Ones
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Jack the Giant Slayer
Warm Bodies
X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
X-Men: First Class
Clash of the Titans
Heavy Rain
A Single Man
Live from Studio Five
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Wallander
Coming Down the Mountain
The Graham Norton Show
Skins
The Charlotte Church Show
Kidulthood
The Weather Man
Wah-Wah
The Friday Night Project
Keen Eddie
Top Gear
About a Boy
Judge John Deed
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Waking the Dead
Murder in Mind
Holby City
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Intimate Relations
Silent Witness
GMTV
Casualty
The Bill