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Charlie Matthew Hunnam was born in Newcastle, England on April 10, 1980. He was discovered while he was clowning around in a shoe store by a production manager for the British Children's show called Byker Grove. He was soon cast in three episodes as the long locked child model "Jason." From here Charlie jumped right into the ground breaking role of 15-year-old Nathan Maloney-a gay virgin seduced by a 30-year-old man-on the British Queer as Folk; Still considured by many to be his breakout role. But it would be this role that would become his ticket to the United States where he gueststared on Young Americans as Ryder; the lad everybody loved to hate on Young Americans and then as a lead as the sexy ladies' Lloyd man on the critically acclaimed college-life series Undeclared. Hunnam's journey to the US also saw married life where in 1999 He met and married actress Katharine Town, the daughter of legendary screenwriter Robert Towne, in Las Angeles, where he now lives. The two have since divorce. Hunnam made his first leap to film in 1999 with a role as a punk rocker in the British comedy "Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?" HUnnam's US feature debut was opposite Katie Holmes in the thriller "Abandon" This was followed up with the title role in the Charles Dickens' novel "Nicholas Nickleby,” and in a smaller role in director Anthony miinghella's Civil War-era dramatic romance Cold Mountain. Recently Charlie has stared in “Green Street Hooligan” (2005), he played a charming and dangerous English thug who takes an American (Elijah Woods) expelled from Harvard under his wing and teaches him the finer points of football (not soccer) hooliganism. Currently Hunnam is listed as attached in the John Boorman adaptation of the Marguerite Yourcenar novel 'Memoirs of Hadrian' playing Antinous. |