Nicholas "Nick" Hoult

Crackberry · November 30, 2008

Nicholas "Nick" Hoult

Source: Wikipedia

Nicholas Caradoc "Nick" Hoult (Born 7 December 1989) is an English actor.

Early life

Hoult, the third of four children, was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, the son of Glenis, a piano teacher, and Roger Hoult, a pilot for British Airways. His siblings are James, Rosie and Clarista. His great aunt was Dame Anna Neagle. He attended Ranelagh School in Bracknell, Berkshire, but left in year 12 to focus on his acting career.

Career

Hoult attended the Sylvia Young stage school, made his professional debut in the 1996 film Intimate Relations, and worked mainly in television, until the success of About a Boy, in which he played a nerdy teenager named Marcus, alongside Hugh Grant's rich London Lothario.

While at sixth form, he gained a lead role as Tony in the first two series of E4 drama Skins. Hoult has been nominated for a Walkers Home Grown Talent Award.

In 2009 he will make his stage debut at London's Trafalgar Studios in New Boy, which is based on the novel by William Sutcliffe.

Selected filmography

* Judge John Deed

* About a Boy

* Wah-Wah

* The Weather Man

* Kidulthood

* Coming Down the Mountain

* Skins

* Wallander

Radio

* Jack's Love (2005) as Jack