Charlie Hunnam

Fair-haired, hunky British performer Charlie Hunnam began life in Newcastle, England and moved to Hollywood at the age of 19 (c. 1999) in a quest for movie and television stardom. He found it almost instantly as homosexual character Nathan on the first two seasons of the groundbreaking Showtime series drama Queer as Folk (1999-2001), then signed on to work for executive producer Judd Apatow and others with a role as a college student in the short-lived but critically-worshipped situation comedy Undeclared (2001). Hunnam's feature film contributions began shortly thereafter, and witnessed him specializing in intense, angry, often psychotic characterizations; memorable assignments included a portrayal of the nasty villain in Anthony Minghella's period drama Cold Mountain (2003); and a gold-toothed, dreadlocked psychopath in the dystopian saga Children of Men (2006). The role that truly rocketed Hunnam to acclaim, however, cut closest to his British roots: a scarily accurate evocation of a thuggish English footballer in the gritty drama Green Street Hooligans (2005). In 2007, Hunnam signed on to star in director Christopher McQuarrie hotly-anticipated psychodrama Stanford Prison Experiment, based on the titular sociological incident of the same name. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide