Charlie Hunnam is an English actor who portrays Jax Teller in FX's Sons of Anarchy.
Biography
Hunnam was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, to father William "Billy" Hunnam (1952–2013), a gangster and scrap metal merchant, and mother Jane Hunnam, a business owner. His maternal grandmother was the premiere portrait artist in Newcastle. Hunnam was the second child born after brother William "Billy"; he later had two younger half-brothers, Oliver and Christian, on his mother's side. His parents split up when he was two years old and he moved to the village of Melmerby, Cumbria when he was 12, as his mother remarried. He went to Heaton Manor School in Newcastle, and after moving he went to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Penrith, Cumbria. Hunnam got expelled from secondary school and did his exams from home. He attended Cumbria College of Art and Design, where he graduated with a degree in the theory and history of film with a side in performing arts.
Selected Filmography
- Pacific Rim as Raleigh Becket
- Children of Men as Patric
- Green Street Hooligans as Pete Dunham
- Queer as Folk as Nathan Maloney
- Undeclared as Lloyd Haythe
- Abandon as Embry Larkin
- Deadfall as Jay
- Cold Mountain as Bosie
- 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom as Frankie
- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Daz
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