He’s famous for playing the part of Jax in the television series,Sons of Anarchy. Hunnam is6’1and weighs160pounds. Hunnam’s dad was apparently a hood and trash vendor while his mom ran a gift shop. He’s one brother and a few half-sibs after his parents divorced and his mom remarried. He was kicked out of high school and had to conclude graduating from house however he’d attend Cumbria College of Art and Design where he’d eventually graduate using a diploma in movie as well as a minor in the performing arts.
At 18, Hunnam got his first big break when he got a guest appearance in the favorite English show Byker Grove and also would continue to acquire notoriety because of his part as “Nathan Maloney” in Queer as Folk. In 2002, he’d first reach the attention of American audiences when he starred opposite Katie Holmes in Abandon.
Having a big body of work already behind him, Hunnam would develop into a valid star recently using several high profile characters, most clearly when he was cast together with the lead character in FX’s popular Sons of Anarchy in 2008. In spite of a routine television show, Hunnam has continued to get starring roles in major Hollywood films, including 2013’s Pacific Rim, which grossed over $400 million in the box office. Hunnam wed celebrity Katharine Towne in 1999 but divorced in 2002. He’s now in a relationship with jewelry designer Morgana McNelis.
Charles Hunnam has an enough net worth to purchase:
1. 969.8 Harley Davidson Superlow Bike ($8,249.00 each) 2. 72,733.9 Sons of Anarchy Box Set — Entire Show Seasons 1-5 ($109.99 each)
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith, Cumbria Institute of the Arts
Nationality
United Kingdom
Spouse
Katharine Towne (m. 1999–2002)
Parents
William Hunnam, Jane Hunnam
Siblings
William Hunnam
Partner
Morgana McNelis (2007–)
Nicknames
Charles Matthew Hunnam , Charlie , Charlie Matthew Hunnam
Nominations
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series, People's Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Actor, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
Movies
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, The Lost City of Z, Crimson Peak, Pacific Rim, Deadfall, Frankie Go Boom, The Ledge, Children of Men, Green Street, Cold Mountain, Nicholas Nickleby, Abandon, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
TV Shows
Sons of Anarchy, Byker Grove, Undeclared, Microsoap, Queer as Folk, My Wonderful Life (UK)
Star Sign
Aries
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Trademark
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Often plays tough-guy antiheroes or psychopaths.
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Quote
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[about maintaining his physical shape all the time] Thanks for noticing my physique. Unfortunately there is no secret to it, you just have to stop eating all of the things you want to eat and exercise everyday till you have lost the will to lift. I am sick of it. I am telling you, I am giving serious consideration to hanging up my six-pack! I think I am retiring. I'm 36 now, I'm too old for this!
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I got really big, bigger than I've ever been for King Arthur. I got to 190 pounds!
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[joking about all the shirtless pictures of him online] I am tired of seeing shirtless pictures of myself too! Actually, It started in a very honorable way for me. I am naturally skinny. But I keep getting hired to play these heroic guys. Like on Sons of Anarchy for the entire 7 years, I was 20 pounds heavier than where my body naturally wants to be at. So it takes an enormous amount of time and energy to get big and strong like that. And really I was acting with a bunch of big motherfuckers so psychologically, I wanted to feel like I could hold my own. But the by product of that is that I look like a gym dude. Which was never my intention! And anytime I see a picture of myself all shirtless and six-packed out I think what a twat, what a ego driven dickhead. And then something like King Arthur comes along and you can't be a chubby King Arthur, that's not the way to go. So all my gymming, it's for the profession.
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[on full frontal nudity] The level of nudity that I do now, which is taking my shirt off, doesn't bother me at all. But I have done full frontal before. I did full frontal when I was 18 on the TV show Queer as Folk. But because I was playing a 15-year-old character, the censorship people wouldn't allow us to put it on TV. I'm sure I would [be willing to do full frontal even now]. I'll never use a body double. I'm not worried. I have nothing to hide.
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[on whether he left Fifty Shades of Grey due to the explicit sex scenes] I was excited about that element of it. The outside perception of that was that I got really cold feet and got scared of the explicit nature of the sexuality of the piece. You know what, I had such a baptism of fire with regards to sexuality on camera at the beginning of my career. I starred in the British Channel 4 miniseries Queer as Folk, where I played a young, gay character, and there were some incredible, explicit sex scenes on that show. When I was 18, I was getting fucked in the ass, completely naked, on national TV, y'know? So now that I am 16 years older and more mature, I don't anticipate [sex scenes] being too much of a problem. It's an exciting challenge.
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When Im between jobs, I need to work out a lot for my sanity. If I weren't an actor, I'd be the fittest motherfucker on the block.
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Well, I have a great deal of pride, and I care infinitely about what my peers think [about me]. It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide. I have 60 years to make the money, but the choices I make in the next five years are really going to define my career.
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"This is kind of my trilogy of madmen. I played the psycho in Cold Mountain (2003), my character in Green Street Hooligans (2005) (aka Green Street) is fairly psychotic and now I've got this role". On his role in Children of Men (2006).
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I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.
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When some films do not pay as well and you have a mortgage to pay and you are on an economy drive eating eggs and beans, and you are offered a million dollar role and you turn it down, as it is not right. I want to be doing this when I am 60 and getting the big paying roles then so I have to pick the parts that are right for the long term rather than take the money now. [on being picky choosing roles]
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Fact
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Partner of Morgana McNelis (2007-present).
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He's dyslexic.
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He is of English, 1/8th Irish, and some Scottish, descent.
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Was going to reunite with his Undeclared (2001) colleagues Jason Segel and Judd Apatow in the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008). Segel wrote the role of Aldous Snow with him in mind, but he dropped out due to not feeling the project was right for him. Russell Brand ended up getting the role.
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Now in second season playing the role of "Jax" in 'Sons of Anarchy' American television FX channel. [December 2009]
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In between season 3 and 4 of Sons of Anarchy. New movie The Ledge was bought by IFC Films [January 2011]
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Was cast as Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) but three weeks before the start of the shooting he chose to drop out the film due personal reasons and his busy schedule with Sons of Anarchy (2008).
Was going to play the "stoner" in the small independent film Anderson's Cross (2010) alongside former Undeclared (2001) co star Samm Levine and good friend Jerome Elston Scott, but couldn't because of scheduling conflicts. Director Jerome cut the part out of the script completely saying "No one replaces Charlie Hunnam".
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