About Charlie Hunnam
Charles Matthew Hunnam (; born 10 April 1980) is an English actor. He portrayed Jax Teller in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor. Hunnam has been featured as the lead in numerous films, including Green Street (2005), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Pacific Rim (2013), Triple Frontier (2019). He has also portrayed Percy Fawcett in The Lost City of Z (2016) and Arthur Pendragon in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017). Hunnam's notable television projects include the Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk (1999–2000), the Fox series Undeclared (2001–2002) and the Apple TV+ series Shantaram (2022). In 2025, he portrayed the titular character in Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the third season of the Netflix true crime anthology series Monster, for which he received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, an Actor Award, and a Critics' Choice Television Award. Hunnam was discovered at the age of 17 in a branch of JD Sports on Christmas Eve, while playing around with his brother during a trip to buy shoes. A production manager for the Newcastle-based teen drama Byker Grove approached Hunnam and he was later cast in his first role as Jason for three episodes of the show. Hunnam's first major role came at age 18 when he was cast by Russell T Davies as 15-year-old schoolboy Nathan Maloney in Davies' Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk. On 2 June 2014, Hunnam was awarded a Huading Award for Best Global Emerging Actor, for his role as Raleigh in Pacific Rim due to the film performing well in Asian markets.
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