Charlie Hunnam

Charles Matthew Hunnam (born 10 April 1980) is an English actor. \n', ' He is known for his roles as Jackson "Jax" Teller in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy (2008–14), Pete Dunham in Green Street (2005), Nathan Maloney in the Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk (1999–2000), Lloyd Haythe in the Fox comedy series Undeclared (2001–02), the title role in Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Raleigh Becket in Pacific Rim (2013), Percy Fawcett in The Lost City of Z (2017), and in the title role of Guy Ritchie\'s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017).\n', ' Hunnam was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on April 10, 1980. His father, William "Billy" Hunnam (1952-2013), was a junk seller who left the house when Charlie was 2 years old. His mother is Jane Bell, a ballet dancer and business owner. She has an older brother named William and two younger half brothers on her mother\'s side named Oliver and Christian. At age 12, when his mother remarried, he moved to the village of Melmerby, Cumbria. He is of Scottish and Irish descent. One of his grandmothers painted portraits. \n', 'Hunnam is diagnosed with dyslexia, which makes it difficult for him to read and write and suffers from misophobia, fear of germs and dirt in general. During his adolescence, he played rugby and fought with his classmates, so he was expelled from Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Penrith, Cumbria, which forced him to study and to take exams from his home. After that, instead of going to University, he decided to go to the Cumbria College of Art and Design in Cumbria, to study Performing Arts, where he learned the Theory and History of Cinema. He attended Cumbria College of Art and Design, now faculty of University of Cumbria, where he graduated with a degree in the theory and history of film with a side in performing arts, with the idea of writing and directing his own films.\n', '