Charlie Hunnam is a UK actor born as Charles Matthew Hunnam. He is best known for the role he portrayed in Green Street Hooligans, Pete Dunham. The movie also starred Claire Forlani and Elijah Wood of The Lord of the Rings franchise fame. The movie follows Matt Buckner (Wood), who gets kicked off of his journalism course at Harvard University for having drugs in his dorm room. Even though the drugs were not his, he takes the fall and moves to the United Kingdom where he meets Hunnam’s character, Pete, and gets into underground fighting matches between die hard football (soccer) fans.

Hunnam has always been a huge fan of fellow actors Sean Penn and Daniel Day-Lewis and spends his time between his homes in London and Los Angeles. He is great friends with Anne Hathaway and fellow Brit, Jamie Bell, who is best known for his role in Billy Elliot. Hunnam was first noticed as he was clowning around in a British shoe shop, by the production manager of Byker Grove, a British show at the time.

Charlie Hunnan went on to guest star in three episodes of the show as child model, Jason. He then landed his big break, not long after his first appearance in Byker Grove, in Channel 4’s Queer as Folk, as Nathan Maloney. After he left the set he landed the role as Daz in the feature film, What Happened to Harold Smith?

Bitten by the acting bug and wanting more at this stage, Charlie Hunnam left his country for the shores of the United States, where he would pursue a career in the industry. Not long after landing on U.S. shores he landed a recurring role in Young Americans, a Hit TV series, and played bad-boy Gregor Ryder.

He then went on to star in the short-lived drama series, Undeclared, and took on the role of a British student studying drama. The show was cancelled after one season, which allowed Charlie Hunnam to land roles in Abandon with Katie Holmes of Dawson’s Creek fame, Nicholas Nickleby, based on the book by Charles Dickens, and Cold Mountain.

It is his role in Cold Mountain that got Charlie Hunnam noticed by his American peers. He played alongside Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger in the movie. The war drama, directed and scripted by Anthony Minghella also starred Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi and Phillip Seymor Hoffman and tells the tale of an army deserter on his way home to his true love. After his part in the movie he moved back to the United Kingdom to slow down his career, but instead landed the role of Pete in Green Street Hooligans in 2003.

He did not get a chance to take it slow after his role in Green Street, as it is popular in the UK, and landed the role of Patrick in Children of Men, alongside Clive Owen and Julianne Moore. It is only after Children of Men ended that he could take some time for himself, but his career waited for him and two years later, he went into roles in Sons of Anarchy, The Ledge, Frankie Goes Boom, and Blackbird.