Nicholas Hoult was born on December 7, 1989 in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK as Nicholas Caradoc Hoult. His parents are Glenis Hoult, a piano teacher and Roger Hoult, a pilot. He has three siblings, two sisters and one brother. His great-aunt was one of the most popular actresses of her time, Dame Anna Neagle. He attended Sylvia Young Theatre School, a school for performing arts, to start acting as a career.

His breakthrough role was as a child when he starred as Marcus Brewer in About a Boy (2002), alongside Hugh Grant. In 2005, he starred in his first American film The Weather Man (2005) as Nicolas Cage's son. At age 17, he received recognition for starring as Tony Stonem in the BAFTAs-awarded British teen-drama series Skins (2007). Later he played the role of Kenny Potter in the Oscar-nominated film A Single Man (2009) after being discovered by director Tom Ford.

Hoult was cast as Hank / Beast in the X-Men franchise and starred in the films X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019).

He also starred as "R" in the romance / horror zombie film Warm Bodies (2013), Jack in Jack the Giant Slayer (2013), Nux in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and British novelist J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings, in the biographical film Tolkien (2019).

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Nicholas Hoult and David Corenswet in Superman (2025)

Nicholas Hoult, Rebecca Koon, Phil Biedron, and Drew Scheid in Juror #2 (2024)

Nicholas Hoult and Zoey Deutch in Juror #2 (2024)

Clint Eastwood and Nicholas Hoult in Juror #2 (2024)

Nicholas Hoult and Cedric Yarbrough in Juror #2 (2024)

Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nosferatu (2024)

Nicholas Hoult and Bill Skarsgård in Nosferatu (2024)

Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer in Warm Bodies (2013)

Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult in About a Boy (2002)

Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Elliot Page, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Cudmore, Bingbing Fan, and Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

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