![]() ![]() He was hit by a bus while shooting an episode of Fox comedy-drama series Keen Eddie in 2003. Though his sporting career was short-lived, he's kept up his connections with the Reading Rockets and now serves as their ambassador.Ĩ. Hoult stands at 6'2" tall, so he certainly has the height of a basketball player. As a teenager, he played for his local basketball team, the Reading Rockets. I'm enjoying what he’s doing at the moment, a lot."ħ. ![]() I had so much fun watching him in Paddington 2, he was wonderful, and then in A Very English Scandal, and I'm about to start watching The Undoing. "He had so much pressure on him, and to see him free of that and just doing these wonderful dramas. "In my head, I'm thinking it's a kind of Hughnaissance, or something," Hoult told The Guardian earlier this year. He's proud of his About a Boy co-star Hugh Grant's recent career revival. It means "the beloved one" in Welsh, as Hoult explained during another appearance on The Graham Norton Show.Ħ. He has a distinctive middle name: Caradoc. I just got on stage and it was a real kick doing ballet before a live audience."ĥ. "It was the opposite of Skins! I can't even remember how I got into it, to be honest, I just ended up doing it. I was in Swan Lake the ballet and also the Nutcracker with the National Ballet," he told The Guardian in 2007. As a kid, he danced with the English National Ballet. Hoult got to relive one of his first performances – he was just six at the time – during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.Ĥ. Six years before About a Boy, he appeared in an episode of British medical drama series Casualty. "So I can maybe steer clear of some pitfalls that guys who didn't grow up with women would fall into."ģ. "My older brother left home when I was fairly young and my father was away a lot, so I was raised by my mum and my sisters," he told Elle in 2013. His great-aunt was Dame Anna Neagle, a prolific British actress who was especially popular in the 1940s.Ģ. He isn't his family's first illustrious actor. But, here are some things you might not know about him.ġ. Since then, he's balanced quirkier movies ( The Favourite, Tolkien, Kill Your Friends) with blockbuster roles ( Mad Max: Fury Road, the X-Men movies) and a Golden Globe-nominated turn in Hulu's zingy historical comedy series The Great. To whet your appetite, why not get to know Hoult a little better? As a 13-year-old he made a big splash opposite Hugh Grant in 2002's About a Boy, then five days later he starred iconic British teen series Skins. Those Who Wish Me Dead, a dystopian survival movie starring Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Hoult, premieres Friday on HBO Max. ![]()
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