Orange Rising Star Award

nominees:

Nicholas Hoult

biography

Hoult has a family history of stardom: Dame Anna Neagle, the acclaimed English stage and film actress from the 1930's, is his great aunt.

At 12 years old, Hoult left school to focus on his acting career, attending the Sylvia Young stage school and making his professional debut in the 1996 film Intimate Relations. Hoult worked mainly in television until the success of About a Boy, in which he played a nerdy 12-year-old named Marcus, alongside Hugh Grant's rich lothario, Will.

While at sixth form, he gained a lead role as Tony Stonem in the first two series of E4 drama Skins, for which he was nominated for a Walkers Home Grown Talent Award.

This year, Hoult stars in Tom Ford's directorial debut film A Single Man due for release in February, as well as the fantasy epic Clash of the Titans, due for release in March.

filmography

• Intimate Relations (1996)

• About A Boy (2002)

• Wah Eah (2004)

• Kidulthood (2006)

• Fury Road (2010)

• Clash Of The Titans (2010)

• A Single Man (2010)

what people are saying

• Nicholas Hoult is great!! @harumilh
• I love Nicholas Hoult! Skins just isn't the same without him. Check him out in Tom Ford's new spring campaign http://tr.im/Nd83 @jennylow
• Nicholas Hoult.Handsome guy!!!!!!!!! @aiyoxu
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2010 nominees

• Jesse Eisenberg
• Nicholas Hoult
• Carey Mulligan
• Tahar Rahim
• Kristen Stewart

the award

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• previous winners
• the inspiration