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From today's featured article  Nicholas Hoult (born 1989) is an English actor. He has performed in supporting roles in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in the American and British film industries. He made his screen debut at the age of six in the 1996 film Intimate Relations. In 2002 he portrayed Marcus Brewer in the comedy-drama film About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He played Tony Stonem in the E4 teenage drama series Skins (2007–2008), and earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination for the 2009 drama film A Single Man. Cast as the mutant Hank McCoy in Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, he continued the role in later instalments of the series. In 2013, Hoult starred as a zombie in the romantic comedy Warm Bodies. He played Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in the historical black comedy The Favourite (2018) and the writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019). (Full article...)

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