<P> Following these roles, Hoult found further critical and commercial success after landing the role of Beast in the X-Men films, Kenny Potter in A Single Man, the zombie R in Warm Bodies, author J.D. Salinger in Rebel in the Rye, the War Boy Nux in Mad Max: Fury Road, and as inventor Nikola Tesla in The Current War . </P> <P> Hoult was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, the third of four children of Glenis (née Brown; born 1954), a piano teacher, and Roger Hoult (born 1953), a retired British Airways pilot . His siblings are James (born 1977), Rosanna (born 1984), and Clarista (born 1992). His great - aunt was actress Dame Anna Neagle . His older siblings showed interest in acting and dancing from an early age, taking classes and attending auditions, and Hoult joined them once he found it interesting too, but clarified that it was not a pushy situation from his parents, and that they were "pretty outdoorsy normal kids". He practised ballet along with his sisters and was involved in productions of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker with the national ballet, but claims he was never any good at it . </P> <P> Hoult attended The Coombes nursery in Arborfield, Berkshire, then the Arborfield Church of England Junior School . On The Graham Norton Show, Hoult revealed that his middle name is Caradoc (pronounced / ka. rɑː'dɔk /), which in Welsh means "The Beloved One". </P> <P> Hoult's ability to concentrate at the age of three when he attended to see his brother's play got him his first acting job in the play "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". Hoult started attending auditions after that and got his first movie role at five in the drama Intimate Relations . After that he landed several guest appearances on TV shows such as Casualty, Silent Witness, The Bill and Doctors, among others . Hoult recalls he saw acting as a hobby rather than a possible profession at that age: "I wasn't in love with it, I just enjoyed it . It was like playing for a football team . When you got a part it was great . And meeting new people . It was an exciting new world ." </P>

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