Nicholas Hoult

Discovered at the age of three, by a theatre director, while watching a play

At age of five, appeared in "Intimate Relations," with Julie Walters and Rupert Graves

Appeared on several British television shows "Casualty," "The Bill," "Holby City" and "Murder in Mind"

Earned critical acclaim in his first leading role as Marcus Brewer in "About a Boy" opposite Hugh Grant and based on Nick Hornby's best-selling novel

Played the young Richard E. Grant in the actor's directorial debut, the autobiographical "Wah-Wah," an account of his extraordinary childhood spent in Swaziland