Charlie Hunnam got his acting start on a British series titled Byker Grove in the late 1990s after getting discovered on Christmas Eve in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he grew up.

Hunnam recalled “dancing around” a store while trying on sneakers for his brother’s gift when “this lady was looking at me,” he told Variety in an October 2025 interview.

“So I blew her a kiss, just being the cheeky young man that I was,” he added. “It turned out that her name was Elizabeth Binns and she was the production manager for Byker Grove.”

Hunnam appeared in other projects — like Queer as Folki Undeclared and Green Street Hooligans — before nabbing the role of biker king Jax Teller in Sons of Anarchy, which he played from 2008 to 2014.

“I would look back at those early episodes and think I didn’t know w

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