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 what the hell I was doing. I didn't have a very developed skill set," Hunnam told Variety in a September 2025 cover story. "I feel really proud of seasons 6 and 7, as though my work had finally caught up to the level of my aspiration." While he kept acting after saying goodbye to Jax, the British star became a household name once again when season 3 of Netflix's Monsters premiered in October 2025 with Hunnam as serial killer Ed Gein. Keep scrolling to see Hunnam's transformation over the years: