Christian Coulson is a British film and theater actor, director and photographer. He is well known to the audience from the movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", where he played the role of young Tom Riddle. Today, Coulson has more than thirty roles in films and TV shows. He mainly starred in comedies, melodramas and dramas, and also often appears on the theater stage.
For a small but very bright role in the melodramatic film "Leaving Circadia" Christian was nominated for the Long Beach International Film Festival Award in 2014. On account of his work in such films and TV series as: "The Clock", "The Forsyte Saga", "The Last King", "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple", "Gossip Girl", "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: He", "Mozart in the Jungle ".
In 2018, the film The Rainbow Experiment was released - a drama that tells about the conflict between teachers and students in a school where, as a result of a scientific experiment, one of the children is seriously injured. In this film, Coulson played one of the main roles. In the near future, two more films are expected to be released, in which the actor played the central roles: "Those Who Wander" and "Bite Me".
early years
The future actor was born in the fall of 1978 in England, where his creative biography began. Already at a young age, he became interested in stage skills and became an actor in the youth musical theater in London. Studying at school was easy for the boy, he was always in good standing with the teachers and repeatedly received a scholarship as the best student in the school.
Christian continued his further studies at a college at the University of Cambridge at the Department of English, where he graduated. In his student years, in addition to his passion for theater, the young man began to write his own works and poems. Soon he created a script for a musical, which he and his friends staged on the stage of the student theater in 1998.
Christine was in love with the theater and participated in almost all the performances that college students put on. They played roles in the plays: "The Career of Arturo Ui", "The Maids", in the musical "Cabaret" and in many others.
After graduation, Coulson decided to pursue his creative career, he began to look for opportunities to demonstrate his acting talent in the cinema.
Film career
Coulson was able to declare himself in 2001, when he got on television for the shooting of the series "Love in a Cold Climate". Then he received an offer to continue acting on television, because his next job was the role in the fantasy series "The Worst Witch in the College of Wizards."
The film told about the life of a girl who entered a magic college and her adventures. Coulson got the role of Ben Stenson - a man who does not possess magic, but together with the main character, who became his girlfriend in the film, constantly finding himself in a situation where magic cannot be done without. The series had a fairly high rating, and Christian managed to demonstrate his acting talent and get his first portion of fame.
Later, Coulson worked in the next series, The Forsyte Saga, and then was invited to play the role of the young Tom Riddle, who in the future became the famous magician Voldemort, in the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. After viewing the candidates for this role, Coulson was approved by J. K. Rowling herself, stating that this was exactly what the image of the young Riddle was supposed to be.
Coulson mostly got bit parts, but he was remembered by the audience for the films: "The Watch", "Captain Hornblower: Loyalty", "The Last King", "Your Britasha", "Brief Encounters", "Gossip Girl".
Christian played the central roles in the comedy films "Gabe" and "Ali in Wonderland", and the main role he got in the film "Lovers".
Personal life
Almost nothing is known about Christian's personal life. They said that he met with a certain girl during his student years, but it did not come to a serious relationship. Rumor has it that the actor is gay, but how reliable they are is hard to say.
