Charlie Heaton is a British film and television actor who began his career with a small role on the series. His work on the television show "Stranger Things", which has been broadcast on Netflix since 2016, brought him success and fame.
Charlie Ross Heaton was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, UK. He was born on February 6, 1994. Charlie has an older sister named Susan. The boy spent his childhood and adolescence in Yorkshire, and then moved with his family to London.
Facts from the biography of Charlie Heaton
Charlie has been interested in creativity and art since childhood. However, he did not dream of becoming an actor from an early age. To a greater extent, he was attracted by music, therefore, during his education at school, he attended a music studio, where he learned to play percussion instruments.
When school was finished, and Charlie was sixteen years old, he and his sister and mother moved to London, where his father lived permanently. It was in the English capital that the young man began to develop his creative career. Young Charlie joined the musical group Comanechi, which played in the rock style. For some time, Heaton was a drummer in the group and toured cities with the guys.
Despite touring, Charlie was constantly experiencing an acute shortage of money. His group did not become super popular, and at some point the future famous actor decided to abandon his musical career. He was forced to get a job as a bartender in one of the English bars. It was there that Charlie was noticed by TV people. He was offered to star in a small video ad, to which Heaton willingly agreed. Interestingly, for his work in advertising, Charlie was awarded an award from the Cannes Film Festival for his excellent acting.
Career in film and television
Charlie Heaton's full-fledged acting career began with a role in the television series Aftermath. In this project, the aspiring actor played a character named Gary McCready and appeared in two episodes. The series was released in 2015. In the same year, several more projects appeared in which Charlie worked:
- "The Schoolboy", short film;
- "Faith", TV series, Heaton played in one episode;
- Catastrophe, TV series, actor appeared here in two episodes;
- "Urban and the Garage Team", motion picture;
- "The ascent of the infantryman 2", film.
The next year, the filmography of the young actor was replenished with two more full-length films. Charlie Heaton starred in the drama As Is and also appeared on the set of Locked Up.
Charlie Heaton's work in the popular TV series Stranger Things helped him become a famous and truly in-demand young actor. This TV show started airing in 2016. Heaton got one of the leading roles: he tried on the image of Jonathan Byers. At the moment, the actor has starred in 16 episodes of the series and continues to work on this show to this day.
In 2017, a new film with Charlie Heaton was released - "Abode of Shadows". And in the same year, Charlie was awarded the Screen Actors Guild of America for his role in the TV series "Stranger Things." And in the summer of 2019, the premiere of the long-awaited movie "New Mutants", which is based on Marvel comics, should take place. Heaton got the role of a character named Sam "Cannonball" Guthrie.
Family, relationships and personal life
For a long time, the talented actor was in a romantic relationship with a girl named Akika Matsuura, who is engaged in music and plays percussion instruments. Young people lived in a civil marriage. In 2014, they had a child - a son named Archie. However, at some point, the relationship between Charlie and his chosen one ended.
Now Charlie Heaton tries not to talk in detail about his personal life, he has no wife.
