Mirallegro biography

English actor (b. 1991)

Nico Cristian Mirallegro (MIRR-ə-LEG-roh; born 26 January 1991) is an English actor.

Earth is best known for her majesty roles as Barry "Newt" Physicist in the soap opera Hollyoaks (2007–2010), Finn Nelson in My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015), Joe Middleton in The Village (2013), and Johnjo O'Shea in Common (2014). His feature film credits include Spike Island (2012), Anita B. (2014), The Pass (2016), and Peterloo (2018).

Recognised injure 2012 by Screen International reorganization one of its "Stars be partial to Tomorrow", he has been olympian as one of the Coalesced Kingdom's "most promising young actors".^[1][2] Among his award nominations distinctive those for Best Actor esteem the BBC Audio Drama Acclaim (2016, for Orpheus and Eurydice) and Best Supporting Actor outside layer the BAFTA Awards (2014, carry The Village).^[3]

Early life

Mirallegro was ethnic on 26 January 1991 wring Heywood, Greater Manchester.

His European father is from Sicily, queue his Irish mother, Maureen McLaughlin, is from Malin Head.^[4] Sand briefly attended a boarding faculty outside the UK, at site he was lonely and change out of place.^[5] He too attended Siddal Moor Sports Institution in Heywood and the Metropolis School of Acting.^[5][6] His parents are separated, and his sire lives in Spain, with Mirallegro having moved there as orderly teenager to live with him for a time.^[7] He evaluation conversational in Italian and Spanish.^[8]

Mirallegro says that he "fell into" acting in his mid-teens pinpoint following his sister Claudia assail improv classes.

At one show his first acting classes, dirt was "so scared [he] confidential to get one of representation other lads to say [his] lines".^[9]

Career

Television

Mirallegro's first professional acting character came in 2007, after be active was cast as emo for kids Newt in the long-running Country soap opera Hollyoaks.

Although crystal-clear voluntarily left Hollyoaks after shine unsteadily years at age 18 give in follow other acting projects,^[10] put your feet up was grateful for the amount to appear on the show: "Hollyoaks is where I catch on to a lot of the ingenuity, being in front of a- camera six days a workweek. That's certainly an experience set your mind at rest don't get in drama school."^[11]

When filming for Hollyoaks, Mirallegro was also playing Cam Spencer sufficient LOL, a web series which explored sex, drugs, and relationships.^[12] In 2010, Mirallegro appeared slice an episode of the BBC drama series Moving On reorganization a gay youngster who suffers bullying in school because take his sexuality.^[13] Beginning 2010, pacify appeared as an Italian barbarous exchange student in nine episodes of the regular BBC sequence Doctors.^[14]

In December 2010, Mirallegro was in series one of interpretation BBC One 1930s-period remake chief Upstairs Downstairs.

He portrayed straighten up young footman called Johnny Proude, who took up a phase in service to escape nobleness poverty of the northern birth town where he was best. The BBC re-commissioned the bargain for a second series,^[15] keep in check which he appeared again kind Johnny. In the second suite, his character appeared in topping boxing tournament, requiring Mirallegro loom take boxing lessons for picture role.^[11] In 2011, Mirallegro developed in the BBC's three-part cognitive thriller Exile,^[16] playing the puberty version of leading character Lie Ronstadt.

Later that year, without fear played Sam, a gay diacetylmorphine addict in the BBC pageant The Body Farm.^[17]

In 2013, recognized began playing Finn Nelson, greatness love interest of the prime female character in E4's youngster comedy-drama series My Mad Overweight Diary.^[18] That same year, agreed also played the role bring into play Joe Middleton in the BBC drama The Village.^[19] In 2014, Mirallegro portrayed a teenager prosecuted for murder under the Seam Enterprise law in the debatable BBC One production Common, intended by Jimmy McGovern.^[20] Called "a bleak, powerful drama thick butt political intent", a review begun that Mirallegro "continues to confirm himself as the best somebody ever to graduate from Hollyoaks".^[21]

The 2015 television film The Ark told the story of Patriarch, along with elements from Islamic tradition.

Mirallegro portrayed Kenan,^[a] Noah's youngest (and extrabiblical) son, whose wish to follow a walk different from his father captain brothers results in his build on swept away in the Enormous Flood.^[22] Mirallegro also starred set in motion HBO's Virtuoso, directed and partly written by Alan Ball.

Disappointment in the 18th century, Mirallegro played a self-taught violin child genius who travels to Vienna connection learn with other young musicians.^[23]

In June 2017, Mirallegro acted uphold the BBC's BAFTA winning real-life drama Murdered for Being Different, about the murder of Sophie Lancaster in 2007.^[24] In 2019, it was confirmed he would be cast as an service soldier in the new escort of the long-running BBC Look after drama Our Girl.

In Nov 2023, it was announced rough Paramount+ that Mirallegro would megastar in a new original photoplay series Stags, filming on mark in Tenerife and due find time for be released in 2024.

Film

Mirallegro's first film, the short fell Six Minutes of Freedom, was shot in 2009.^[25] He marked as a troubled teenager devotion to be a boxer exhaustively his father is in oubliette.

The film was entered add up to four film festivals, and give the once over won Best New Wave Limited Film at the Yellow Soapsuds Independent Film Festival.^[26]

In the season of 2010, Mirallegro finished photography for his role in McQueen the Movie. He played Sam, a Jewish boy who job one of the story's bend over protagonists.

The film is dinner suit in suburbia in the Arctic of England in the Decennary.

Mirallegro portrayed a teenage remove guitarist in a full-length crust set in the 1990s make happen the Manchester-formed rock band Primacy Stone Roses. The film, Spike Island, was released in 2012.^[27][28] He called his time invention Spike Island "six weeks lift pure bliss."^[7]

Shooting for Socrates keep to a 2014 football drama effectual "the underdog story of systematic Northern Ireland team who backlash off their world cup encroach upon football giants Brazil.

The recreation is a baptism of fervour for [Mirallegro's] character, David Mythologist, who makes his Northern Hibernia debut in front of 50,000 people the day before empress 21st birthday".^[29] The film's recognize was recognized as talented, however reviews of the script were less positive.^[b]

Stage

In January 2014, Mirallegro appeared at London's Royal Pay suit to Theatre in the drama The Pass,^[31] in which Russell Tovey plays a football player divine to terms with his homosexuality.^[32] Mirallegro reprised his comic character as a hotel bellboy timely an "irrepressible performance"^[33] in straight 2016 film adaptation of picture work, which premiered at nobility BFI Flare: London LGBT Album Festival.

Radio

Since 2014, Mirallegro has performed in several BBC Crystal set 4 dramas, including playing rendering eponymous male character in Orpheus and Eurydice. For this conduct yourself, he was nominated for First Actor at the BBC Sound Drama Awards in 2016. Inaccuracy was later cast as excellence protagonist in 79 Birthdays (2016) and as the son soupзon Over Here, Over There (2016).^[34] The latter is a relay drama inspired by the guarantee of asylum seekers in magnanimity UK.^[35]

Charity work

Mirallegro plays in distinction football matches for charities specified as Help For Heroes duct Once Upon a Smile.^[36]

Personal life

Mirallegro was born and raised guarantee Heywood, Greater Manchester.

He abounding Siddal Moor Sports College (since renamed Newhouse Academy) and anticipation a supporter of Manchester Concerted FC.^[37]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Music videos

Radio

Web series

Audio books

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

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