Skins is a British Teen Drama that lasted seven seasons and was broken into three generations. Each generation consisted of a group of teenagers attending sixth forum in Bristol, South West England. Each generation had two seasons, one death, and covered many issues such as mental illness, eating disorders, sexuality, and substance abuse. Each actor on the show had completed little to no acting before their hit roles on Skins!
Here is what the stars of Skins are doing now!
Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult is apart of the first generation of Skins. Hoult played Tony Stonem, a central character on Skins. Stonem is an antagonist of the first season and a protagonist in the second season. Stonem is popular, good-looking, and smart. The character is obsessed with having power over others and he tends to control his loved ones through manipulation or sexual encounters. Stonem, however, has a soft side for his little sister, Effy Stonem, who makes an appearance in five seasons of the show.
Once Nicholas Hoult parted ways with the TV series, he immediately blew up and has been in multiple films since.
X-Men
Hoult has a reoccurring role in the X-Men series as Hank McCoy also known as "Beast." The X-Men series is still in process as Hoult has been in four including one that is in post-production. Hoult even met his longtime ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Lawrence onset of the X-Men movies.
Warm Bodies
Hoult starred in Warm Bodies as a zombie named "R." The American film is categorized as a paranormal romantic zombie comedy. Hoult's character struggles to "feel alive" post-zombie apocalypse until he meets and protects Julie, a young woman sent on a mission to find medical supplies.
Mad Max: Fury Road
Hoult played one of the main characters in the 2015 remake of Mad Max. Hoult's character is known as "Nux," as he is a hard nut to crack. The critically and publically acclaimed movie became a knockout role for the actor especially as he acted alongside Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.
Jack O'Connell
Jack O'Connell is a lead role in the third, fourth, and seventh seasons of Skins. O'Connell's character, James Cook is apart of the second generation of characters. Cook is an impulsive and outgoing individual that does not come from much. His promiscuous and violent behavior tends to get him in trouble and affect those around him. Although O'Connell's character is known to be the life of the party, Cook struggles emotionally throughout the series.
Post Skins, O'Connell has been doing really well for himself and has landed multiple lead roles in both Britain and America!
Starred Up
Starred Up is a 2013 British Crime Drama. O'Connell stars as the lead role, Eric Love. This role is an intense one as the movie is full of action and O'Connell's character is ruthless. The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy stated, "Young actor Jack O'Connell is the main attraction in this tough British drama. O'Connell would seem to have live wires running through his whole body and it should be very interesting to follow his career from here on."
Unbroken
In Unbroken, Jack O'Connell played Louie Zamperini, a US prisoner of war in World War 2 and an Olympic distance runner. The film is directed by Angelina Jolie and it is a must see as O'Connell represents Zamperini to a T.
Money Monster
In the 2016 American thriller, Jack O'Connell played an angry investor known as Kyle Budwell. O'Connell acted alongside George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Money Monster directed by Jodie Foster.
Kaya Scodelario
Kaya Scodelario is famously known as Effy Stonem from Skins. The iconic character, Effy Stonem stars in five seasons of Skins. Actress Kaya Scodelario had no prior acting experience when she began the role of Effy at age 14. Stonem began as a smaller character primarily known as Tony's sister to a femme fatale. Effy is beautiful, appealing to all characters, mysterious, and promiscuous. Effy is a greatly romanticized character that shows signs of depression and isolation throughout the show as she struggles to accept love, her at home life is faltering, and she isolates herself including a time period of becoming mute.
Modeling
The Maze Runner
Kaya Scodelario plays Teresa in three Maze Runner movies. In the dystopian science fiction thriller, Scodelario's character is known as the first and only female Glader.
Hannah Murray
Hannah Murray played Cassie Ainsworth in the hit series, Skins. Cassie is an iconic Skins character from the first generation. Murray is in three seasons of the series. Cassie is described by Tony Stonem in the series as, "She's thin, she's blonde, she says "wow!" a lot." Cassie is a very eccentric character that suffers from multiple forms of mental illness. The most covered illness through the series is Cassie's anorexia nervosa. Cassie also struggles with thoughts of suicide, drug addiction, and low self-esteem.
Since Skins, Murray has taken roles in both television and film.
Game of Thrones
Murray has a reoccurring role in HBO hit series, Game of Thrones. The actress appears in seasons two through the current season as Gilly. Gilly started off as a reoccurring role in seasons 2-3 and became a main cast role in season 4. Murray acts alongside previous Skins costar, Joe Dempsie, who played Chris Miles.
Detroit
Murray appears in a critically acclaimed 2017 crime drama known as Detriot. In Detroit, Murray plays one of two Caucasian girls, who experience police brutality against African American men. Some of the men in the house are apart of the band, The Dramatics. Murray is known as Julie Ann in the movie.
Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya played a minor role in the first generation of Skins. Kaluuya is known as Posh Kenneth/DJ. Even though Kaluuya's role in Skins is minor, he was a contributing writer to the first two seasons of Skins and he solely wrote the episodes of "Jal" and "Thomas."
Kaluuya's career since Skins has been one of the most accomplished and acclaimed of the group.
Sicario
Daniel Kaluuya played Reggie Wayne in the 2015 American Crime Thriller, Sicario. The movie follows an FBI agent that is enlisted by a government task force to take down a powerful Mexican drug lord. A sequel to the film, Sicario 2: Soldado will be released in June of 2018.
Get Out
Kaluuya starred in the 2017 American Horror FIlm, Get Out. Kaluuya played Chris Washington, an African American man who encounters unusual behavior from his Caucasian girlfriend's parents and friends. Get Out received amazing critical feedback and has been nominated for many awards including four Academy Awards, five nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards, and two at the Golden Globes.
Dev Patel
In Skins, Dev Patel played Anwar Kharral, a character from the first generation. Anwar has a very close relationship with his best friend Maxxie Oliver! As Anwar is raised in an Islamic household, he lives two separate lives. One where he prays with his family and lives a religious lifestyle and another where he does drugs, drinks, partakes in premarital sex, hangs out with people his parents would not approve of, and eats pork.
After two seasons with Skins, Patel had no trouble finding a new project!
Slumdog Millionaire
Dev Patel starred in 2008's British Drama Slumdog Millionaire. In Slumdog Millionaire, Patel played Jamal Malik, an 18-year-old Indian Muslim from the Juhu slum. During the movie, Jamal is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Before Jamal is able to answer the final question, he is detained by the police as they do not believe a boy from the slums would be able to get all the questions right without cheating. Throughout the movie, Jamal replays his memories as to why he learned these things. Slumdog Millionaire received 8 awards and 10 nominations at the 81st Academy Awards!
Chappie
Patel also starred in the 2015 dystopian science fiction thriller, Chappie. The film is about a law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters.
Lion
Lion is a 2016 biographical drama film based on Saroo Brierley, who tries to find his family 25 years after being separated from them. Patel plays Saroo in the film. Lion received six Oscar nominations and won two BAFTA Awards.
Skins
Highlights from the two generations of Skins.
