Nicholas Hoult (born 1989) is an English actor. He has performed in supporting roles in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in the American and British film industries. He made his screen debut at the age of six in the 1996 film Intimate Relations. In 2002 he portrayed Marcus Brewer in the comedy-drama film About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He played Tony Stonem in the E4 teenage drama series Skins (2007–2008), and earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination for the 2009 drama film A Single Man. Cast as the mutant Hank McCoy in Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, he continued the role in later instalments of the series. In 2013, Hoult starred as a zombie in the romantic comedy Warm Bodies. He played Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in the historical black comedy The Favourite (2018) and the writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1754:

The word serendipity, derived from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter to a friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole

1933:

Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed "Pakstan". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Declaration

1964:

Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner were killed when the aircraft was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_T-39_shootdown_incident

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

presumptive: 1. Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed. 2. Often postpositive, as in heir presumptive: of an heir or heiress: presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior entitlement is born. 3. (embryology) Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but is presumed to develop into a particular body part. 4. Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”) 5. (often law) Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/presumptive

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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.   --José Martí https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD