Charlie Cox, hot little fuzzball

Charlie Thomas Cox is an English actor best known for his starring role as Tristan Thorn in Stardust and more recently for his supporting role in the second and third seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire

British actor Charlie Cox’s first leading role was as Tristan Thorne in the 2007 film Stardust. He is now at the centre of an explosive storyline as Owen Slater in the Sky Atlantic Prohibition drama Boardwalk Empire.

Cox, the youngest of five children, was born in London, England, and brought up in East Sussex. He is the son of Patricia C. A. "Trisha" (née Harley) and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, who is a publisher. His paternal ancestors include Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet, Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, Sir David Carnegie, 4th Baronet, and a Colonial Governor of New York, Andrew Elliot.He was brought up as a Roman Catholic.