Among his other film roles are Spike Island , Anita B. Recognised in by Screen International as one of its "Stars of Tomorrow", he has been lauded as one of the United Kingdom's "most promising young actors".
Mirallegro says that he "fell into" acting in his mid-teens after following his sister Claudia to improv classes. At one of his first acting classes, he was "so scared [he] had to get one of the other lads to say [his] lines". Mirallegro's first professional acting role came in , after he was cast as emo teenager Newt in the long-running British soap opera Hollyoaks.
Although he voluntarily left Hollyoaks after two years at age 18 to follow other acting projects, [10] he was grateful for the opportunity to appear on the show: "Hollyoaks is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school.
When filming for Hollyoaks , Mirallegro was also playing Cam Spencer in LOL , a web series which explored sex, drugs, and relationships. He portrayed a young footman called Johnny Proude, who took up a position in service to escape the poverty of the northern mining town where he was born. The BBC re-commissioned the production for a second series, [15] in which he appeared again as Johnny. In the second series, his character appeared in a boxing tournament, requiring Mirallegro to take boxing lessons for the role.
In , he began playing Finn Nelson, the love interest of the main female character in E4 's teen comedy-drama series My Mad Fat Diary. The television film The Ark told the story of Noah , along with elements from Islamic tradition.
Mirallegro portrayed Kenan, [a] Noah's youngest and extrabiblical son, whose wish to follow a path different from his father and brothers results in his being swept away in the Great Flood. Set in the 18th century, Mirallegro played a self-taught violin prodigy who travels to Vienna to learn with other young musicians.
Mirallegro's first film, the short film Six Minutes of Freedom , was shot in In the summer of , Mirallegro finished filming for his role in McQueen the Movie. He played Sam, a Jewish boy who is one of the story's two protagonists. The film is set in suburbia in the North of England in the s. Mirallegro portrayed a teenage lead guitarist in a full-length film set in the s about the Manchester-formed rock band The Stone Roses.
The film, Spike Island , was released in Shooting for Socrates is a football drama telling "the underdog story of a Northern Ireland team who kick off their world cup against football giants Brazil. The game is a baptism of fire for [Mirallegro's] character, David Campbell, who makes his Northern Ireland debut in front of 50, people the day before his 21st birthday".
He was later cast as the protagonist in 79 Birthdays and as the son in Over Here, Over There Mirallegro is a supporter of Manchester United FC. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. English actor. Heywood, Greater Manchester , England. Some later Islamic commentators give his name as either Yam or Kan'an.
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