British actor Charlie Hunnam is best known for playing Jax Teller in Sons Of Anarchy, but what kind of net worth did his long-running role on the series land him? As a Brit, Charlie Hunnam earned his first acting credits in UK television on shows like the BBC classic Byker Grove and Russell T. Davies’ Channel 4 drama Queer As Folk. Hunnam’s performance in Queer As Folk as a gay teenager garnered him critical acclaim and a move to the U.S. followed.
Stateside, Charlie Hunnam nabbed a recurring role in the Dawson’s Creek spin-off Young Americans and followed it with a main role in Judd Apatow’s short-lived college-set sitcom Undeclared. His first starring film role came playing the titular Nicholas Nickleby in a 2002 adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel and he later starred opposite Elijah Wood in the British football hooligan drama Green Street. Hunnam also had small roles in Cold Mountain and Children Of Men, but his real big break came with Sons Of Anarchy.
Sons Of Anarchy ran for seven seasons and 92 episodes on FX between 2008 and 2014 and starred Hunnam as Jackson “Jax” Teller, the leader of a violent California motorcycle club. While it’s not known how much the Sons Of Anarchy cast earned per episode, it must have been a pretty penny because Celebrity Net Worth estimates that Charlie Hunnam is worth around $16 million.
Outside of his TV work on Sons Of Anarchy, Hunnam has plenty of film credits too. He starred in Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi monster movie Pacific Rim in 2013, teamed up with the director again for the 2015 horror Crimson Peak and earned raves for his performance as explorer Percy Fawcett in the biographical drama The Lost City Of Z. Despite a blip with the box office bomb that was King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, Hunnam is currently back on track with a string of positively reviewed movies like Triple Frontier, True History Of The Kelly Gang and The Gentlemen.
Up next in his career, Hunnam will star alongside Mel Gibson and Morena Baccarin in action-thriller Waldo based on the novel of the same name by writer Howard Michael Gould. He’ll also star in another book-to-screen adaptation in the TV series Shantaram, playing a man who escapes from an Australian prison and takes refuge in the criminal underworld of Mumbai. Shantaram is expected to air sometime in 2020 on Apple’s newly launched streaming service Apple TV+ and, if successful, should keep Charlie Hunnam’s net worth looking healthy for the foreseeable future.