Charlie Shotwell

Shotwell was born on July 17, 2007 in Madison, Wisconsin.^[3] In 2015, Shotwell made his acting debut with the war-drama Man Down, playing the son of Shia LaBeouf and Kate Mara's character; Dito Montiel directed the film.^[4] He then starred as the youngest member of a survivalist left-wing philosophers' family in the Matt Ross directed comedy-drama Captain Fantastic.^[5] In 2017, Shotwell played the young Brian Walls in the Destin Daniel Cretton drama The Glass Castle.^[6] Later, he appeared in the Tali Shalom Ezer romance-drama My Days of Mercy.^[7] Soon after, Shotwell guest-starred in the episode "Lily's Law" of the TV-series Chicago Justice. Shotwell soon gained further recognition as a young John Paul Getty III in the 2017 Ridley Scott thriller All the Money in the World.^[8] Then in 2018, he performed as an English convict in the drama-thriller The Nightingale.^[9]

In 2019, Shotwell starred in the title role of the Netflix horror film Eli,^[10] directed by Ciarán Foy. Also that year, he played Joseph in the Amazon Studios comedy film Troop Zero, about 1970s girl scouts.^[11] In 2020 appears in family-thriller The Nest, playing Benjamin O'Hara, directed by Sean Durkin.^[12] Also in 2020, Shotwell appears on the horror podcast Borrasca by QCODE,^[13][14] and in the pilot episode Staged Dad on YouTube.^[15]

In 2021 he played John, in the coming-of-age psychological thriller^[16] John and the Hole, directed by Pascual Sisto and written by Nicolás Giacobone.^[17] Commenting on Charlie Shotwell's performance in Variety, Peter Debruge said that "child actor (...) goes deep in creepy family portrait [a] remarkable new talent Pascual Sisto's feature debut offers an unsettling look at a kid with something missing where his conscience should be."^[18] Also in 2021, he plays Hurley, in the horror film The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre, by Max Martini.^[19]

In February 2022, a short film "Whiskey Pete" was released on YouTube, directed by Stefan Colson, in which Shotwell plays the kid.^[20] Also in 2022, Shotwell played the young Michael Morbius in the superhero film Morbius, and Jules Brennen in Chorus, short by Daniel J. Egbert.^[21]

Charlie Shotwell has three siblings, who are also actors: Jimmy and Henry Shotwell, and a step sister, Shree Crooks, who is Greg Crooks' daughter. They worked acting together in the pilot episode of Staged Dad^[15] and the short film Whiskey Pete.^[20]