Following this season on Sons of Anarchy, Charlie will star in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. The film will come out in summer 2013. During his last hiatus, Hunnam starred in Jordan Roberts' Frankie Go Boom, alongside Chris O'Dowd, Lizzie Caplan and Ron Perlman. Charlie also starred in Matthew Chapman's The Ledge alongside Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, and Terrence Howard last year. Before that, Hunnam appeared with Elijah Wood in the independent film Green Street Hooligans about the violent world of soccer hooliganism. He then starred opposite Clive Owen in Alfonso Cuaron's apocalyptic drama Children of Men.

Hunnam made his big screen debut in the Paramount thriller Abandon and continued to gain attention for his performance in the title role of the big screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickelby, which received a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Picture. He next appeared as "Bosie" in the Miramax feature Cold Mountain for director Anthony Minghella based on the best-selling novel by Charles Frazier.

On the small screen, Hunnam received audience and critical acclaim for his role in the hit British drama, Queer as Folk and the FOX series Undeclared for Judd Apatow early on in his career.

In addition to his acting talents, Hunnam completed his first screenplay entitled VLAD. This project is set up at Summit Entertainment with Eric Feig and Plan B producing, and Anthony Mandler set to direct.