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This week’s crush was plucked out of almost obscurity by Steven Spielberg to star in War Horse, a heart-wrenching World War I drama released on Christmas Day that already has major Oscar buzz. Jeremy Irvine, a twenty-one year old ex-London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts student  is best known for his role as Luke on the UK Disney Channel Series Life Bites. What do we love about this British hottie? For one thing, his sudden thrust into the limelight hasn’t turned him into a Hollywood snob. He told the Daily Mail that “‘I can’t imagine what would happen if I ever came back [home] and started being a bit of a diva. I think I’d have my head ripped off. My family wouldn’t stand for it.” He’s also multi-talented: he plays several instruments including piano, and saxophone and he’s also a fast learner. Before he landed the lead in War Horse, he hadn’t spent a single second in a saddle.

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He has spent some serious time on the stage as well as the screen though, acting with The National Youth Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He’s even played Romeo, one half of the pair of star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet. Wherefore art thou Jeremy in 2012? He’ll be starring in an upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations alongside Helene Bonham Carter, and Now Is Good with Dakota Fanning.