Charlie Shotwell

Shotwell was born in Madison, Wisconsin. 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. He then starred as the youngest member of a survivalist left-wing philosophers' family in the Matt Ross directed comedy-drama Captain Fantastic. In 2017, Shotwell played the young Brian Walls in the Destin Daniel Cretton drama The Glass Castle. Later, he appeared in the Tali Shalom Ezer romance-drama My Days of Mercy. 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. Then in 2018, he performed as an English convict in the drama-thriller The Nightingale.

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

In 2021 he played John, in the coming-of-age psychological thriller John and the Hole, directed by Pascual Sisto and written by Nicolás Giacobone. 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." Also in 2021, he plays Hurley, in the horror film The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre, by Max Martini.

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