In June 2010, Minghella was cast in the Russian science-fiction film The Darkest Hour, released in December 2011. In David Fincher's The Social Network, the 2010 film about the origins of Facebook, he plays Divya Narendra, one of the Harvard upperclassmen who sues Mark Zuckerberg for stealing the idea behind Facebook. Later in 2008, Minghella played a pompous film director in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, and was seen in a segment of the dark comedy Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. The film is set in 4th century Egypt and revolves around Hypatia of Alexandria. In March 2008, it was announced that he would star in Alejandro Amenábar's second English language film, Agora. The press reported in 2007 that Minghella was cast in Beeban Kidron's Hippie Hippie Shake, a film about writer Richard Neville set in 1960s London. He was to play Art Bechstein in the film version of writer Michael Chabon's novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, but dropped out of the project due to his university schedule. He described it as "a really sweet film". His film Elvis and Anabelle, a dark romantic drama in which he plays an undertaker's son, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in 2007. He got the part after meeting Zwigoff when he visited the set of Bee Season. In 2006, he starred in the Daniel Clowes adaptation Art School Confidential, a comedy directed by Terry Zwigoff. Minghella's other 2005 role was the political thriller Syriana, which was also released in November, and in which he played the son of George Clooney's CIA agent character. The film was released in November 2005 to mostly mixed reviews and low box office, grossing only $1 million in its limited release, although critics remarked that Minghella was "a talented young actor to watch, delivering a strong performance". His first professional role was in Bee Season, playing the son of a dysfunctional Jewish American family. Minghella had an uncredited appearance as an extra in his father's film Cold Mountain. I thought up until about age 16 that I was going to be a music video director." And growing up I was massively concerned with seeming cool. He said: "I thought it was sort of embarrassing to say you wanted to be an actor – it was, like, uncool. He did not always want to become an actor. Minghella was inspired to become an actor during his late teenage years, after seeing a production of the play This Is Our Youth at London's West End he subsequently dropped out of the University College School to pursue an acting career, and attended the National Youth Theatre. He said that he felt like "an English boy at an American school", that he kept to himself, and that most of his fellow students did not know that he was an actor. He typically worked on films only during his summer break. He then attended Columbia University, which he considered his "first priority", and studied history, graduating in 2009. He was educated at St Anthony's Preparatory School and University College School in Hampstead. Minghella spent time on his father's film sets while growing up, of which he has "fond memories" and has said that he felt "no pressure" by his father to succeed in the entertainment industry. His maternal great-grandfather was Hong Kong legislator Robert Kotewall, and his maternal great-great-grandfather was Calcutta-born businessman Emanuel Raphael Belilios. His maternal grandfather was of three quarters Han Chinese and one quarter Jewish descent, and his maternal grandmother was of Chinese, English, Irish, Indian Parsi, and Swedish ancestry. His father was born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, and was of Italian descent, and his mother was born in Hong Kong. Minghella was born in Hampstead, London, the son of director Anthony Minghella and dancer and choreographer Carolyn Jane Choa.
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