Harry Edward Styles was calved connected Feb. 1, 1994, successful the Worcestershire municipality of Evesham, to Anne Cox and Desmond Styles. He has an older sister named Gemma, who was calved successful 1990.

The household moved to Holmes Chapel, successful Cheshire, erstwhile helium was a babe and, according to Anne, her son's archetypal connection was "cat."

Styles called the colony of astir 5,000 radical that helium grew up successful "quite boring," but "picturesque."

In the 1D biography Dare to Dream, Harry recalled crying—not a mean occurrence for him—when his parents told him and Gemma that they were splitting up. He was 7.

"I conjecture I didn't truly get what was going connected properly, I was conscionable bittersweet that my parents wouldn't beryllium unneurotic anymore," helium said.

Des and Anne continued to unrecorded unneurotic for different 2 years earlier helium moved out and Anne moved Harry and Gemma to Northwich, successful the Cheshire countryside. By the clip Harry was a teenager, they lived backmost successful Holmes Chapel.

After being unneurotic for implicit a decade, Anne joined Robin Twist successful 2013. Harry walked his ma down the aisle and was champion antheral astatine their wedding.

By each accounts, Harry was an attention-loving, originative small lad and a calved entertainer (whether it was singing oregon streaking done a bid presumption successful his boxers). He got a unreserved from doing schoolhouse plays, and the euphony he'd perceive to with his dada connected weekends—classic stone similar Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Queen—helped signifier his ain taste.

According to Louisa Jepson's 2013 biography Harry Styles—Every Piece of Me, the archetypal signaling helium made, utilizing a karaoke instrumentality that was a contiguous from his grandfather, was Elvis' "The Girl of My Best Friend." As helium got older, Coldplay, John Mayer and Noel Gallagher joined his roster of favorites. 

When helium archetypal got into a band astatine astir 14, Harry intended to larn the bass, but they already had a feline who played bass, truthful helium ended up being the singer. They called themselves White Eskimo and ended up winning their school's Battle of the Bands competition, which came with a £100 prize and helped them people their archetypal gig, playing a wedding.

"He's surely not shy astir himself," Anne told Now mag astir her lad successful 2010. "Ever since helium was young he's made radical smile. I ever thought he'd extremity up connected stage."

Harry earned a small other scratch—£6 an hour—working astatine W. Mandeville bakery connected Saturdays. 

"He was the astir polite subordinate of unit we've ever had," his erstwhile boss, Simon Wakefield, told the Mirror in 2013, erstwhile Styles returned to the store to sprout scenes for One Direction: This Is Us. "Customers truly took a radiance to him." 

Wakefield continued, "The store abruptly had an influx of girls erstwhile Harry worked here. Sometimes determination would beryllium 12 of them pouring successful astatine 1 time. Even now, a radical of 20 girls volition sometimes travel successful and commencement taking photos of the shop. He was a truly hard worker. His jobs were serving successful the shop, cleaning the back, ­scrubbing the floor, washing the trays and cleaning the counter."

Anne was the 1 who ended up sending Harry's X Factor exertion successful erstwhile helium got acold feet.

"People archer maine I'm a bully singer. It's usually my mum," the 16-year-old said, already the charmer, erstwhile helium auditioned for The X Factor in the outpouring of 2010, performing Stevie Wonders' "Isn't She Lovely" a cappella. "Singing is what I privation to bash and if radical who tin marque that hap for maine deliberation I shouldn't beryllium doing that, past it's a large setback successful my plans."

Well, they did and they didn't. Harry didn't marque it done to the last Boys group, oregon adjacent to the penultimate Boys group, but the amusement didn't privation to fto him go. 

Fatefully, Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger, who was a impermanent justice filling successful for Cheryl Cole, thought to radical Harry unneurotic with chap aspiring solo artists Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson.

"Come on, I'm not going to instrumentality credit, but I'm going to instrumentality credit," Scherzinger says successful the 2013 documentary One Direction: Going Our Way astir her usually uncredited relation successful capturing lightning successful a bottle. (Louis Walsh, meanwhile, was the other judge, the 1 who infamously didn't get Harry astatine all.)

It was Harry, however, who came up with the group's name.

"I thought it sounded good," helium recalled connected CBS Sunday Morning in 2017. "We threw astir names for a small bit, and I honestly don't know. I suggested it and everyone was like, 'Yeah, we similar that,' and past it benignant of stuck, and that was what it was."

"Basically we conscionable came up with the thought to marque loads of names up," Zayn said connected Phoenix's Hot 97.5 FM successful 2012, "and it was 1 of the archetypal names Harry came up with. He conscionable texted it to america and we were like, 'Yeah, I similar that, it's cool.' There were immoderate truly embarrassing ones that Liam came up with...What was the different one? USP—Unique Selling Point."

In October 2010, One Direction deed the X Factor stage unrecorded for the archetypal time.

"I cognize I'm his mum, but helium truly is simply a beauteous young antheral and he's coming crossed precisely arsenic helium is astatine home," Anne praised Harry to Now during his tally connected the show.

"But erstwhile helium went disconnected to the X Factor house I said to him, 'Keep existent to who you are, Harry, don't crook into an arse. You'll inactive person to unload the dishwasher erstwhile you get home.'"

Even though helium was calved to bash this for a living, erstwhile the unrecorded shows began, Harry started having panic attacks before going onstage, per Alice Montgomery's Harry. One clip helium threw up successful the hallway first, and helium yet took to drinking sparkling mineral h2o and doing breathing exercises to settee himself.

"I utilized to beryllium friends with girls arsenic good arsenic boys," Harry erstwhile said, remembering his superior schoolhouse days, according to biographer Louisa Jepson. "I wasn't 1 of those boys who thought girls were smelly and didn't similar them. I was benignant of friends with everyone."

His White Eskimo bandmate Will Sweeny told the Daily Star, "I cognize it sounds comic but, adjacent successful superior school, helium had a fewer girls connected the go. It was alternatively amusing. From Year Four, erstwhile helium was astir 10, Harry started with due girlfriends. He conscionable had this unbelievable mode with girls each his life."

Louis Tomlinson erstwhile told The Sun, possibly needling his pal connected intent a bit, that the lone occupation with sharing a level with Harry "is the changeless watercourse of women helium is getting done our door. It's relentless." (Surely Louis could've gone toe-to-toe with his roommate, but helium was successful a narration with Eleanor Calder.)

Dad Desmond assured Jepson, however, that erstwhile his lad was superior astir a girl, helium was a one-woman bloke. 

Harry besides took information seriously. "The archetypal clip I had sex, I was frightened I got the miss pregnant," helium told OK! in 2012. "And that was contempt the information we were safe. Luckily, we were fine. To get lazy and accidental you'll beryllium good is selfish."

After One Direction won The X Factor, successful 2011 Harry publically acceptable his sights connected 22-year-old Frankie Bridge of The Saturdays and 31-year-old Caroline Flack, big of the X Factor supplement The Xtra Factor.

"I've been successful emotion with Frankie since I was astir 8 and she was successful S Club Juniors," helium told the Daily Star Sunday. "I adjacent had posters of her. I'd emotion to buss her. Frankie and Caroline Flack are my favorites, they're some hot." After the interview, helium commented on The X Factor website, "If Caroline Flack is speechmaking this, accidental 'hi' from me. She's gorgeous!"

In October 2011, Harry and Caroline came look to look astatine a amusement after-party astatine London's W Hotel and they near unneurotic (though, according to Alice Montgomery, thing successful peculiar occurred betwixt them that night). 

"We were some single, we got connected good and we had a laugh," Flack wrote successful her 2015 memoir, Storm successful a C Cup. "It was lone erstwhile it go nationalist cognition that things turned sour. At the opening it was each precise playful. He joked astir being attracted to older women."

Even portion they insisted they were conscionable friends, One Directioners came retired successful unit to laic assertion to Harry, resulting successful Flack tweeting, "I'm adjacent friends with Harry. He's 1 of the nicest radical I know. I don't merit decease threats."

"Flack off, Caroline," work a banner connected show astatine a 1D concert.

Meanwhile, neither fans nor critics would laic disconnected the 14-year property gap. "What's hard for maine to get my caput astir is radical saying it's disgusting," Flack told Now. "I don't deliberation it is. Some radical thin to spot the antagonistic instantly and that's what I find strange. If 2 radical similar each different and get on, wherefore does anyone other find a antagonistic successful it?"

With 1D connected the verge of planetary super-stardom, however, the brace softly stopped seeing different successful aboriginal 2012. 

Harry appeared with the remainder of 1D connected a 2012 occurrence of iCarly, successful which the set is owed to execute (as themselves) but Harry catches, um, "jungle worms" aft drinking retired of Carly's h2o bottle, soon aft the doc warns her she could inactive beryllium contagious and to not spell astir kissing anyone yet. And adjacent aft he's better, Harry insists helium inactive has that mysterious affliction truthful that Carly volition support taking attraction of him.

Those brainsick kids! Eventually Harry gets amended and 1D tin spell up with singing "That's What Makes You Beautiful."

This little infinitesimal successful past lives connected on YouTube and successful the signifier of tweets similar this gem from 2013: "If you consciousness rejected conscionable know- Harry Styles refused to buss Miranda Cosgrove successful the archetypal publication of the One Direction occurrence of iCarly."

"I already cognize 1 of the biggest artists successful the satellite thinks Harry is truthful hot," Justin Bieber told the Daily Mirror in 2012, aft the Kids' Choice Awards that brought Taylor Swift and Styles together, "but I person been sworn to secrecy."

"She's a large miss and she's highly talented," Harry told Seventeen appreciatively that summer about Swift. "Honestly, she couldn't beryllium a sweeter person."

Though it wasn't meant to last, Taylor was astatine 1D's Madison Square Garden debut that December (Harry was pelted with bras, undies and, inexplicably, an iPhone) and they were the prince and princess of pop for a fewer shining months, from their nationalist day successful Central Park, to their whirlwind travel to Harry's aged stomping grounds of Northwich, to their ill-fated travel to the Caribbean that ended with Taylor connected a boat, alone.

"When I spot photos from that day," Styles told Rolling Stone in 2017, astir their NYC parkland date, "I think: Relationships are hard, astatine immoderate age. And adding successful that you don't truly recognize precisely however it works erstwhile you're 18, trying to navigate each that worldly didn't marque it easier. I mean, you're a small spot awkward to statesman with. You're connected a day with idiosyncratic you truly like. It should beryllium that simple, right? It was a learning acquisition for sure. But astatine the bosom of it—I conscionable wanted it to beryllium a mean date."

Referring to Swift's songs "Out of the Woods" and "Style," assumed to beryllium astir him, Styles said, "I'm fortunate if everything helped make those songs. That's what hits your heart. That's the worldly that's hardest to say, and it's the worldly I speech slightest about. That's the portion that's astir the 2 people. I'm ne'er going to archer anybody everything."

Asked if helium had thing to archer Swift, helium mused, "Certain things don't enactment out. There's a batch of things that tin beryllium right, and it's inactive wrong. In penning songs astir worldly similar that, I similar tipping a chapeau to the time together. You're celebrating the information it was almighty and made you consciousness something, alternatively than 'this didn't enactment out, and that's bad.' And if you tally into that person, possibly it's awkward, possibly you person to get drunk … but you shared something."

Harry likes snowboarding.

"They've been having fun," a root told E! News successful January 2014 aft Harry and Kendall Jenner were spotted successful Mammoth Lakes together. "We're friends. He's cool," added Kendall astatine the 2013 American Music Awards that November.

Harry besides likes swimming. 

Such was the commencement of a years-long are-they-or-aren't-they relationship that has taken Styles and Jenner everyplace from Southern California to Anguilla and St. Barts.

Not naming names but noting a much caller narration than Taylor that could person been Kendall, Harry told Rolling Stone in 2017, "She's a immense portion of the album. Sometimes you privation to extremity the hat, and sometimes you conscionable privation to springiness them the full cap...and anticipation they cognize it's conscionable for them."

No, immoderate photos you mightiness person seen implicit the years successful which Harry and Louis—or "Larry," arsenic immoderate took to calling them—appeared to beryllium kissing were fake. 

"That is Photoshopped," Styles explained connected Australia's Sunrise, looking astatine a representation successful an existent mag successful which helium and Tomlinson were puckering up toward each other. "There was a woman successful there."

"They've really done this to maine and Niall arsenic well," Louis added. "When somebody's successful the middle, they conscionable instrumentality the idiosyncratic retired from the middle. It's precise clever, actually."

In 2014, it was Harry who suggested portion they were successful the workplace successful London (very Beatles-esque) that One Direction mightiness privation to instrumentality a break.

"I didn't privation to exhaust our instrumentality base," he told Rolling Stone. "If you're shortsighted, you tin think, 'Let's conscionable support touring,' but we each thought excessively overmuch of the radical than to fto that happen. You recognize you're exhausted and you don't privation to drain people's content successful you."

His mates agreed, and past Zayn, who had been struggling with anxiousness and having issues with fiancée Perrie Edwards (in that tabloids were reporting that helium was cheating connected her) got a leap connected the break successful March 2015 and near the group.

The remainder of One Direction soldiered on, preparing their devoted fans for the inevitable with an announcement successful August astir their planned hiatus. Their last performance was connected Oct. 31, 2015, a scary nighttime so for the 1D faithful, astatine Britain's Sheffield Arena.

In effect to Zayn Malik calling One Direction's euphony uncool—or astatine slightest thing helium would play connected a day if helium was trying to impressment a miss implicit dinner—Harry stayed diplomatic.

"I deliberation it's a shame helium felt that way, but I ne'er privation thing but luck to anyone doing what they love," Styles told Rolling Stone. 

"If you're not enjoying thing and request to bash thing else, you perfectly should bash that. I'm gladsome he's doing what helium likes, and bully luck to him."

"I didn't privation to constitute 'stories,' " helium explained to RS astir his 10-song debut solo album, fittingly titled Harry Styles. "I wanted to write my stories, things that happened to me. The number-one happening was I wanted to beryllium honest. I hadn't done that before." 

That being said, the crippled was on when it came to figuring retired what, oregon who, helium was singing about.

"I similar to abstracted my idiosyncratic beingness and work," Harry said. "It helps, I think, for maine to compartmentalize. It's not astir trying to marque my vocation longer, similar I'm trying to beryllium this 'mysterious character,' due to the fact that I'm not. When I spell home, I consciousness similar the aforesaid idiosyncratic I was astatine school. You can't expect to support that if you amusement everything. There's the enactment and the idiosyncratic stuff, and going betwixt the 2 is my favourite s--t. It's astonishing to me."

Harry Styles' hair, astatine immoderate length, has agelong been 1 of his astir fetching carnal attributes. In 2017, British Vogue dissected a photograph taken of Harry's dressing array earlier helium went onstage successful Paris 1 nighttime and counted seven hair products, positive a vessel of Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, a Diptyque candle and Sunday Riley look oil.

"I find it rather amusing that Harry has the authorities of a precise brand-savvy quality editor—props to him for the Ouai hairsbreadth products (which I love) and the Sunday Riley lipid successful particular," Vogue beauty exertion Lisa Niven noted. "And who wouldn't enactment a Diptyque candle connected their rider?"

Before helium returned to the spotlight to commencement promoting his solo music, lone a fewer cardinal radical noticed that helium had chopped his hair.

"I felt precise bare for a while," helium admitted to Vogue. "I was similar yeah, I've gotta shave my hairsbreadth off. It wasn't a hard decision, it got made into a wig."

While Harry rocked choky pants and a rumpled T-shirt similar nary different portion portion of One Direction, he's been sporting fiercely tailored suits, oregon astatine slightest slacks and a dashing jacket, ever since, and has starred successful 2 Gucci campaigns.

"I deliberation some euphony and fashion, main power was probably Shania Twain," Styles told Entertainment Tonight. "Yeah, I deliberation she's amazing."

Wait, what? 

Well, ma Anne did play a batch of Shania, on with Norah Jones and Savage Garden, successful the '90s, portion dada Des was home-schooling his lad successful stone 'n' roll.

Simultaneously juggling his philharmonic ambitions, Harry made his diagnostic movie debut successful Christopher Nolan's sweeping World War II enactment drama Dunkirk, which came retired successful July 2017 and went connected to beryllium nominated for 8 Oscars, winning three.

Asked who it was harder to audition for, Nolan oregon Simon Cowell, Styles said connected ITV's This Morning that it was astir apt Nolan, "in that helium doesn't accidental anything. Like astatine all. He conscionable sits successful the acheronian successful the backmost of the room... It's truthful aggravated due to the fact that you bash the audition and spell location and obsess implicit whether radical liked you oregon not."

At slightest helium could remainder assured that Nolan wasn't giving him peculiar treatment.

"I don't deliberation I was that alert truly of however celebrated Harry was," the manager told the Associated Press. "I mean, my girl had talked astir him. My kids talked astir him, but I wasn't truly that alert of it. So the information is, I formed Harry due to the fact that helium acceptable the portion wonderfully and genuinely earned a spot astatine the table."

Styles admitted that walking onto the acceptable of a big-budget warfare epic was a spot intimidating astatine first.

"The archetypal astonishing happening was the standard of the production," helium told The Big Issue. You locomotion onset the archetypal time and get taken aback by everything." And for his archetypal film, helium had to fig retired however to support his caput supra water—literally.

In 1 of galore harrowing scenes, Styles' character, British Army worker Alex, astir drowns. "While you're down determination filming and acting retired the scene, you're besides thinking, 'I cannot respire for overmuch longer than this' which evidently helps the situation," Harry recalled to USA Today. The time earlier helium arrived successful France to commencement shooting, "they were asking if I could swim. And it was a batch of swimming. It was much like, 'If we marque you aquatics forever, volition you drown?'"

And...he's funny, too. 

While ubiquitous successful 2017 promoting his music, Harry besides convincingly filled successful for James Corden arsenic big of The Late, Late Show (he adjacent pulled disconnected the American governmental humor), and did the occupation again successful 2019. Coincidentally, backmost successful England immoderate years ago, portion house-hunting successful Hampstead Heath, Harry spent almost 2 years staying astatine the location of Late, Late Show enforcement shaper Ben Winston and his wife, Meredith. He slept connected a mattress successful the attic. 

He was distant a lot, being a large popular star, but still.

Styles told RS that helium was excessively acrophobic of Meredith to bring anyone home, but Winston insisted, "He wasn't ever alone, but it was breathtaking seeing the array of A-listers that would travel up and slumber successful the attic. Or he'd travel and lounge with us. We'd ne'er sermon business. He would enactment arsenic if helium hadn't travel backmost from playing to 80,000 radical 3 nights successful a enactment successful Rio de Janeiro."

Also successful 2017, Styles played Mick Jagger (because, obviously) on Saturday Night Live when helium was the musical guest when Jimmy Fallon hosted, and past successful July 2018 connected The Tonight Show he told Jimmy helium wouldn't caput hosting that show, too. His privation was Jimmy's command, arsenic Fallon promptly keeled implicit and Harry sat down comfortably down the desk.

Styles returned to SNL arsenic big and philharmonic impermanent successful 2019 and crushed it.