Paul Bettany

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Paul Bettany at 2014 San Diego Comic-Con

Paul Thane Bettany (born May 27, 1971 in Harlesden , London ) is a British actor .

Life

Bettany was born the son of the theater teacher and actor Thane Bettany and the school secretary Anne Kettler. He has an older sister, Sarah, and a younger brother, Matthew, who died in a fall when he was eight. He moved to London and made a living as a street musician.

At the age of 19 he began his studies at the Drama Center London in Chalk Farm. He made his stage debut in Stephen Daldry 's acclaimed West End - revival of An Inspector Calls at the Aldwych Theater, where he played Eric Birling. He also played in productions by Richard III. , Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar (for which he received a Charles Award nomination) of the Royal Shakespeare Company .

After a brief appearance in the finale of the Sean Bean series The Snipers as "HRH The Prince of Orange" at the Battle of Waterloo , he made his film debut with a small part in Bent , a Holocaust drama in which Clive Owen , a Jew, was also included Law and Ian McKellen played along. He continued to work on stage and television and established himself as an actor with a wide variety of roles, for example in Joe Penhall's Love and Understanding , which was played at London's Flatbush Theater and then ran in Connecticut . Roles in the television productions Killer Net and Heimkehr soon followed. He gave his last theatrical performance in One More Wasted Year and Stranger's House at the Royal Court Theater .

For his first lead role in Gangster No. 1 he was nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards and the London Critics' Circle nominated him for British Newcomer of the Year.

Bettany got to know the director Brian Helgeland and was seen in his first Hollywood production in Knight from Passion . He won the London Critics' Circle Film Award for Best British Supporting Actor for his role in Knights of the Passion . After the film was released, Helgeland recommended Bettany to other directors, including Ron Howard , who promptly cast Bettany in A Beautiful Mind . It was on this set that he became friends with Russell Crowe and met his future wife, Jennifer Connelly .

After A Beautiful Mind , Bettany was offered the role of the brutal serial killer "The Tooth Fairy" in Red Dragon alongside Edward Norton and Anthony Hopkins . He turned down the role to play with Stellan Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman in Dogville , a film by director Lars von Trier . Another joint film with Russell Crowe was Peter Weir's Master & Commander - Until the End of the World . Bettany's silent portrayal of surgeon and naturalist Stephen Maturin earned him a BAFTA nomination, British Actor of the Year ( London Critics Circle ) and Best Actor ( Evening Standard ) awards. On June 28, 2004, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Dogville and The Reckoning were shown only in a limited number of theaters in 2004. In September of that year Bettany made his leading actor debut in Wimbledon , a romantic comedy starring Kirsten Dunst . In the spring of 2005, he went to Vancouver to film Firewall , a Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen thriller directed by Richard Loncraine , with whom he had previously worked at Wimbledon .

In the fall of 2005, Bettany starred in The Da Vinci Code , which is based on Dan Brown's bestseller and starred Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou . In the film he plays the monk Silas from Opus Dei .

Bettany at the Toronto International Film Festival (2009)

In Inkheart (2008), the film adaptation of Cornelia Funke 's novel of the same name , Bettany can be seen as the fire eater "Dustfinger". As the latter's wife, Bettany's actual wife, Jennifer Connelly, also had a cameo . In 2009 Bettany starred in Young Victoria , South Solitary and in the role of Charles Darwin in the film Creation , which premiered in September 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Paul Bettany presents his film Margin Call at the Berlinale 2011

In 2010, Bettany played the agent Acheson in The Tourist on the side of Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp . In 2011, he starred in Margin Call alongside Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons in the role of banker Will Emerson. In 2014 he played the researcher Max Waters again in Transcendence alongside Johnny Depp. 2015 saw Bettany in Avengers: Age of Ultron in the role of the android Vision . In 2016 he also played Vision in The First Avenger: Civil War and in 2018 in Avengers: Infinity War . In 2017, Bettany took on the eponymous role of American mathematician and bomber Theodore Kaczynski in the Netflix miniseries Manhunt: Unabomber .

Private life

On New Years Day 2003, Paul Bettany married actress Jennifer Connelly . Their son was born on August 5, 2003 and they moved to Brooklyn . Their daughter was born on May 31, 2011.

Voice actor

Paul Bettany has so far been dubbed by several dubbing actors, but mostly by Nicolas Böll ( A Beautiful Mind - Genie und Wahnsinn , Wimbledon , Firewall , Inkheart , The Beekeeper , The Great Crash ). Other line-ups were Philipp Moog ( Knights from Passion ), Viktor Neumann ( Master & Commander - Until the End of the World ), Axel Malzacher ( The Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code ) and Tommy Morgenstern (Mortdecai - Der Teilzeitgauner). He is voiced by Frank Schaff in Marvel Studios films .

Filmography

Awards and nominations

year price Movie result
2000 British Independent Film Award for Best Actor Gangster No. 1 nomination
2000 London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best British Newcomer of the Year Gangster No. 1 nomination
2001 London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Knight out of passion Won
2001 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Newcomer Knight out of passion nomination
2001 London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor A Beautiful Mind - genius and madness nomination
2001 SAG Award best ensemble A Beautiful Mind - genius and madness nomination
2003 Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor Master & Commander - Until the End of the World and The Heart of Me Won
2003 London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year Master & Commander - To the end of the world Won
2003 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor Master & Commander - To the end of the world nomination
2003 BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor Master & Commander - To the end of the world nomination
2004 Empire Award for Best British Actor Wimbledon - game, set and ... love nomination
2004 Jordan Award for Best Actor Wimbledon - game, set and ... love Won
2006 Glamor Awards Man of the Year Won
2008 Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble The beekeeper nomination
2016 Saturn Award for best supporting actor Avengers: Age of Ultron nomination

Web links

Commons : Paul Bettany  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://marvel.com/news/movies/24586/marvel_studios_begins_production_on_marvels_captain_america_civil_war
  2. ↑ Pregnant Stars: Twice as Beautiful. Gala , accessed July 22, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Bettany, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bettany, Paul Thane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Harlesden , London , UK