Paul Blackthorne

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Paul Blackthorne

Paul Blackthorne (born March 5, 1969 in Wellington , Shropshire ) is a British actor in film, television and radio.

Life

Blackthorne spent his early childhood at various military bases in England and Germany. He made his first acting experience as a teenager in performances at the National Youth Music Theater . There he worked in the production The Leaving of Liverpool , which was shown at the Edinburgh Festival and in London's West End . He later appeared in The Ragged Child and made a guest appearance with this production at the Bergen International Festival. In the mid-1990s he starred at the Nottingham Playhouse in the play Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams .

Blackthorne then initially starred in some television commercials . He also worked as a spokesman for radio advertising . Blackthorne played the character of Captain Russell in the Indian film Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India , nominated for the Oscar for “Best Foreign Language Film” . He studied Hindi for six months for the role .

In the German-speaking media landscape, he gained attention through the series Lipstick Jungle . There he plays the husband of Wendy Healy ( Brooke Shields ). In 2004 he played the role of Stephen Saunders in series 24 . In 2007/2008 he played the leading role of the magician Harry Dresden in the crime and fantasy series The Dresden Files . In addition to CSI: Miami and Monk, he appeared in many other television series. From 2012 to 2018 Blackthorne played the role of Quentin Lance in the Arrow series . In the computer game Star Wars: Battlefront II , he gave the character Gideon Hask his voice.

In addition to his work as an actor, Blackthorne also works as a photographer. His exhibition Delhi to Manhattan was shown from April to June 2009 at the Tibet House in New York City .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Paul Blackthorne  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Blackthorne as Shane Healy . Biography at Lipstick Jungle
  2. Paul Blackthorne: Summary BIOGRAPHY at www.tv.com (accessed April 3, 2010)
  3. Paul Blackthorne ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Biography at Poptower @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.poptower.com