Paul Riddell

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PERSONAL STATEMENT

Paul is an experienced featured and supporting artist, with skills in minor speaking roles, as well as extensive stage work in local theatre. He has played an MP in Darkest Hour, a Gotham city senator in The Batman, NYPD chief in Aquaman 2, a Spanish detective in Rise of the Footsoldier: Marbella, a Jacobin in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, friend of the family in Downton Abbey: The New Era, and the father of Olympic rower in George Clooney’s The Boys in the Boat.

Paul has also featured in three series of The Crown (Netflix), The Pursuit of Love (BBC), The Larkins (ITV), Britannia (Sky Atlantic), War of the Worlds (Fox/Epix), Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (Britbox), Litvinenko (ITV), and The Power (Amazon Studios).

Paul is also executive producer of Summit Fever (2022) directed by Julian Gilbey.

BACKGROUND:

Paul has also appeared in a featured roles in Rise of the Footsoldier: The Pat Tate Story (2017) as a prison officer, and Footsoldier: Marbella (2019) as a detective, and as a supporting artist in other films like Beautiful Devils (2016), an MP in Winston Churchill movie Darkest Hour (2017), Stan and Ollie (2019), The Courier (2021), Tim Burton’s Dumbo (2019), Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho (2021), George Clooney’s Midnight Sky (2020), Will Ferrell’s Eurovision (2020), Ben Palmer’s The Festival, Downton Abbey: The New Era (2022) and Apple TV's Slow Horses (2022), along with TV drama including Netflix’s The Crown and roles in two seasons of Sky’s Britannia, Amazon Prime’s Behind Her Eyes, the BBC’s Roadkill and The Pursuit of Love, Fox Television’s War of the Worlds, and ITV’s The Confession and Autopsy, Paul also has regular appearances in soap/dramas Eastenders and Holby City.

In his teens he was an East German guard in John Glen’s Octopussy (1983), and an extra in Peter Hunt’s The Last Days of Pompeii on CBS.

Paul has experience acting on the stage primarily with the Chesil Theatre Company, appearing in leading roles in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, and Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends, Round and Round the Garden and Woman In Mind, Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, Peter Whelan’s The Accrington Pals, Ted Tally’s Terra Nova, and Vaclav Havel’s Audience and Private View.

Paul is also a writer, and his short play The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke was shortlisted in the national playwriting competition 10x10.

Paul studied film at Merton College, attended RADA for RADA in Business programme, is a member of the BFI and an avid filmgoer, and cites film noir, Hitchcock, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Brian DePalma, Quentin Tarantino and Stanley Kubrick amongst his favourite directors.

Paul has an IMBD profile
imdb.me/paulriddell

Paul has a showreel on his most recent work
https://youtu.be/qhQUEF6APLg

Paul presented the launch of the national writing competition TakeTen
https://youtu.be/LPBcO_HnYps
Paul produced a video on his experience of acting in the award-winning short play Underground

https://youtu.be/Mf0zTPS5W4w https://youtu.be/U7QunU8yhxw

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Languages Spoken	English
Accents/Dialects	American - General, English - Cockney, English - England North East (Tyneside, Geordie), English - England South East (Oxford, Sussex), English - General, English - London, English - Southwest England