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Paul Freeman (actor)
Paul Freeman (born 1943, Barnet, England) is an English stage and screen actor, best known as René Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark; also Ivan Ooze, Falcon Crest's Gustav Riebmann, and a Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre stage veteran.
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti (born 1967, New Haven) is an American actor known for American Splendor, Sideways, The Holdovers, John Adams, and Billions; Emmy winner, three Golden Globes, four SAG Awards, two Oscar nominations.
Paul Gilbert (actor)
Paul Gilbert (1918-1976), born Ed McMahon, American film and TV actor, comedian and singer; vaudeville and trapeze background; adoptive father of Melissa and Jonathan Gilbert of Little House on the Prairie.
Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason (1939-2006), American character actor of Trading Places, The Breakfast Club, and Die Hard; trained with Strasberg, died of mesothelioma; distinct from Jackie Gleason and Paul Gleeson.
Paul Gross
Paul Gross (born 1959, Calgary) is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer best known as Constable Benton Fraser in Due South and for writing, directing, and starring in Passchendaele (2008), the highest-grossing Canadian film of 2008 and a Genie winner. Distinguished from other people named Paul Gross.
Paul Guilfoyle
Paul Guilfoyle (born 1949, Boston) is an American character actor, best known as Captain Jim Brass on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2014) and CSI: Vegas (2021), with stage roots at the Theatre Company of Boston and 75+ films including L.A. Confidential and Spotlight. Not related to the 1902-1961 actor of the same name.
Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid (1908–1992), Austrian-American actor and director, born Paul Georg Julius von Hernreid in Trieste; famous as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca and Bette Davis's two-cigarette partner in Now, Voyager; blacklisted in 1947, he became a prolific TV director.
Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan (born 8 October 1939), nicknamed Hoges, is an Australian comedian and actor known as Mick Dundee in Crocodile Dundee (1986), after The Paul Hogan Show and the 'shrimp on the barbie' tourism ads.
Paul Johansson
Paul Joseph Otto Johansson, born 1964, in Spokane, Washington, is a Canadian-American actor, director and writer, known as Dan Scott on One Tree Hill and for directing Atlas Shrugged: Part I.
Paul Kaye
Paul Kaye, English actor and comedian (born 1965, Clapham, London; some sources say 1964), famous as spoof interviewer Dennis Pennis, Mike Strutter, Thoros of Myr in Game of Thrones, and Olivier-nominated Mr Wormwood in Matilda the Musical.
Paul Le Mat
Paul Le Mat, American actor (born Rahway, New Jersey; year disputed, 1945/1946 or 1952), played John Milner in American Graffiti (1973) and Melvin Dummar in Melvin and Howard (1980); two Golden Globe Awards.
Paul Lynde
Paul Edward Lynde (1926–1982), American comedian and actor, Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and the campy regular center square of the original Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981, with Emmy nominations for the show.
Paul Marcarelli
Paul Marcarelli (born 1970) is an American actor and screenwriter best known as the "Test Man" in Verizon Wireless commercials, later becoming a Sprint spokesman in 2016.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann (born 1959), English actor of film, TV, stage and audio; the 'I' of Withnail and I and the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, later 70+ Big Finish audio dramas.
Paul Mercurio
Paul Mercurio (Paul Joseph Mercurio, born 1963) is an Australian dancer, actor, TV presenter, and politician, star of Strictly Ballroom (1992) and since 2022 the Labor member for Hastings in the Victorian Parliament.
Paul Mescal
Paul Mescal (born 1996) is an Irish actor from Maynooth, known for Connell in Normal People, his Oscar-nominated lead in Aftersun, the Olivier-winning Streetcar, Gladiator II, Hamnet, and playing Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes' Beatles films.
Paul Michael Glaser
Paul Michael Glaser (born 1943) is an American actor and director, Detective Dave Starsky on Starsky & Hutch (1975–79), later director of The Running Man and Kazaam, and chairman of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Paul Muni
Paul Muni (Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund, 1895-1967), American actor from the Yiddish theater; Oscar winner for The Story of Louis Pasteur, star of Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Tony winner for Inherit the Wind.
Paul Newman
Paul Newman (1925–2008), American actor and philanthropist, won the Best Actor Oscar for The Color of Money and co-founded Newman's Own in 1982, which has donated over $600 million in profits to charity.
Paul Nicholas
Paul Nicholas (born Paul Oscar Beuselinck, 1944) is an English actor, singer and producer: first West End Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar (1972), Rum Tum Tugger in Cats (1981), UK Top 10 pop hits, and Vince Pinner in the BBC sitcom Just Good Friends (1983–1986).
Paul Ready
Paul Ready (born 1977, Birmingham) is a British actor, LAMDA-trained, known for Lee in Utopia, Kevin Brady in Motherland, Henry Goodsir in The Terror, and Rob MacDonald in Bodyguard; married to Michelle Terry.
Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser, American comedian, actor, and author born in New York (sources differ, 1956 or 1957), co-creator and star of Mad About You, Burke in Aliens, 11 Emmy nominations, later roles in Stranger Things and The Kominsky Method.
Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld, 1952-2023) was an American actor and comedian who created Pee-wee Herman with the Groundlings, starred in Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Pee-wee's Playhouse, and came out as gay in the 2025 documentary Pee-wee as Himself.
Paul Rhys
Paul Rhys (born 1963, Neath, Wales) is a Welsh actor trained at RADA, known for Theo van Gogh in Vincent & Theo, Talleyrand in Napoleon (2023), Duncan in Saltburn, and roles in Victoria, Borgia, and A Discovery of Witches.
Paul Ritter
Paul Ritter, stage name of Simon Paul Adams (1966-2021), English character actor; Martin Goodman in Friday Night Dinner, Anatoly Dyatlov in HBO's Chernobyl, Tony-nominated for The Norman Conquests; died of a brain tumour aged 54.
Paul Rodriguez (actor)
Paul Rodriguez is a Mexican American comedian, actor, and director. He is known for his 1984 sitcom a.k.a. Pablo and his over four decades of bilingual work.
Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd (born 1969, Passaic, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Clueless, Anchorman, Knocked Up, Role Models, and as Marvel's Ant-Man, plus TV roles on Friends, Living with Yourself, and Only Murders in the Building.
Paul Rust
Paul Rust (born 1981, Le Mars, Iowa) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, co-creator and star of Netflix's Love as Gus Cruikshank, lead of I Love You, Beth Cooper, co-writer of Pee-wee's Big Holiday, and frequent Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast guest.
Paul Scheer
Paul Scheer (born 1976, Long Island, NY) is an American comedian, actor, and podcaster known for The League, Black Monday, Human Giant, NTSF:SD:SUV::, and co-hosting How Did This Get Made?; his 2024 memoir became a New York Times bestseller.
Paul Schneider (actor)
Paul Andrew Schneider is an American actor from Asheville, North Carolina, known for All the Real Girls, Bright Star, and playing Mark Brendanawicz on Parks and Recreation.