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Paapa Kwaakye Essiedu (/ ˈ p ɑː p ə ˌ ɛ s i ˈ eɪ d uː /) (born 1990) is a British actor. He started his career in 2012 when he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company acting in numerous production including The Merry Wives of Windsor (2012), King Lear (2014), Hamlet (2016), and Romeo and Juliet (2016).
Paapa Essiedu was born on 11 June 1990 in Walthamstow, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for I May Destroy You (2020), The Outrun (2024) and Men (2022).
Nov 9, 2023 · Essiedu picked up Emmy and BAFTA nominations for his haunting portrayal of Kwame, a fitness instructor who is raped by a stranger he meets on Grindr.
Jul 15, 2020 · There’s a quiet ease to the way Paapa Essiedu plays Kwame in I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel ’s staggering BBC series about sexual assault and consent. Kwame spends most of his time...
May 20, 2022 · Paapa Essiedu, who stars in Alex Garland's 'Men,' says the superhero he'd love to play is Bernard from British kids drama 'Bernard's Watch.'.
Jul 20, 2020 · How Paapa Essiedu Crafted the Most Gut-Wrenching Performance of I May Destroy You. Essiedu's character Kwame captures the haunting nature of sexual assault with piercing clarity. Here’s how he prepared for the role. By Michael Cuby. July 20, 2020. Courtesy of HBO.
Aug 25, 2020 · Paapa Essiedu’s role as Kwame is particularly crucial—after episode four, when Kwame is raped in a Grindr meetup gone wrong, it becomes clear that his plotline will parallel and in illuminating...
Jul 20, 2020 · Paapa Essiedu: ‘Drama school was a confusing place to be black – I played people who murdered my own ancestors’. The ‘I May Destroy You’ star has broken through as Arabella’s gay friend Kwame but...
Feb 20, 2024 · According to Essiedu, his witty disco demon was almost a skinhead punk, the kind whom he described as his co-star Anjana Vasan’s character Nida’s “worst nightmare.”
Jul 18, 2023 · Nobody can take their eyes off Taylor Russell and Paapa Essiedu—or, rather, the alchemy burgeoning between the fledgling co-stars—as they shoot their British Vogue portraits.
