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Paul Jesson. Paul Jesson is an English stage, television and film actor and an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company . He has played leading roles at the National Theatre and the RSC and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 for his role in The Normal Heart at the Royal Court Theatre. [1]
Paul Jesson. Born. Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Occupation (s) Stage and film actor. Years active. 1971–present. Close. He has played leading roles at the National Theatre and the RSC and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 for his role in The Normal Heart at the Royal Court Theatre.
Apr 8, 2024 · It was a 42-page script. Richard and I first met in 1990 at the RSC in Stratford when the late Roger Michell cast me in Richard's play Two Shakespearean Actors. Roger's assistant director on the production was one Clarissa Brown. It was a season of enduring friendships, actually quite rare in the theatre, and in subsequent years Richard and I ...
Paul Jesson was born on 6 July 1946 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Coriolanus (2011), Marrowbone (2017) and Mr. Turner (2014). He was previously married to Maggie Lunn.
- July 6, 1946
Paul Jesson was born on 6 July 1946 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Coriolanus (2011) , Marrowbone (2017) and Mr. Turner (2014) . He was previously married to Maggie Lunn .
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- July 6, 1946
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The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer . It focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. The play's title comes from W. H. Auden 's poem, "September 1, 1939".
Mr. Turner is a 2014 biographical drama film based on the last 25 years of the life of artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Written and directed by Mike Leigh, the film stars Timothy Spall in the title role, with Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey, Lesley Manville, and Martin Savage. It premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at ...
