Paul Bettany Born Today

Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany can be referred to as one of the notable actors whose mostly supporting roles have received much praise and as Paul Bettany celebrates his birthday on 27th of May many will surely find in interesting to find out how this actor has achieved recognition. Born into a family which had much to do with performing arts it definitely comes as now wonder that he had chosen acting as a career path since from his childhood itself he had been exposed to filed of acting. His mother had been a theaters singer and teacher while his father had been an drama teacher with talents in acting and dancing. However it was in his late teen years that he had decided to take acting career as a profession.
At the age of 19 Paul Bettany had enrolled at Drama Center London in Chalk Farm where he had learned both theoretical and practical side of acting. After showing his budding acting talents through some notable stage productions he landed the role of Bill Sikes in BBC production of Oliver Twist. After taking part in few small screen production he finally had his movie debut through 1997 movie Bent in which he did a small role. Though he had not manged to give any notable performance in any of the following projects everything changed with A Knight’s Tale for which he had gone on to win the London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British supporting actor after gaining many praises for his exceptional acting talents.
One of the notable features in career of Paul Bettany is that he seems to have had many chance of doing supporting roles which sometimes take over the major roles. And as for the recent movies of this fine actor they include Priest on which he had done the main titular role. In addition to that his previous projects include movies such as A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and The Da Vinci Code. Though it seems that actor do not have any ongoing project to get busy with he is in talks to star in some upcoming movies to his fans are encouraged to stay tuned in to know about them.