Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Essiedu

Рождение : 1990-06-11, Southwark, London, England

История

Born in 1990, Essiedu grew up in East London with his mother, who was a fashion and design teacher. His family comes from Ghana, where he has a half brother and sister. He won a scholarship to The Forest School, Walthamstow and his ambition as he grew older was to become a doctor. Essiedu became more involved with Shakespeare when he was accepted into the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Perhaps Essiedu's most famous Shakespeare role was for the lead character in Royal Shakespeare Company's Hamlet in 2016.

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Paapa Essiedu
Paapa Essiedu

Фильмы

Род мужской
James
После смерти мужа Харпер отправляется из Лондона в сельскую местность, надеясь расслабиться на природе и прийти в себя. Во время прогулки по лесу она набредает на загадочный тоннель, где пробуждает кого-то или что-то, что начинает её преследовать.
Femme
Jordan
When Jordan gets into the car of a flirtatious drug-dealer, his night takes a dangerous turn.
The Exit Plan
Zeke
Stand Still
David
The darkness of postnatal depression threatens to overwhelm Susannah, but a chance encounter with Rupa might be the help she needs.
Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70
Narrator
A special documentary to mark the seventieth birthday of HRH the Prince of Wales. For this observational documentary, film-maker John Bridcut has had exclusive access to the prince over the past 12 months, both at work and behind the scenes, at home and abroad. He speaks to those who know him best, including HRH the Duchess of Cornwall and the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex. His sons discuss their upbringing and their feelings about the prince's working life.
The Miniaturist
Otto
A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Canned
Charlie
A dark comedy. Three school friends each suffering from a 'quarter-life-crisis' are thrown back together again following a tragedy. Can their friendship re-blossom and in doing so help each of them figure out this life business?
Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear
Edmund
King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. Misjudging his children’s loyalty and finding himself alone in the wilderness, he is left to confront the mistakes of a life that has brought him to this point. Antony Sher plays King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare in this, one of Shakespeare’s most epic and powerful plays.
RSC Live: Hamlet
Hamlet
Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Hamlet played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until throughout summer 2016.
Сон в летнюю ночь
Demetrius
Классическая пьеса Шекспира, адаптированная для телевидения Рассела Т Дэвиса. В тираническом суде Афин безжалостный диктатор Тейус планирует свою свадьбу к Ипполите, военнопленному, а молодая Гермия приговорена к смерти ее собственным отцом. Между тем, в нижеприведенном городе, любительская театральная группа «Механики» репетирует со всеми их комическими соперничествоми. А за Афинами, в диких лесах, темные силы мешают ...
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
National Theatre Live: King Lear
The Duke of Burgundy
An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.
The Outrun
When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up.
Curtain Call
The film, set in 1930s London, revolves around a feared theater critic named Jimmy Erskine, his loyal assistant, a newspaper owner who wants to get rid of the critic and an actress who has been devastated by the excoriating theatrical reviews. The critic's determination to survive ensures that the other characters are caught in a web of blackmail, deceit and murder. Adapted from Anthony Quinn's novel.
Sweet Dreams
Billy
In the forgotten English seaside town of Claypole, a series of serendipitous and unfortunate coincidences conspire to bring the lives and overreaching ambitions of a few misguided dreamers and petty criminals to a nasty end.