Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Essiedu

Born: June 11, 1990
in Southwark, London, England, UK
Paapa Essiedu (born 11 June 1990) is a British actor. He 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.

Movies for Paapa Essiedu...

The Outrun
Title: The Outrun
Character: Daynin
Released: September 27, 2024
Type: Movie
Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.
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Genie
Title: Genie
Character: Bernard Bottle
Released: November 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling around him.
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The Effect
Title: The Effect
Character: Tristan
Released: August 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors.
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Title: The Lazarus Project
Character: George Addo
Released: June 16, 2022
Type: TV
George wakes up to find himself several months in the past before being recruited for the Lazarus Project – a secret organization that turns back time when the world is at threat of extinction.
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Men
Title: Men
Character: James
Released: May 20, 2022
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.
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Title: Anne Boleyn
Character: George Boleyn
Released: June 1, 2021
Type: TV
The final months of Boleyn's life, her struggle with Tudor England's patriarchal society, her desire to secure a future for her daughter, Elizabeth, and the brutal reality of her failure to provide Henry with a male heir.
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Femme
Title: Femme
Character: Jordan
Released: March 16, 2021
Type: Movie
When Jordan gets into the car of a flirtatious drug-dealer, his night takes a dangerous turn.
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The Exit Plan
Title: The Exit Plan
Character: Zeke
Released: January 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Martha is a widow living out in the remote English countryside. She's also living at a time when overpopulation has strained the world's limited resources, and global governments regularly cull people over 80 who aren't living with family or other caretakers as part of an initiative called "The Exit Plan."
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Title: I May Destroy You
Character: Kwame Acheamong
Released: June 7, 2020
Type: TV
Set in London, where gratification is only an app away, the story centers on Arabella, a carefree, self-assured Londoner with a group of great friends, a boyfriend in Italy, and a burgeoning writing career. But when her drink is spiked, she must question and rebuild every element of her life.
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Title: Gangs of London
Character: Alexander Dumani
Released: April 23, 2020
Type: TV
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
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Stand Still
Title: Stand Still
Character: David
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: Movie
The darkness of postnatal depression threatens to overwhelm Susannah, but a chance encounter with Rupa might be the help she needs.
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Title: The Capture
Character: Isaac Turner MP
Released: September 3, 2019
Type: TV
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
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Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70
Title: Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70
Character: Narrator
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Black Earth Rising
Character: Jaalen
Released: September 10, 2018
Type: TV
As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.
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Title: Press
Character: Ed Washburn
Released: September 6, 2018
Type: TV
The lives of the editors and journalists working at a left-leaning broadsheet and a populist tabloid.
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Title: Kiri
Character: Nate Akindele
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: TV
A drama dealing with the abduction and murder of a young black girl, soon to be adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame, guilt and notoriety which follow.
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Title: The Miniaturist
Character: Otto
Released: December 26, 2017
Type: TV
A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems. Based on the adaptation by Jessie Burton.
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The Miniaturist
Title: The Miniaturist
Character: Otto
Released: December 26, 2017
Type: Movie
A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
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Canned
Title: Canned
Character: Charlie
Released: April 16, 2017
Type: Movie
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?
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Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear
Title: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear
Character: Edmund
Released: October 12, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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RSC Live: Hamlet
Title: RSC Live: Hamlet
Character: Hamlet
Released: June 10, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Demetrius
Released: May 30, 2016
Type: Movie
At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Title: Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Character: Hamlet
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
Title: National Theatre Live: King Lear
Character: The Duke of Burgundy
Released: May 1, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Utopia
Character: Roy
Released: January 15, 2013
Type: TV
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Gaap
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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The Effect
Title: The Effect
Character: Tristan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors.
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Sweet Dreams
Title: Sweet Dreams
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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The Scurry
Title: The Scurry
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Two pest controllers are called to an eco-café in a country park to investigate what begins as a routine vermin problem but as nightfall approaches an avalanche of deranged squirrels descend, wreaking revenge and mayhem on the staff and visitors in the park. With many fatalities, the survivors take shelter in the café as a freak storm takes out the power and communications leaving them isolated and under attack. An eclectic mix of survivors include pest controllers, a sulky teenager, hypocritical vegans, and a drug dealer – there is only an outside chance of survival