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. He was nominated for a Scottish Critics' Award 2004 for his portrayal of Willy Loman in ''Death of a Salesman'' at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.

He played the Earl of Gloucester in the Donmar Theatre production of ''King Lear'' with Derek Jacobi, Maurice Montgomery in Nicholas Wright's ''Travelling Light'' at the National Theatre and appeared in Caryl Churchill's ''Love and Information'' at the Royal Court (2012).

His recent films include Brutus in ''Coriolanus'' directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, Nae Caranfil's ''Closer to the Moon'' and Sir David Hare's ''Wall''.

He played William Turner, father of J. M. W. Turner in Mike Leigh's 2014 film ''Mr. Turner''. He returned to the RSC to play Cardinal Wolsey in ''Wolf Hall'' and ''Bring Up the Bodies'' at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Aldwych Theatre, London and the Winter Garden Theater on Broadway for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. He played Menenius in the RSC's 2017 production of ''Coriolanus'', Fritz Busch in David Hare's ''The Moderate Soprano'' at The Duke of Yorks and Niels Bohr in Michael Frayn's ''Copenhagen'' at Chichester Festival Theatre 2018.

Recent television includes ''The Trials of Jimmy Rose'', ''Chewing Gum'', ''Endeavour'', ''The Trial of Christine Keeler'', and ''The Crown''.

He is a visiting tutor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Provided by Wikipedia