Paapa Essiedu
Also Known As: Paapa Kwaakye Essiedu
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Southwark, London, England, UK
Birthday: June 11, 1990
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Gender: Male
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Canned
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-16
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The Exit Plan
Overview: 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."
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-23
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The Outrun
Overview: Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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Genie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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National Theatre Live: The Effect
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-09
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Scurry
Overview: Chaos erupts at an eco-café when a horde of deranged squirrels seeks revenge on the staff and visitors, forcing two summoned pest controllers to face the onslaught.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-30
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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RSC Live: Hamlet
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-10
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The Miniaturist
Overview: A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-26
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Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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RSC Live: King Lear
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-12
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Femme
Overview: When Jordan gets into the car of a flirtatious drug-dealer, his night takes a dangerous turn.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-16
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Stand Still
Overview: The darkness of postnatal depression threatens to overwhelm Susannah, but a chance encounter with Rupa might be the help she needs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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Men
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-20
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Murder on the Orient Express
Overview: Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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National Theatre Live: Death of England: Delroy
Overview: Unapologetically upwardly mobile and working as a bailiff, Delroy’s life spirals out of control on one surreal day as he races to get to the hospital where his girlfriend Carly is about to give birth.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-09
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