I find it difficult to sit still.
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Paapa Essiedu
British actor
United Kingdom · b. 1990
Arts and letters
Born in London, Paapa Essiedu, 33, trained at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He joined the RSC, and in 2016 became the first Black actor to play Hamlet for the company and won the Ian Charleson award. He appeared in the 2020 award-winning TV series I May Destroy You, and his other TV work includes Gangs of London, The Capture and The Lazarus Project, now in its second season on Sky Max and Now. He is married to actor and comedian Rosa Robson and lives in London.
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In order to raise money to pay for myself to go to the National Youth Theatre, I performed a medley of my drama school speeches and some songs for my entire school. Considering I can’t sing, this was terrible. I did U Remind Me by Usher and Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T’s. They paid £2 each – basically, to laugh at me.
To find as many moments to laugh as possible.
Called me the N-word.
I was a happy kid. I had quite a small life: I grew up in Walthamstow and didn’t really leave east London. I didn’t go to the South Bank for the first time until I was 18 years old.
I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.
After losing my mum still managing to finish drama school, because that was really difficult. I lost her in the first year.
A really bad habit of eating sweets before I go to sleep.
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