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.
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Paapa Essiedu
British actor
United Kingdom · b. 1990
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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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