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Encyclopedia > Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany (born May 27, 1971) is an English actor most famous for his roles as Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale, Charles in A Beautiful Mind, Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Peter Colt in Wimbledon and as Silas in The Da Vinci Code. He is soon to play Dustfinger in New Line's production Inkheart, which will be released in 2007. This film is in the production process at the moment. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A Knights Tale (2001) is a film written and directed by Brian Helgeland which is very loosely based on The Knights Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. ... A Beautiful Mind is a Academy Award-winning film inspired by the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. ... The Aubrey–Maturin series, also known as the Aubreyad, is a sequence of 20 historical novels by Patrick OBrian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ships surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also a... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ... Wimbledon is a film released in September 2004. ... Paul Bettany as Silas. ... This article is about the film. ... Dustfinger, also known as the fire-dancer, is a character in Cornelia Funkes Inkheart and Inkspell. ... In computing, a newline is a special character or sequence of characters indicating the end of a line. ... Inkheart (original title: Tintenherz) is a young adult-child fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke about a girl named Meggie whose life changes dramatically when she realizes that her father, a bookbinder named Mortimer (Nicknamed Mo), has an unusual ability: when he reads aloud, he can bring characters from books into...

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Biography

Early life

Bettany was born in Harlesden, London, to Thane Bettany, a drama teacher and actor, and Anne Kettle, a school secretary. He has an older sister, Sarah, and a younger brother, Matthew, who died after a fall when he was only eight years old. Matthew's death left the family grief-stricken. Soon after, Bettany left home and went to live on his own in London. He lived in a small flat and earned money by playing his guitar in the streets, busker style. After two years, he found a new job in a home for the elderly. Harlesden is a district in the London Borough of Brent. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Thane Bettany is an English actor. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. ...


Career

When Bettany was nineteen, he decided to be an actor, and he pursued that career with determination, studying at the London Drama Centre in Chalk Farm. He made his stage debut in Stephen Daldry's acclaimed West End revival of An Inspector Calls at the Aldwych Theatre, playing the part of Eric Birling. He also appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar (for which he received a Charleson Award nomination). This article should belong in one or more categories. ... Chalk Farm is the name of a place in the London Borough of Camden. ... Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born May 2, 1961 in Dorset, England, United Kingdom) is a British movie director and producer. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... An Inspector Calls is a play written in one week of 1945 by the British dramatist; J. B. Priestley. ... Aldwych Theatre The Aldwych Theatre is a theatre on Aldwych in the West End of London. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ... Frontispage of the First Quarto Richard The Third. ... Title page of the Second Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (published 1599) For other meanings see Romeo (disambiguation) and Juliet (disambiguation). ... The Tragedy of Julius Cæsar, more commonly known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written in 1599. ...


After a sterling appearance in the finale of Sean Bean's series Sharpe as HRH The Prince of Orange at the Battle of Waterloo, he made his film debut with a small part in Bent, a Holocaust drama which also featured Clive Owen, Jude Law, and Ian McKellen. He continued doing work in stage and television, establishing himself as a gifted actor with wide range. There was Joe Penhall's Love and Understanding, which played at London's Flatbush Theatre and then ran in Connecticut. His roles in the television productions Killer Net and Coming Home – during which he met and dated Emily Mortimer – soon followed. He did his last theatre work in One More Wasted Year and Stranger's House at the Royal Court Theatre. Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English film and stage actor. ... Sharpe is a series of TV movies based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell featuring the character of Richard Sharpe focusing on his adventures in the Napoleonic Wars. ... William II, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (William Frederick George Louis) (December 6, 1792 – March 17, 1849) ruled from October 7, 1840 until his death. ... Combatants France Seventh Coalition: United Kingdom Prussia United Netherlands Hanover Nassau Brunswick Commanders Napoleon Bonaparte Michel Ney Duke of Wellington Gebhard von Blücher Strength 73,000 67,000 Coalition 60,000 Prussian (48,000 engaged by about 18:00) Casualties 25,000 dead or wounded; 7,000 Captured; 15... Poster for the Royal National Theatre production of Bent Bent is a 1979 play (which starred Ian McKellen in its original West-End production, Richard Gere in its original Broadway production) by Martin Sherman that was adapted into a 1997 movie by director Sean Mathias. ... ... Clive Owen (born October 3, 1964) is a Golden Globe and BAFTA winning critically acclaimed English actor, now a regular performer in Hollywood and independent American films. ... David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an Academy Award nominated English actor. ... Sir Ian Murray McKellen CBE, (born May 25, 1939) is a veteran English stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ... Joe Penhall is a writer. ... Love and Understanding is the first U.S. and second European single release from American singer/actress Chers twenty-ninth album Love Hurts. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... Emily Mortimer in The 51st State Emily Mortimer (born 1 December 1971 in London, England) is a British actress. ... The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre in Sloane Square, in the Chelsea area of London noted for its contributions to modern theatre. ...


Bettany had become addicted to cocaine along the way. His drug problem reached its height during the filming of the miniseries David Copperfield, during which he destroyed a posh hotel room and caused a disturbance on a plane. The director even had to film some of his scenes in slow motion. But Bettany had reached a turning point, and immediately started to turn his back on drugs. Cocaine (see also: crack) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... Summary David Copperfield 2000 was a joint US/Irish TV film adaptation of Charles Dickenss novel David Copperfield. ...


He filmed several more movies, including his first leading role in Gangster No. 1. The British Independent Film Awards nominated him for Best Actor, and the London Critics Circle nominated him for British Newcomer of the Year. Gangster No. ... The British Independent Film Awards were created in 1998 to celebrate achievement in independently funded British movies. ... The London Film Critics Circle is a department of The Critics Circle, started in 1913 as an association for working British critics. ...


Back in Hollywood, Oscar-winning writer/director Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential) was planning a new film called The Sin Eater (also known as The Order). He was impressed by Bettany's audition tape, though Bettany eventually decided to film A Knight's Tale instead. The studio executives were not impressed, but Helgeland was determined to cast him, even writing the part of Chaucer for him. A Knight's Tale would be Bettany's first big Hollywood production, and most American audiences would have their first look at Paul Bettany when he walked onscreen muddy and naked. "My buttocks entered the American market before I did," Paul joked on the movie's DVD commentary track. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Brian Helgeland (born January 17, 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a movie writer and director, who graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. ... L.A. Confidential is a crime novel by James Ellroy published in 1990 that was adapted into a 1997 feature film. ... This article is about the 2003 film starring Heath Ledger. ... A Knights Tale (2001) is a film written and directed by Brian Helgeland which is very loosely based on The Knights Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. ... Chaucer: Illustration from Cassells History of England, circa 1902 Chanticleer the rooster from an outdoor production of Chanticleer and the Fox at Ashby_de_la_Zouch castle Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. ...


Critical acclaim poured in after A Knight's Tale, for which he won the London Critics Circle Award for British Supporting Actor. After the movie wrapped, Helgeland, determined that Hollywood should recognize Bettany's talent, showed the audition tape to many of his peers, including Ron Howard, who promptly cast Bettany in A Beautiful Mind. It was on that set that Bettany would befriend Russell Crowe and meet his future wife, Jennifer Connelly. Both were already in relationships, so they kept themselves only to friendship for about a year. Finally both single, they began dating. The London Film Critics Circle is a department of The Critics Circle, started in 1913 as an association for working British critics. ... For other people named Ron Howard, see Ronald Howard. ... A Beautiful Mind is a Academy Award-winning film inspired by the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. ... Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning New Zealand-Australian[1] film actor. ... Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former child model. ...


After A Beautiful Mind, Bettany was offered the role of the brutal serial killer "The Tooth Fairy" in Red Dragon, opposite Edward Norton and Anthony Hopkins. To the great displeasure of his managers, he turned down the role in favor of accepting a part with Stellan Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman in controversial director Lars Von Trier's Dogville. Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... Red Dragon is a 2002 thriller film, based on the novel written by Thomas Harris featuring the brilliant psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. ... Edward H. Norton[1] (born August 18, 1969) is a critically acclaimed two-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American film actor and director. ... Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Welsh film, stage and television actor. ... Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd (help· info) (born June 13, 1951, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish actor. ... Nicole Mary Kidman AC born June 20, 1967, is an Academy Award-winning Australian[1] actress. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd and James Caan, among others. ...


Bettany's next major project would make his talent undoubtable: he teamed up again with Russell Crowe to film Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. His quiet, powerful portrayal of surgeon and naturalist Stephen Maturin brought in even more critical acclaim, including a BAFTA nomination, British Actor of the Year (London Critics Circle), and Best Actor (Evening Standard). On June 28, 2004, Bettany and thirteen other actors were included in the 2004 invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning New Zealand-Australian[1] film actor. ... Peter Lindsay Weir (born August 21, 1944) is an Australian film director. ... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ... The Aubrey–Maturin series, also known as the Aubreyad, is a sequence of 20 historical novels by Patrick OBrian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ships surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also a... BAFTA Award The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... The London Film Critics Circle is a department of The Critics Circle, started in 1913 as an association for working British critics. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ... June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Founded on May 11, 1927 in California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. ...


Dogville and The Reckoning were released in limited cinemas in 2004. In September of that year, Bettany made his leading-man debut in Wimbledon, a romantic comedy with Kirsten Dunst, proving for anyone who might still have doubts that he could carry a movie. Reviews for the movie were somewhat lukewarm, but every critic had praise for Bettany's performance. Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård and James Caan, among others. ... The Reckoning is a murder-mystery set during the medieval period. ... Wimbledon is a film released in September 2004. ... Kirsten[1] Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is a Golden Globe nominated American actress, best known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film series. ...


In spring 2005, Bettany went to Vancouver to film Firewall, a thriller starring Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen, directed by Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon). Firewall is a 2006 American action/thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. ... Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. ... Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress. ... Richard Loncraine Richard Loncraine is a director of movies and TV. He also invented the chrome version of the popular desk item Newtons cradle. ... Wimbledon is a film released in September 2004. ...


He spent the autumn of 2005 filming The Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown's bestselling novel and starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou. In the film he plays an Opus Dei monk called Silas. Ironically however, he was recently quoted in the Sun “I was brought up a Catholic. I’m lapsed. From the age of three I was with nuns. Now I’m an atheist.” This article is about the film. ... Dan Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, best known for the controversial 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. ... Thomas Tom Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, Emmy winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer who starred in family-friendly and screwball comedies before achieving notable success as a dramatic actor in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. ... Audrey Tautou (IPA: ; born August 9, 1978) is a French film actress, best known to worldwide audiences as the title character in the award-winning French film Amélie (2001, Le Fabuleux Destin dAmélie Poulain) and as Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code (2006). ... Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, is an organization of the Catholic Church that emphasizes the Catholic belief that everyone is called to become a saint and that ordinary life is a path to... This article is about a British tabloid. ... The 18th-century French author Baron dHolbach was one of the first self-described atheists. ...


In 2004 and 2005, there were rumours about Bettany and Connelly teaming up to film Brideshead Revisited, but nothing seems to have come of that project. Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ...


Bettany was rumored to be in the running for the role of the Joker in the next Batman movie, contending for it against numerous other high-profile actors, such as Crispin Glover, Adrien Brody, Johnny Depp, Lachy Hulme, and others; however, it has been confirmed by studio sources that Heath Ledger has won the coveted role. Another rumor attaches Bettany to the part of Lord Asriel in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, however, it has now been confirmed the role went to Daniel Craig. The tense of this article is unsuitable for an encyclopedia. ... The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman. ... Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is a multifaceted American artist. ... Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor known for his performances in the films Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Chocolat (2000), Finding Neverland (2004), Charlie and the... Lachy Hulme as Sparks in The Matrix Revolutions. ... Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (born April 4, 1979) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. ... Lord Asriel is a major character in Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials series. ... Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer. ... The trilogy (U.K versions), in order of succession from left to right. ... Daniel Wroughton Craig [1] (born 2 March 1968 [2] in Chester, England) is a BAFTA-nominated English actor best known as the sixth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the official film series from EON Productions. ...


Bettany has joined the New Line family fantasy Inkheart. He will join Brendan Fraser in the cast of the film and will play the part of a fire-eater named Dustfinger. [1] In computing, a newline is a special character or sequence of characters indicating the end of a line. ... Inkheart (original title: Tintenherz) is a young adult-child fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke about a girl named Meggie whose life changes dramatically when she realizes that her father, a bookbinder named Mortimer (Nicknamed Mo), has an unusual ability: when he reads aloud, he can bring characters from books into... Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Canadian-American actor. ... Dustfinger, also known as the fire-dancer, is a character in Cornelia Funkes Inkheart and Inkspell. ...


Personal life

On New Year's Day of 2003, Bettany married Jennifer Connelly in a Scottish ceremony attended by a small circle of friends and family. He moved to Brooklyn with Jennifer and her son Kai, and the couple welcomed their own son Stellan (named for Stellan Skarsgård) on August 5, 2003. Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former child model. ... Brooklyn (named after the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd (help· info) (born June 13, 1951, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish actor. ... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Awards and nominations

2005 Empire Awards Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Emap Consumer Media since July 1989. ...

  • Nominated, Best British Actor for Wimbledon

2005 Jordan Awards Wimbledon is a film released in September 2004. ...

2004 GQ Men of the Year Awards Wimbledon is a film released in September 2004. ... GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same...

  • Won, Actor of the Year

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  • Won, Best Actor

2004 BAFTA Awards BAFTA Award The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

2004 Broadcast Film Critics Association Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ... The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada, representing 199 television, radio and online critics. ...

2004 Evening Standard British Film Awards The Critics Choise Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. ... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ... Established in 1973 this film award is given to outstanding achievement in British film by the British newspaper Evening Standard. ...

2004 London Critics Circle Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ... The London Film Critics Circle is a department of The Critics Circle, started in 1913 as an association for working British critics. ...

2002 London Critics Circle Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ... The London Film Critics Circle is a department of The Critics Circle, started in 1913 as an association for working British critics. ...

2002 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards A Knights Tale (2001) is a film written and directed by Brian Helgeland which is very loosely based on The Knights Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. ... The Chicago Film Critics Association is an American film critic association. ...

  • Nominated, Most Promising Performer

2001 London Critics Circle The London Film Critics Circle is a department of The Critics Circle, started in 1913 as an association for working British critics. ...

2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards Gangster No. ... The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) is the labor union representing over 120,000 film actors in the United States. ...

2001 British Independent Film Awards The SAG Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film. ... A Beautiful Mind is a Academy Award-winning film inspired by the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. ... The British Independent Film Awards were created in 1998 to celebrate achievement in independently funded British movies. ...

Gangster No. ...

Selected filmography

Year Title Role Other notes
2007 Inkheart Dustfinger
2006 The Da Vinci Code Silas
2006 Firewall Bill Cox
2004 Wimbledon Peter Colt
2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Dr. Stephen Maturin
2003 The Reckoning Nicholas
2003 Dogville Tom Edison
2002 Euston Road "Y" Short film
2002 The Heart of Me Rickie
2001 A Beautiful Mind Charles Herman
2001 A Knight's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer
2000 Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) Jimmy
2000 The Suicide Club Shaw
2000 David Copperfield James Steerforth Television movie
2000 Dead Babies Quentin
2000 Gangster No. 1 Young Gangster
1999 Every Woman Knows a Secret Rob Television mini-series
1999 After the Rain Steph
1998 Coming Home Edward Carey-Lewis Television movie
1998 Killer Net Joe Hunter Television mini-series
1998 The Land Girls Philip
1997 Bent Captain
1997 Sharpe´s Waterloo Prince William of Orange Television movie-series

Films scheduled to be released in 2008 include: // LR: Limited release in select cities WR: Wide-release to theaters IMAX: Release to IMAX theaters 9 24 The A-Team Artemis Fowl Battle Royale Benighted The Brazilian Job Bubba Nosferatu and the Curse of the She-Vampires Caitlin Captain Underpants The... Inkheart is a 2007 film based on the 2005 Inkheart novel of the same name. ... // Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing... This article is about the film. ... // Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing... Firewall is a 2006 American action/thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. ... // Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2004; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2004. ... Categories: Stub | 2004 films ... // February 24 - The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 Cesar Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography. ... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ... // February 24 - The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 Cesar Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography. ... The Reckoning is a murder-mystery set during the medieval period. ... // February 24 - The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 Cesar Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography. ... Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård and James Caan, among others. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2002. ... Euston Road is an important thoroughfare in central London. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2002. ... For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey // August 8 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman get divorced. ... A Beautiful Mind is a Academy Award-winning film inspired by the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. ... For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey // August 8 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman get divorced. ... A Knights Tale (2001) is a film written and directed by Brian Helgeland which is very loosely based on The Knights Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... Summary David Copperfield 2000 was a joint US/Irish TV film adaptation of Charles Dickenss novel David Copperfield. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... Gangster No. ... // April 17 - Star Wars fans begin lining up at movie theaters in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. ... // April 17 - Star Wars fans begin lining up at movie theaters in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... The Land Girls is a 1998 movie directed by David Leland and starring Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, and Anna Friel. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1997. ... The term bent may refer to: Look up bent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1997. ... Sharpe is a series of TV movies based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell featuring the character of Richard Sharpe focusing on his adventures in the Napoleonic Wars. ... William II, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (William Frederick George Louis) (December 6, 1792 – March 17, 1849) ruled from October 7, 1840 until his death. ...

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Bettany's maternal grandmother, the daughter of a Nottinghamshire pub landlady, moved to the States in the Thirties, where she married a pianist (later a promoter) and enjoyed a career in musical theatre.
Paul claims that, as his mother had long ago retired and his father was a drama teacher, he never felt pushed or even drawn towards a life in acting.
Bettany, who researched the part by hanging out with Butch Reynolds, architect of the Great Train Robbery, was superb as the nattily dressed bully-boy who, in one horrific scene, carefully takes off his Saville Row suit so he won't spoil it as he's chopping and sawing one of his victims to pieces.
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Paul Bettany (born May 27, 1971) is an English actor most famous for his roles as Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale, Charles in A Beautiful Mind, Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Peter Colt in Wimbledon and as Silas in The Da Vinci Code.
Bettany was born in Harlesden, London, to Thane Bettany, a drama teacher and actor, and Anne Kettle, a school secretary.
Bettany was rumored to be in the running for the role of the Joker in the next Batman movie, contending for it against numerous other high-profile actors, such as Crispin Glover, Adrien Brody, Johnny Depp, Lachy Hulme, and others; however, it has been confirmed by studio sources that Heath Ledger has won the coveted role.
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