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  1. Paapa Kwaakye Essiedu (/ ˈ p ɑː p ə ˌ ɛ s i ˈ eɪ d uː / [3] [4]) (born 1990) is a British actor. [5] He started his career in 2012 when he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company acting in numerous production including The Merry Wives of Windsor (2012), King Lear (2014), Hamlet (2016), and Romeo and Juliet (2016).

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    Paapa Essiedu was born on 11 June 1990 in Walthamstow, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for I May Destroy You (2020), The Outrun (2024) and Men (2022).

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    • Walthamstow, London, England, UK
  3. Whether it’s unflinching, Emmy-winning television, a masterful one-man show on the West End or confronting and thought-provoking film, Mr Paapa Essiedu is the actor who can do it all.

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  5. Nov 9, 2023 · Essiedu picked up Emmy and BAFTA nominations for his haunting portrayal of Kwame, a fitness instructor who is raped by a stranger he meets on Grindr.

    • Nick Levine
  6. Aug 6, 2024 · For the 34-year-old actor, his artistry and politics are explicitly connected. He talks to Shannon Mahanty about challenging injustice and on and off-screen love stories.

    • Shannon Mahanty
  7. Jun 15, 2023 · Raised in Walthamstow by his late mother, Paapa Kwaakye Essiedu had been a football-playing, ‘not particularly gregarious or attention-seeking child’ when an impulsive decision to join a school...

  8. Jul 20, 2020 · Paapa Essiedu: ‘Drama school was a confusing place to be black – I played people who murdered my own ancestors’. The ‘I May Destroy You’ star has broken through as Arabella’s gay friend Kwame but...