“At the beginning of my career I was not great. Even at the beginning of Breaking Bad – I was OK, I got the job. But I grew so much as an actor. Everyone saw it.”
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Aaron Paul
Aaron Paul is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). He went on to reprise the role in the Netflix sequel film El Camino (2019) and during the final season of spin-off series Better Call Saul (2022).
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entertainment · American actor (born 1979) · actor · television actor · film actor · voice actor · film producer · television producer · executive producer · also Aaron Paul, Aaron Paul Sturtevant, Paul
Born 27 August 1979 · Q302491
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2026· 5 entries
“t learn that until series creator Vince Gilligan called him over one day during lunch. Sponsor Message”
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“my head actually comes into contact with the opening of a wooden screen door,”
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“And I catch it, and my entire body spins around and splits the door into a million pieces and I landed flat on my head and chest. The scene continues to go on because [everyone] thinks I was just acting, but in reality, I was just completely out of it and I don”
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Paul was cast in the upcoming third season of the Amazon Prime Video series Fallout
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2025· 2 entries
Paul voiced Powerplex in the sixth episode of the third season of Invincible, "All I Can Say Is I'm Sorry"
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Lent his voice to the protagonist, Robert Robertson III, in the video game Dispatch
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2023· 1 entry
Paul starred in a main role in the third episode of the sixth series of Black Mirror, "Beyond the Sea"
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Pretty Tone”.
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2019· 5 entries
“so proud to represent that community... it”
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Paul stated that he was "so proud to represent that community
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Paul reprised his role as Jesse Pinkman in the Netflix Film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, a sequel to the television series Breaking Bad
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Paul attended the launch event for The Promise Armenian Institute Event at UCLA in support of Armenian studies and human rights, alongside other high-profile stars like Kim Kardashian and Christian Bale
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Paul and Cranston released their own line of mezcal called Dos Hombres
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2018· 1 entry
Paul joined the cast of the HBO science fiction western series Westworld for the third season, portraying the character Caleb Nichols
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2016· 3 entries
Released album “Open Water”.
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Paul played the young Louis Drax's father who becomes the focus of a criminal investigation after his son has a near-fatal fall in The 9th Life of Louis Drax, a supernatural thriller based on a book of the same name
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Paul began playing Eddie Lane, a man who in a life crisis joins a cult but subsequently questions his faith, in the Hulu series The Path
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Breaking Bad (2014).
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Co-starred in the biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, portraying the Hebrew prophet Joshua
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Paul starred in Need for Speed, as a street racer recently released from prison who takes revenge on a wealthy business associate
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2013· 3 entries
With musicians Foster the People and John Mayer performing
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Paul helped organize a contest to raise $1
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Was featured on Zen Freeman's dance song, "Dance Bitch"
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Breaking Bad (2012).
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And 2013, he made appearances on Tron: Uprising, voicing a character named Cyrus
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Breaking Bad (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014; he won the award in 2010, 2012, and 2014
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2008· 1 entry
Began playing Jesse Pinkman on the AMC series Breaking Bad
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2007· 1 entry
Had a recurring role as Scott Quittman on the HBO series Big Love (2006–2011), and in 2009, he starred in the remake of The Last House on the Left
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1997· 1 entry
From Centennial High School in Boise, Idaho, after which he drove to Los Angeles in his 1982 Toyota Corolla with his mother and $6,000 in savings
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1996· 1 entry
Paul went to Los Angeles for the International Modeling and Talent Association competition
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1979· 2 entries
The youngest of four children born to Darla (née Haynes) and Baptist minister Robert Sturtevant
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Born 1979-08-27.
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