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Paul Bettany
Paul Bettany is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the Disney+ series WandaVision (2021), which garnered him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Born 27 May 1971 · Q242707
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If a director wants to give me a job, I sometimes ask them to screen-test me. Then they can't sort of blame me if they're not getting what they wanted later on. It's like, "You fucking hired me; you saw what you were getting.
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2026· 3 entries
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘It’s fun to go to war with God’: Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany on their sweaty, sacrilegious take on Amadeus
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Paul Bettany: having Johnny Depp texts read aloud in libel trial was ‘an unpleasant feeling’
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The Guardian: 'Weird is good': Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen on superhero sitcom WandaVision
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2020· 3 entries
The Guardian: Uncle Frank review – top form Paul Bettany lifts phony Alan Ball drama
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Bettany was announced to portray businessman Alexander Nix in a feature film about the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, to be produced by AGBO with a script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
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During Depp's defamation trial against The Sun and in 2022 as part of Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard
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2014· 1 entry
Bettany starred alongside Johnny Depp and fellow British actor Rebecca Hall in the feature film Transcendence
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2011· 2 entries
“If a director wants to give me a job, I sometimes ask them to screen-test me. Then they can't sort of blame me if they're not getting what they wanted later on. It's like, "You fucking hired me; you saw what you were getting.”
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“Because it doesn't happen like this, where we're having an interview and it sort of turns into a conversation--and a quite gratifying one, because it's all about me.”
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2010· 1 entry
Bettany appeared alongside Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist and portrayed the archangel Michael in Legion, a film depicting divine vengeance upon humanity
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2009· 1 entry
Appeared as Charles Darwin in Creation, starring opposite his own wife Jennifer Connelly
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2008· 1 entry
Appeared in the New Line Cinema family fantasy Inkheart, playing the part of a fire-eater named Dustfinger
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2007· 1 entry
Bettany went to London to star in There For Me, written by his friends Dan Fredenburgh and Doraly Rosen
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Empire Award for Best British Actor for Wimbledon (2005).
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1990· 1 entry
At the age of 19, Bettany began a three-year course at the Drama Centre London in Chalk Farm
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1971· 1 entry
Born 1971-05-27.
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