Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany

Date of Birth: 27 May 1971

Country: UK

Biography: Paul William Bettany is an English actor. Appearing in a wide variety of films, he has been nominated for BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Awards. 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, these included Joe Penhall's Love and Understanding, which played at London's Flatbush Theatre and then ran in Connecticut...(Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 44 (Actor), 1 (Director), 1 (Writer)

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    A Beautiful Mind
    A human drama about the struggle of a true genius, inspired by events in the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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    Dogville
    The beautiful fugitive Grace arrives in the isolated Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them.
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    Gangster No. 1
    The brutal, mesmerizing story of a deadly battle of wills between a gangland leader and his apprentice, a young man who emulates him to the point of psychosis and beyond. (IFC Films)
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    The Heart of Me
    Upper crust England before, during and after WWII provides the backdrop for The Heart of Me, a richly emotional drama about the seductive -- and destructive -- nature of passion. (ThinkFilm)
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    A Knight\
    Set in medieval times, this is the oddball, sometimes awe-inspiring story of a rookie (Ledger) discovering if he is the stuff of which legends are made. (Columbia Pictures)
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    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Based on author Patrick O'Brian's series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the film is set during the Napoleonic Wars. Crowe is Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy, and Bettany is ship's doctor Stephen Maturin. Their ship, the H.M.S. Surprise, is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. (20th Century Fox)
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    The Reckoning
    This murder mystery, set in the Middle Ages, is steeped in moral dilemmas about the power of art, the temptations of evil and the search for justice that continue to haunt us in modern times. (Paramount Classics)
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    Wimbledon
    A sweet and funny tale of romance across the net between an unlucky wild card player and an American star at Wimbledon.
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    Firewall
    With his family held for ransom, the head security executive for a global bank is commanded to loot his own business for millions in order to ensure his wife and children's safety. He then faces the demanding task of thwarting the kidnapper's grand scheme, which makes him look guilty of embezzlement. (imdb)
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    Bent
    Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays) (imdb)
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    The Da Vinci Code
    Based on Dan Brown's popular and controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code begins with a spectacular murder in the Louvre Museum. All clues point to a covert religious organization that will stop at nothing to protect a secret that threatens to overturn 2,000 years of accepted dogma. (Sony)
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    Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
    Felix is a hit-man who wants out of the business. He takes up a job to look after a reclusive man named Bubba who is like a giant kid, he doesn't understand people and doesn't know much, never having seen the outside world before. But Felix has bigger problems. He wants to patch up his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, and he's being targeted by his old colleagues who are not letting him get away from his past so easily. (from Wikipedia)
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    Iron Man
    When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil. (imdb)
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    Killer Net
    Killer Net (1998) - TV Mini-Series
    Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection? (Imdb)
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    Dogville Confessions
    Documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's Dogville. Combines interviews with footage shot on location in winter-covered Sweden. From 'boxes of truth' (specially made like Catholic confessionals), all actors and Von Trier talked, cried, laughed, sung and confessed directly to the camera during shooting. Also contains deleted scenes from the feature film. The footage covers everything from idea to premiere. (imdb)
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    The Secret Life of Bees
    Set in South Carolina in 1964, the film is the moving tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping, honey and the Black Madonna.
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    Inkheart
    Mo has the special talent to bring characters out of books. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta, two villains, and Dustfinger, a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Meggie discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. (imdb)
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    Sharpe\
    Sharpe is assigned to the Prince of Orange's staff, and is rejoined with Sgt. Harper (retired) and riflemen Hagman and Harris at the famous battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. (imdb)
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    The Young Victoria
    A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert (imdb)
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    Stories of Lost Souls
    Six short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome. (imdb)
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    Creation
    The story behind one of the biggest ideas of all time, and its troubled father.
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    Dead Babies
    Based on the novel by Martin Amis, Dead Babies follows a group of friends who gather in a large estate in the country and begin to receive death threats.
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    Legion
    An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
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    Iron Man 2
    Wealthy inventor and former weapons maker Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) continues to fight crime as his alter ego, Iron Man, taking on villains intent on destroying humanity in Jon Favreau's action-packed superhero sequel based on Marvel comic book characters. But Stark's battle with the bottle may be his toughest challenge yet. Don Cheadle co-stars as Col. James Rhodes, with Samuel L. Jackson reprising his role as Nick Fury.
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    The Land Girls
    During World War II, a new regiment called "Land Girls" was formed in England for recruiting women to work at farms where men left to go to war. Three women of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue and Cambridge graduate Ag join the Land Girls. (imdb)
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    The Tourist
    Watery, enchanted Venice provides the setting for this thriller starring Johnny Depp as an American tourist seeking solace there for his shattered heart -- only to find it in danger once again after encountering a beautiful Interpol agent (Angelina Jolie). Little does the poor Yank know that the artful agent has gone to great lengths to arrange their "chance" meeting and is using him to trap a criminal who also happens to be her ex-lover.
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    Margin Call
    A thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
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    Priest
    A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece. (imdb)
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    Iron Man 3
    When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, Stark starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. (imdb)
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    Blood
    Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed. (imdb)
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    Transcendence
    A terminally ill scientist downloads his mind into a computer. This grants him power beyond his wildest dreams, and soon he becomes unstoppable. (imdb)
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    Coming Home
    Coming Home (1998) - TV Movie
    Drama series about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2. (imdb)
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    Mortdecai
    Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. (imdb)
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    Avengers: Age of Ultron
    When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to the Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans. (imdb)
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    Legend
    Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1950s and 1960s. (imdb)
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    Captain America: Civil War
    Political interference in the Avengers' activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. (imdb)
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    Manhunt
    Manhunt (2017) - TV Series
    An in-depth look at how an FBI profiler helped track down the Unabomber. (imdb)
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    Journey\
    RC Sherriff's Journey's End is the seminal British play about WW1. Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously awaiting their fate. (imdb)
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    Solo: A Star Wars Story
    During an adventure into a dark criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future copilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion. (imdb)
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    Uncle Frank
    In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid. (imdb)
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    WandaVision
    WandaVision (2021) - TV Mini-Series
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    What If...?
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    A Very British Scandal
    The story of events surrounding the notorious divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll during the 1960s.
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    Here
    An original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form. (imdb)
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