Paterson Joseph
Biography
Paterson Joseph is an English actor and writer born in Willesden Green, Middlesex. After training at Studio '68 of Theatre Arts and LAMDA, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where his 1990 performances in King Lear and Love's Labour's Lost brought him second prize at the 1991 Ian Charleson Awards. His stage credits include Othello, Brutus in the RSC's Julius Caesar set in Africa, and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic. On television he has appeared in Casualty, Peep Show, Green Wing, Survivors, Law & Order: UK, the HBO series The Leftovers, and the NBC series Timeless. His film work began with Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father and includes The Beach (2000), Greenfingers (2000), Æon Flux (2005), The Other Man (2008), and Wonka (2023). His debut novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) won the 2023 Christopher Bland Prize, and he became Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.
62years old
Turns 63 on June 22in 252 days
- Born Willesden
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 26 years2000 to 2026
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Behind the camera
Joseph wrote and performed a solo play, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance, based on the life of Ignatius Sancho, which was staged in Oxford and Birmingham in 2015 and then toured the US starting in October.
Behind the camera
In 2004, Joseph took on a project for a Channel 4 documentary called My Shakespeare. He directed Romeo & Juliet with 20 young non-actors from Harlesden, a deprived part of London.
Early training
Joseph began his training from 1983 to 1985 with Robert Henderson at the Studio '68 of Theatre Arts in London, then went on to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Behind the award
The 2023 Christopher Bland Prize, given by the Royal Society of Literature, went to Paterson Joseph for The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho, the first novel he wrote.
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