Paul Hilton

Paul Hilton is an English actor who works across stage, radio and television, and who trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama after growing up in Oldham, Lancashire. He moved to London on graduating and built a wide-ranging career, with television parts in Garrow's Law, The Bill, Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders and True Dare Kiss, and a long-running role since 2008 as William Palmer, or Pilgrim, in the BBC Radio 4 drama Pilgrim. On film he appeared as Mr Earnshaw Senior in Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights (2011) and as Alexander in Lady Macbeth (2016), and he had a part in Klimt (2006). His theater work includes the title role in Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe and E. M. Forster in The Inheritance, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony in 2020. He was later nominated for an Olivier Award for An Enemy of the People.