Paul Mescal

Paul Mescal is an Irish actor who trained at The Lir Academy and began his career in Dublin theater. Born in 1996 and raised in Maynooth, he played Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby at the Gate Theatre before his television breakthrough as Connell Waldron in Normal People (2020), which won him the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor and brought an Emmy nomination. He made his feature film debut in The Lost Daughter (2021), then starred as a troubled father in Aftersun (2022), earning a nomination in the Best Actor category at the Academy Awards. He appeared in God's Creatures (2022), All of Us Strangers (2023), and Foe (2023), and took a lead role in Gladiator II (2024). His films also include The History of Sound (2025) and Hamnet (2025), where he played William Shakespeare. On stage, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.