Paul Shelley

Paul Shelley is an English actor who trained at RADA and has spent much of his career in classical theater, especially with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Born in Leeds, he has also appeared often in the West End. On television he played the dual leads of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1980) and Major Nicholas Bradley in Secret Army (1978 to 1979), with later roles in Inspector Morse (1990), Midsomer Murders (2009) and Doctors (2010). His films include Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Polanski's Macbeth (1971) and God's Outlaw (1986). On stage he played Duncan in Rupert Goold's Macbeth, which critics praised at Chichester in 2007 before runs in the West End and New York, and took leading roles at Shakespeare's Globe. He is also an audiobook narrator who has recorded about thirty titles and won the Audiofile Earphones Award three times.