Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson Biography

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Paul Anderson is an English actor of film and stage. He came to prominence for portraying Arthur Shelby in Peaky Blinders and Sebastian Moran in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

Career

Anderson decided to pursue acting in the mid-2000s after working for many years as a ticket scalper and aspiring musician and enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He began his acting career by appearing in plays written by friend Gregory Burke, in whose critically acclaimed debut film '71 was released in 2014. He had his first leading role in the 2009 British movie The Firm. Anderson's break came when, in 2013, he was cast as a main character in the BBC Two show Peaky Blinders as Arthur Shelby, a mentally-ill gangster in post-World War I Birmingham. Since then, Anderson has appeared in many major films including Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea and The Revenant, as well as Brimstone, which was released in 2016.

Personal life

Anderson is from South London.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Engaged to Kill	Hunter
2008	Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me	Roger
2009	The Firm	Bex
2010	The Basement	Jake
2011	A Lonely Place to Die	Chris
2011	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	Colonel Sebastian Moran
2012	Piggy	Piggy
2012	The Sweeney	Allen
2012	Passion	Dirk
2014	'71	Sergeant Leslie Lewis
2014	Electricity	Barry O'Connor
2015	Legend	Albert Donoghue
2015	In the Heart of the Sea	Caleb Chappel
2015	The Revenant	Anderson
2016	Brimstone	Frank
2017	Hostiles
2018	Robin Hood		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Pink Serenade	Jeremy Fischer
2005	Doctor Who	Jason	Episode: "The Christmas Invasion"
2007	Silent Witness	DS Dave Leeson	2 episodes
2008	Ashes to Ashes	PC Murder Suspect	Episode: 1.8
2008	Lewis	Frank Sporetti	Episode: "Wild Justice"
2009	Midsomer Murders	Graham Spate	Episode: "The Black Book"
2011	The Promise	Seargeant Frank Nash	TV Mini-Series
2011	Lewis	Alistair Darlow	Episode: "Wild Justice"
2013	Top Boy	Mike	3 episodes
2013	The Great Train Robbery	Gordon Goody	TV Mini-Series
2013-present	Peaky Blinders	Arthur Shelby	Main character

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