Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Essiedu

After graduating from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Londoner and Emmy nominee Paapa won the 2016 Ian Charleson Award for his title role in 'Hamlet' for the RSC. Since then he has gone from strength to strength, appearing in hit BBC drama ‘Press’ as Ed Washburn and in the amazing ‘The Convert’ at The Young Vic Theatre alongside our Ivanno Jeremiah. He has recently starred in two massive hit shows as two hugely different characters, the eerily calm gang-member Alexander Dumani in ‘Gangs of London’ and the fitness guru male lead Kwame in the award-winning 'I May Destroy You'. 

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After graduating from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Londoner and Emmy nominee Paapa won the 2016 Ian Charleson Award for his title role in 'Hamlet' for the RSC. Since then he has gone from strength to strength, appearing in hit BBC drama ‘Press’ as Ed Washburn and in the amazing ‘The Convert’ at The Young Vic Theatre alongside our Ivanno Jeremiah. He has recently starred in two massive hit shows as two hugely different characters, the eerily calm gang-member Alexander Dumani in ‘Gangs of London’ and the fitness guru male lead Kwame in the award-winning 'I May Destroy You'. 

TV:
I May Destroy You | Press | Kiri | Gangs of London
Theatre:
Pass Over | The Convert | Hamlet | King Lear

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