Actors

Paul Gerrard

Paul Gerrard

Born to Margaret and James Gerrard in Manchester, UK, in 1967. His family moved to London when Paul was 8 months old; the youngest of 5 children, 3 half-sisters and 1 full sister. From early days, Paul mixed an avid participation in competitive sport with a passion for performing arts. He studied a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Sport at De Montford University UK, gaining a double first with hons, in 1993. During development of his acting training at The Court Theatre Company, London, in 1995, he played the title role in Agamemnon. This was followed by Paul Hickman in John Godber's autobiographical play Salt of the Earth and Antigonus/Florizel in The Winter's Tale. His theatre credits include: Creon, in Antigone, at the Crucible studio, UK; Robbie in Girl's Night Out, in a Number One National UK tour and on London's West End stage; The Tenant in an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, staged at The Theatre Royal, Bath, and Number One UK venues; and as a soldier in Sir Peter Hall's production of Julius Caesar at the RSC Barbican, London. Aside from his passion for theatre, Paul has over 2000 hours of live presenting credits, on UK national television. Other credits include Holby City for the BBC, and a range of characters in several award winning short-films. Paul's full credits and film-clips can be viewed at paulgerrard.com.au Following his first visit to Australia in 2007, Paul returned to live in Sydney in 2009, enjoying the sunshine and not missing London's rain. From 2010 - 2012, Paul trained at NIDA in screen-acting and has since played several television and film roles. In 2014, he co-founded Brief Candle Productions Company with fellow artist, Amanda Collins. See: briefcandleproductions.com. The company's inaugural production was the stage play, John Patrick Shanley's, Four Dogs and a Bone, directed by Kate Gaul. In 2015 Paul played the Devil in an animated short, That Dirty Rotten Spot and will be creating the role of David Price in the feature, A Recurrence.
Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over twenty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella Man (2005), The Illusionist (2006), and San Andreas (2015). Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti was born June 6, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, and is the youngest of three children. His mother, the former Toni Marilyn Smith, was an actress before marrying. His father, Bart Giamatti (Angelo Bartlett Giamatti), was a professor of Renaissance Literature at Yale University, and went on to become the university's youngest president (in 1986, Bart was appointed president of baseball's National League. He became Commissioner of Baseball on April 1, 1989 and served for five months until his untimely death on September 1, 1989. He was commissioner at the time Pete Rose was banned from the game). Paul's father also wrote six books. Paul's older brother, Marcus Giamatti, is also an actor. His sister, Elena, designs jewelry. His ancestry is Italian (from his paternal grandfather), German, English, Dutch, Scottish, and Irish. Paul graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall prep school, majored in English at Yale, and obtained his Master's Degree in Fine Arts, with his major in drama from the Yale University School of Drama. His acting roots are in theatre, from his college days at Yale, to regional productions (Seattle, San Diego and Williamstown, Massachusetts), to Broadway.