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Paapa Essiedu

July 2024

  • Astonishing … Paapa Essiedu as Delroy in Death of England: Delroy at @sohoplace, London.

    Death of England: The Plays review – Brexit-voting bailiff electrifies this post-Boris revamp

  • crop of a portrait of Paapa Esseidu wearing a sky blue jacket and holding a long-stemmed white rose

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Paapa Essiedu: ‘Is this part harder than Hamlet? Yeah, it’s different gravy, mate’

December 2023

  • Paapa Essiedu in a beanie hat and duffle coat, Melissa McCarthy almost unrecognisable in glasses, straight blond wig, turban hat and bright pink and turquoise fluffy coat

    Genie review – soulless Richard Curtis New York festive caper

    Melissa McCarthy’s 2,000 year-old genie grapples with modernity while granting wishes galore to home alone dad Paapa Essiedu in this blandest of festive comedies

November 2023

  • Joaquin Phoenix in Beau Is Afraid

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Beau Is Afraid to Belfast: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Joaquin Phoenix goes on an extremely weird road trip, and Kenneth Branagh goes back to his childhood in an intensely personal account of the Troubles
  • Completely subdued … Melissa McCarthy in Genie.

    Genie review – seasonal Richard Curtis comedy can’t save Christmas for anyone

    This bafflingly bland offering wastes the talents of Melissa McCarthy and Paapa Essiedu – it’s as if they removed the laughs in case they offend
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    The Q&A
    Paapa Essiedu: ‘Which living person do I most despise? Suella Braverman’

    The actor on a hair-raising brush with death, his terrible singing, and what love really feels like

August 2023

  • Paapa Essiedu (Tristan) and Taylor Russell (Connie) in The Effect at the National Theatre.

    The Effect review – Lucy Prebble’s intense and intoxicating encounter

    A love affair between two participants in a drug trial is staged by Jamie Lloyd with a stellar cast including Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell

September 2022

  • Holliday Grainger as DCI Rachel Carey and Paapa Essiedu as Isaac Turner in BBC One’s The Capture.

    ‘Spooks meets Black Mirror’: how The Capture became the year’s most wildly compelling TV show

    This conspiracy thriller’s second series is packed with devastating cliffhangers, mind-boggling plots and a brilliant cast. No wonder it’s so addictive

August 2022

  • ‘Espionage hokum’ … Holliday Grainger as DI Rachel Carey and Paapa Essiedu as Isaac Turner in The Capture

    The Capture series two review – implausible, daft and thoroughly gripping

    Conspiracy theories and Chinese spies abound as Holliday Grainger and Paapa Essiedu star in the return of the slightly silly TV thriller

June 2022

  • The Lazarus Project

    TV review
    The Lazarus Project review – Paapa Essiedu thrills in fun, stylish brain-scrambler

  • The Lazarus Project, The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life.

    It’s Groundhog Day … again! Why TV can’t get enough of time-loops

  • Head shot of actor Paapa Essiedu

    Paapa Essiedu on grief, doubt and fury at Boris Johnson: ‘Bigotry is the backbone of his character’

  • Paapa Essiedu and Michaela Coel at the Emmy awards

    Top drama school apologises to Paapa Essiedu and Michaela Coel for ‘appalling’ racism

February 2022

  • Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu in A Number.

    A Number review – Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu scintillate as father and sons

    The powerhouse duo’s effortless chemistry and emotional realism brings Caryl Churchill’s cloning tragedy blazing into new life

January 2022

  • Daniel Craig and Michael Gambon in A Number

    Sons, fathers and clones: Caryl Churchill’s A Number – in pictures

    A father is confronted by three sons – two of whom are clones of the first – in Churchill’s classic play, which has a 20th-anniversary revival at the Old Vic this month

March 2021

  • Hold on tightly and let go lightly ... Kenneth Rea (blue top) teaching.

    How to become an outstanding actor: tips from Kenneth Rea, teacher to the stars

    The mentor to some of Britain’s top performers believes the best acting comes from a childhood sense of playfulness – and is fraught with danger

December 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Death of England, The Outside Dog, Pass Over, Oleanna and Crave.

    Best culture 2020
    A dramatic year: the 10 best theatre shows of 2020

  • Composite of actors Paapa Essiedu (left) and Lennie James

    Real talk: a conversation special
    Lennie James meets Paapa Essiedu: ‘I was probably in the last wave of actors who needed to go to the US’

August 2020

  • Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) in the RSC’s 1992 production at the Barbican in London.

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Method and madness: Branagh, Rylance and Rickman as Hamlet – in pictures

    In a new series, we delve into Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s amazing archive of stage photos. This week: Hamlet, as played by actors including Damian Lewis, Paapa Essiedu and Michelle Terry

July 2020

  • Emile Ruddock, Idriss Kargbo, Ian Carlyle and Dex Lee in a 2017 production of Five Guys Named Moe by Clarke Peters

    Black Theatre Collective calls for industry reform – not 'empty gestures'

    Newly formed group sends open letter to UK theatres , suggesting five measures to make the industry more inclusive
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