Paul Mescal

Paul Mescal interests me because he arrived through emotion rather than spectacle. Television made him a star by asking him to do the hardest thing on camera — be quietly, visibly vulnerable — and he won a BAFTA for it. Since then his choices have been admirably stubborn: intimate films that trade on stillness, theatre work that keeps his instrument sharp, and only then the blockbuster swing. He is proof that the old route — drama training, Dublin stages, patience — still produces the most interesting screen actors. I suspect his best work is a decade away, and that is a thrilling thought.

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Name (English)

Paul Mescal

Name (Japanese)

ポール・メスカル

Reading

ぽーる・めすかる

Born

February 2, 1996 (age 30)

Origin

Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland

Height

180 cm

Occupation

stage actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

University

Trinity College, Dublin

Awards & achievements

• 2021 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/paul.mescal/
• Xhttps://x.com/mescal_paul
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Mescal
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73367368

Tags

• County Kildare
• stage actor
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.