
Quite apart from all of those things, I was missing the person who at the time was the most important person to me. You feel like you are harbouring some dreadful secret about what life is actually like. Not only do you lose that immediately and see the fragility and the precariousness of your own position but you also feel totally alienated from all of your friends. First, it devastated my parents, obviously and, second, it happened to my sister and me at a time when you are supposed to feel that sort of crazy, almost narcissistic confidence as a 16 or 17 year old, feeling that you are somehow indestructible. I was 16 and that was the end of family life from that point, as often happens in families where's there's a death of a child. My brother's death, when he was eight years old, blew the family apart. She died a couple of years ago and I live in America now and I got the news that she had become really quite sick, so I called up to speak to her and she said, "Well, goodness me, I am getting a lot of phone calls, I wonder what this could be all about?" and I thought, she went out with a joke. She was firmly of the opinion that children should be seen and not heard, and I sort of adored her.

They'd moved away and became expats in Spain and then something went wrong and they came back to live with us in our house. My grandmother was the matriarch of the family. I didn't really talk to my parents about much so I'm hard pushed to say what values they instilled. We moved into a house tied to a girls' public boarding school in Hertfordshire in exquisite grounds, but the fantasy of being a teenage boy living next to a girls' school didn't really live up to the reality, in that you fall between boyfriend material and bit of rough and you're sort of, "the staff's son" – you're neither fish nor fowl. I shared a bedroom with my older sister for a long time, then my parents had a third child, my brother, so my dad decided he wanted to move out of London. It was like being born into a different era. We used to live in a little railway cottage with an outside toilet. Triviaīrian Helgeland, writer/director of A Knight’s Tale, wrote the part of Chaucer specifically for Paul, and fought the productions companies to get him.My mum and dad were teachers and I was brought up in Willesden in London. Most recently Paul has appeared entered the Star Wars Universe as Dryden Vos in Solo: A Star Wars Story, and landed the starring role in Amazon Original Movie, Uncle Frank.
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He has since appeared in a total of 7 Marvel Cinematic Movies, 5 as JARVIS and 3 as Vision, including Avengers: Age of Ultron where he played a dual role as both characters, and can now be seen in his own series for Disney+, WandaVision.
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Since then he has continued to work appearing in TV shows such as Killer Net, and as Steeforth in David Copperfield, before moving mainly into movies, appearing a A Knight’s Tale, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Beautiful Mind, Wimbledon and The Da Vinci Code before landing the voice role of JARVIS in Iron Man in 2008. Paul made his on screen debut with guest spots on UK TV shows, Wycliffe, The Bill, and Sharpe, before making his film debut alongside Clive Owen, Jude Law and Ian McKellen in Bent. Paul started his acting career in the theatre, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and appearing in productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. After that worked in a care home for the elderly for a year before enrolling at the Drama Centre in London, where he studied for three years. After the death of his younger brother when Paul was 16, he dropped out of school and left home, earning a living by busking in London for two years. Paul spent his early years in North West London until the family moved to Hertfordshire where his father had a job teaching at an all-girls school. He as an older sister, Sarah, who is a writer and had a younger brother, Matthew, who died in childhood. Both his parents, and his maternal grandmother were also actors.


Paul Bettany was born in Harlesden, London to Thane Bettany and Anne Kettle.
