
Paul Copley
0 FOLLOWERS • 51 CREDITS • NOV 25, 1944 • 80
Biography
Paul is a long established and much respected British actor and voiceover artist.
Born in Denby Dale, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 25th November 1944 he grew up beside a dairy farm. His father, Harold, was involved with local amateur dramatic productions, as were the rest of his family. He went to Penistone Grammar School, then the Northern Counties College of Education in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he received an Associate of the Drama Board (ADB) in Drama. He taught English and Drama in Walthamstow, before he joined the Leeds Playhouse Theatre-in-education Company in 1971.
In 1976, Paul won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a New Play for his role in John Wilson's For King and Country.
With many and varied roles to follow, Paul soon established himself as one of the UK's leading stage, film, television and radio actors.
In 2011-2015 Paul gained worldwide recognition appearing in 16 episodes of the hugely popular television series Downton Abbey playing the popular role of farmer Mr Mason.
Paul is married to the actress Natasha Pyne. They married in 1972, after both performing in a Leeds Playhouse production of Frank Wedekind's Lulu, adapted by Peter Barnes, directed by Bill Hays in 1971.
Known For

Heartbeat

Midsomer Murders

Casualty

The Royal

Waking the Dead

Call the Midwife

Moving On

The Paradise Club

Silent Witness

Father Brown

BBC Play of the Month

Downton Abbey

The Coroner

Secret Army

Dalziel & Pascoe

Tenko

Vera

DI Ray

New Tricks

Clocking Off

The Street

Life on Mars

Messiah

Nice Guy Eddie

Inspector George Gently

Harry

Queer as Folk

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Code of a Killer

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Silas Marner

Enola Holmes

The Remains of the Day

The Shadow in the North

Speech Day

Burn It

Broken

Last Tango in Halifax

Jude

Ghost in the Water

A Christmas Carol

Bird Fancier

The Lakes

Arnhem: The Story of an Escape

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Roughnecks

Johnny and the Bomb

Diane

Rose Ayling-Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks

Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork

Cries from a Watchtower
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